CPU usage won't go below 30%

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.19.3.2764

CPU won’t go below 30+%, even when nothing is being played.
I have 2 other servers and they don’t exhibit this behavior.

I have uploaded my logs from the troubled server and it shows the same message over and over.

Plex Media Server Logs_2020-05-11_10-06-15.zip (6.1 MB)

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Here is a screenshot

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I can’t see anything in that log to match the CPU usage. Have you checked the Window’s resource monitor to see what application is doing that. Could be a the scanner or a stray plugin.

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Here is task manager

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and here is resource monitor

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You might have solved it for me with your comment about plugins. There were 2 plugins from a long time ago that I was playing with, but never really used them. I deleted them and rebooted and now my CPU is “flat-lining”, which in this case is a good thing.

I will monitor for a while and see if that was it.

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Interesting. Plugins run through the python runner so it would show that. I wonder if it’s just PMS trying to load one of those plugins and getting stuck in a loop. Mind sharing what plugins they were?

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One was Export Tools, and the other one was Web “something”

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That might have been WebTools. If you keep both of them updated, they should still be able to work, without causing the unusual CPU load.

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Thanks for the info.
Are you aware of any tool that can export the following:

  1. The total view count of each item by all users. I want to see if I have stuff that no one has ever watched so I can delete it.
  2. The items that have been watched by a specific user. I have 3 servers and I want to load balance them, but if I switch a user to another server, then it doesn’t know what they have watched.

It’s been too many years since I did any SQL work to figure out the correct query of the database to figure this out.

Thanks.