# Constantly increasing memory when scanning library

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/constantly-increasing-memory-when-scanning-library/895097>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [November 11, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/constantly-increasing-memory-when-scanning-library/895097 "2024-11-11T02:57:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartynK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MartynK](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MartynK)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/constantly-increasing-memory-when-scanning-library/895097/1 "2024-11-11T02:57:05Z")

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Server Version#: 1.41.1.9057

It seems every time my server runs a library scan, the memory usage of PMS is raising.  
I had not looked at the server until the other day and it had used over 15gb memory.  
I rebooted the PC, restarted the server last night and by this morning its already up to 512mb.  
The server is doing a lot of indexing at the moment as I am re-encoding a lot of my library, so indexing is happening a lot. I have also noticed that the scanning of TV is very slow compared to the scanning of films on the same storage.

Anyone with any ideas, not sure where to look.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/constantly-increasing-memory-when-scanning-library/895097/2 "2025-02-09T02:57:15Z")

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