Thanks for the logs.
This wasn’t a spike per se. It was a steady build up from
Fri Apr 26 09:08:40 CDT 2019
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15913 2648 11884 255 1380 12738
Swap: 2047 0 2047
to
Sat Apr 27 11:58:50 CDT 2019
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15913 12595 277 237 3039 2751
Swap: 2047 0 2047
Sat Apr 27 11:59:50 CDT 2019
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15913 12561 1172 237 2178 2785
Swap: 2047 0 2047
This is where it’s just about reached the end of the buffers it can dump.
The last line in the file:
Sat Apr 27 13:26:50 CDT 2019
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15913 12511 542 237 2858 2835
Swap: 2047 0 2047
Shows it’s close to swapping. When free gets back down to 160-ish again, it will swap.
I would like you to temporarily increase the number of log files retained by the system.
- Stop Plex
- As root, add LogNumFiles=“20” in Prefernces.xml at the end, just before the closing
/>
- Start PMS
Now, your logs will have 20 rollovers instead of 5. This will hopefully give us enough of a window.
Please reset your memory-watcher log and begin again.