Curious if PMS hits a wall to the amount of content on a person’s server. I just did a new fresh install on a docker with UnRaid and the dashboard doesn’t come up anymore. With 24tb of data, the dashboard doesn’t seem to show up at all but I can still stream my content.
Hey, To my knowledge there is no limit I know people with more than 24TB of data and no issues, do you get any errors on your plex web app?
The app still works on my devices except the Roku stick.
I’m closing in on 16TB and I’m noticing the dashboard more often than not pukes on the web app. My guess is that it would greatly benefit from having the Plex database sitting on an SSD, as it seems to be timing out.
I noticed this entry in the log, several hundred times.
“Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB”
To add a data point: I am nearing 35tb of data and I have zero problems as far as accessing any of my content or playing it or adding to it.
The following pertains mainly to large libraries.
I believe that many of measures people take like SSDs etc are really unnecessary in most cases. If Plex is the only application much impacting the server the speed of disk access does not seem to be of particular importance.
I have my server running on a PC with just a standard 1tb drive for the database and the storage is a number of multi-tb drives connected via USB and pooled with StableBit’s DrivePool software.
The real trick is to have a dedicated pretty powerful server that runs nothing else that tasks the processor except Plex. It should not be a computer that is used for other tasks and it should be tweaked to maximum performance.
Plex with large amounts of data seems to work best when it is allowed to do its thing without interference from other programs or functions.
The only time I notice any appreciable sluggishness is when I try to access Plex during the 3 hour window I have set for daily maintenance.
Now some disclaimers:
I do NOT share my library.
I do NOT have extremely high bit-rate files.
I do NOT have more than two streams playing at any time.
I do NOT sync or optimize to or for any devices.
I do NOT often add huge amounts of data all at once when I am actually watching Plex.
While I do experiment a lot I keep my main server as simple as possible but I may soon need to add drives beyond what my current USB 3.0 hubs have available but that is just a matter of carefully selecting a larger hub.
There are people on this board with libraries MUCH larger than mine and I have not really noticed anyone being impacted by reaching some “limit” on size of their library.
BTW: I have seen a few announcements of breakthroughs that will allow drives in the petabyte or better range. Is anyone else drooling over that prospect?
I wonder how many petabytes it would take to hold all the movies ever made at a reasonable resolution?
Would a log help with my issue?
Yes please.
How about these?
@deaerator said:
I noticed this entry in the log, several hundred times.“Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB”
If you are having trouble with the Dashboard coming up after adding a lot of media, or any time after adding / moving a lot of media, Optimize the database. Examination of the PMS log file will show “SLOW QUERY”. This is additional confirmation the database is sorely in need of optimization / ‘repacking’.
There is no limit to how many entries (pieces of media you can enter) . We all will run out of storage long before we hit the 10TB size limit of the SQLITE3 database file
Under Settings - Server - Scheduled Tasks, I strongly recommend enabling (selecting) the following at minimum for best performance
- Backup database every three days
- Optimize database every week
- Remove old bundles every week
- Remove old cache files every week
- Refresh local metadata every three days
Database optimization worked!
Thank you.
