Server Version: 1.43.0.10492 I notice that all bases are duplicated every 3 days with a “-tmp”? Can I delete all these “-tmp” files? Can I delete all “-tmp” files while the system is running? That is, without interrupting or restarting the Plex service? plex-0:/config$ du -sh Library/Applicatio…

After switching storage to a simple replication, I no longer have any temporary file issues. I also returned to the initial configuration in the scheduled tasks : [image] I continue my observation, but I don’t think it’s necessary to switch to local storage.

The main thing is to ensure that the PMS container has rwx rights to the mapped config directory. As you’ve stated, the fact that these files are written/updated suggests that is the case. It is also important to ensure that the period during which scheduled tasks are run (this is configurable) is…

For the moment, I have deactivated all maintenance tasks except for the backup. [image] I will reactivate tasks incrementally until I find the task that generates these temporary files.

It might be the backup, during which the tmp files are created. [image] vdk: And in Kubernetes, I have set up probes to know if the port is available or not. I think it restarts the service before the maintenance task is finished. Prolong the timeout. These maintenance tasks can take sometim…

Why K8S ? Initially, I had one NUC per service that I wanted to run at home. One NUC for Plex, one NUC for Roon, one NUC for Radarr, one NUC for Sonarr, …. Then I started learning K8S and decided to take all the NUCs to create a K8S cluster and put all the services in a single cluster. The goal w…

[image] OttoKerner: Prolong the timeout. These maintenance tasks can take sometimes quite long. If they always get aborted by your watchdog, the health of the database won’t get better as well. Currently, I have defined the probes as follows: (The displayed times are in seconds.) s…

I confirm that I am indeed using block level I/O devices for everything related to Plex, with the exception of movies and TV shows.

One good thing about all this is that I was able to free up 570 Go

To comment on the referred post: PMS still requires a monolithic kernel / host architecture to operate. ASMP (multiple independent CPUs on multiple kernels) will fail. Those ‘-tmp’ files are the manifestation of in-use locks colliding with delete operations not completing. The default con…

Thank you for the explanation. [image] ChuckPa: Those ‘-tmp’ files are the manifestation of in-use locks colliding with delete operations not completing. The default condition in these cases is to not remove the inode (keep the file) In this case, I think i know what caused this. It’s the Bl…

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OttoKerner February 13, 2026, 9:39pm 13

Sorry, I’m not qualified to answer that.

Actually, I don’t even know if something fundametal has changed since @ChuckPa wrote this: https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-on-kubernetes-a-story-of-a-total-disaster/771908/5

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