Server Version#: Version 1.19.1.2645
Player Version#: N/A
Hello!
My plex server has been behaving unusually the last couple days and I’m struggling to undestand why. For reference my server has been up and running for almost a year now without so much as a hiccup. I’m running PMS on a little mini-itx server powered by an i7-6700k. I don’t have any 4k media, and transcoding has never really put any strain in the CPU. I’ve had up to 10 users streaming at the same time, most hw transcoding without topping 50% CPU usage.
A couple days ago however I could hear my server, which is mostly silent, revving up hard. From the plex dashboard I could see the CPU usage was at 100%. This has happened a couple times since and just now it happened again while only a single user was streaming, so I decided to take a closer look.
The Plex Media process was inexplicably eating up my CPU:
After about 10 minutes it dropped back down to the normal baseline of <10% usage.
To my knowledge nothing has changed in my setup, I haven’t updated anything or made any alterations to my configuration what so ever. Has anybody else experienced this? It’s not a major issue but I can’t figure out what’s going on and it bothers me.
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.898 [0x7fa081752700] INFO - Plex Media Server v1.19.1.2645-ccb6eb67e - Ubuntu snap x86_64 - build: linux-x86_64 snap - GMT -07:00
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.898 [0x7fa081752700] INFO - Linux version: 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver), language: C
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.898 [0x7fa081752700] INFO - Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.898 [0x7fa081752700] INFO - ./Plex Media Server
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.897 [0x7f9f537fe700] DEBUG - Statistics: (c0f8gqzyvmdwkl6lmae4g9ny) Reporting active playback in state 1 of type 4 (scrobble: 0) for account 1
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.898 [0x7fa0737fe700] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Usage: 16315kbps of WAN bandwidth, 2 streaming transcode slots, and 0 static transcode slots across 4 sessions
Apr 09, 2020 23:16:38.900 [0x7fa0790ac700] DEBUG - Completed: [192.168.2.95:57991] 200 GET /:/timeline
I see normal playback activity. Some with transcoding and some without to the Tizen, Plex/Web (browser), and XBox players. I do see some subtitle burning. Burning subtitles might require a full core of the CPU.
This was measured from the Plex dashboard and Top as shown in the image in my initial post. On the dashboard CPU monitor both the Plex Media Server (green) and System (red) lines were at 100% for a sustained period.
Top showed the Plex Media process at 723 %CPU, so not quite all 8 cores at 100% but very close. The Plex Trans process was at 8%.
