# DSM 7, Daily Plex server crashes

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-synology\
**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dsm-7-daily-plex-server-crashes/735418 "2021-08-11T03:38:24Z")\
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@terfex

You have a few other issues, namely the maximum number of directories DSM can monitor (by default).

If you look at my FAQ, Step “c” where I show the value to use for `s2s_watches_max`, you should be able to use **65536** comfortably and have room for growth. **32768** is also a good number if you wish to save that extra little bit of memory (if your system has less than 8GB)

> [@Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's](https://forums.plex.tv/t/topic/490215/22):
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> FAQ 16: Increase the number of folders Plex can monitor Applicable to all supported versions of DSM. When the Linux ‘inotify’ table fills up, this will cause when Plex to stop automatically detecting new media you add to the server. It will also manifest when there are transcoder problems with Dolby audio codecs. Linux has a default table size which is static. We can increase this at will. On some versions it’s 8192. On newer kernels, the default is 65536 folders. This is easy to incr…

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