Server Version#: ltest Hey guys, for intro detection it seems there is a lot of data going in and out of the /tmp dir. 0.2-0.8G per Episode. That’s Terrabytes of data going over the SSD (in my case) Why not restrict this to some dir inside the plexmediaserver dirstructure, Cache or Transcode comes…

Ok then I think you misunderstood me, or I am explaining poorly. [image] ChuckPa: The default Temporary directory (normal PMS operations) – NON transcoding, Non-scanning) is This is not happening currently. /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcode is writing some operations into /tmp. plex …

[image] Orko: This is not happening currently. He’s already said that it will be fixed. [image] Lots of traffic in /tmp on intro detection Plex Media Server As I said above, we’re going to clean up the confusion caused in the new packaging. Having traced it all d…

[image] TeknoJunky: this is simply a playlist of files for the transcoder to scan. it’s not a ‘transcode’ per se Pretty big for a playlist: 930M 2ca9dcf7-c66a-4606-9c73-11e62ac0838c [image] TeknoJunky: He’s already said that it will be fixed. This is another issue.

[image] Orko: 930M 2ca9dcf7-c66a-4606-9c73-11e62ac0838c hmm you may be right, plex does use those guid for transcoder/scanner playlists, but this doesn’t seem to be one.

:/tmp# file e467a151-e8e6-48d7-bde9-42cf4e50c07c e467a151-e8e6-48d7-bde9-42cf4e50c07c: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, 6 channels 48000 Hz This is simply a bug, Transcoder does not honour TranscoderTempDirectory="pathname" and falls back on TMPDIR. Probably not fixable via a new .service fi…

[image] PMS stopped honoring temporary directory setting. Now uses /tmp Plex Media Server Server Version#: 1.19.3.2843 Recently Plex server stopped honoring the setting: TranscoderTempDirectory="/plex/tmp" It created a directory /tmp/pms- and files in /tmp that look lik…

I’m sorry, this is not a ‘throw everything in one thread’ pile. Please create a fresh thread with DEBUG logs ZIP which capture this

This is the topic the Thread was originally about, no need to create a new one. The thread references by @TeknoJunky basically dances around this bug as well. When using the transcoder to scan for intros it does not honour TranscoderTempDirectory= but uses TMPDIR Setting TMPDIR to someting else …

I imagine it is coming down to semantics. the transcoder temp location is for large tmp files for streaming the tmp folder (where ever, how ever it is determined), is for everything else. intro scanning is not streaming. ergo it goes to tmp link both to /dev/shm and then you don’t have to worry…

It’s called TranscoderTempDirectory not StreamingTempDirectory.

Lots of traffic in /tmp on intro detection

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TeknoJunky May 26, 2020, 5:39am 23

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Lots of traffic in /tmp on intro detection

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