I use a synology nas. I have about 12tb left.
The plex server recently stopped a few times.
I checked the log. It shows the following as attached in a picture.
Please help me to resolve the issue.
This is not about storage space but “watches”. Linux systems only support a limited number of folders to be “watched” for updates.
see the hint in section Update my library automatically of this Plex support page:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200289526-Library
Do you have Settings > Server > Library > Include music libraries in automated updates checked? This sometimes “explodes” the number of folders in your filesystem and eats up all the available “watches”.
I do have a lot of folders in the file system.
I did not enable including music libraries in automated updates.
Are there any ways to improve this?
no… this is a restriction applied by the operating system. nothing Plex can influence.
This is not a restriction. It is a default on Linux.
The OS kernel parameter can be increased.
- Using ssh, sign into the DiskStation as user
admin sudo -su rootecho fs.inotify.max_user_watches=131072 >> /etc/sysctl.conf- Restart DSM
131072 is 128K in decimal. This increases the default kernel limit from 8K directories to 128K directories. It does increase the kernel memory utilization.
Valid possible sizes are: 32768 65536, 131072, 262144, and 524288
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ah… scripting 101 
thx… I didn’t know that.
