Even paused transcode tasks, the 'Plex transcoder' process still in high cpu usage

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Server Version#: Version 4.123.2
Player Version#: -
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>

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This is expected behavior.

it is the reason why there is a setting called “Terminate Sessions Paused for Longer Than”
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/

Educate your users to utilize the Stop :black_square_button: button.

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Why do we need so many resources to maintain a paused task？
Or, maybe, Is there a schduled transcoding function？ That can also solve my problem.

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No Stop button found for transcode tasks

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I mean the Stop button in the player.

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Thank you for your reply again

But all I mentioned were transcoding tasks

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What do you mean by “transcoding task”?

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Sorry, my fault. I mean Optimize tasks. Transcode high quality movies to lower quality for the mobile devices.

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Ahh, understood.

Actually I’m not sure why this would still cause the CPU load to remain that high.
When I Pause an optimization job on my server, CPU load is reduced to almost zero after a few seconds.
(But that is not on a NAS device, so might not be comparable.)

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For Plex transcoder process, there will indeed be times of decline; But after a while, there will be high CPU usage again

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Are you certain that this transcoder process is indeed the paused optimization?

I have paused my test optimization again, for 15 minutes and I don’t see the CPU load creeping up again.

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Yes, sure

Looking at my previous reply, I put two browser pages together and took a screenshot of it

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paused_transcode

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record the screen for it

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pause the optimize task, the cpu usage do goes lower, but still in high percentage.

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May I see the server DEBUG log files ZIP please?

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Plex Media Server.log (2.7 MB)

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Unfortunately, debug level logging has been disabled. Valuable information is missing from the log files.

  1. Please re-enable debug, not verbose, level logs.
    Settings → Server_Name → General + Show Advanced

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  2. Restart Plex Media Server.

  3. When the problem re-occurs, download a new set of log files.
    Settings → Troubleshooting.

  4. Upload the entire ZIP file to the thread.

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Plex Media Server Logs_2024-03-04_14-56-06.zip (50.0 KB)

Could you please confirm if this log is correct?