As said, after I leave PMS running for a while , it generates 4 Phyton.exe that use up to 100% cpu.
I’ve seen that multiple people seem to have the same issue and I’ve tried their fixes.
While using Process Explorer this is what I got so far:
The said dll has 2 states:
One in which it as 7 lines and always ends up in some Pyhton dll
And other that appears after I refresh a couple times, which is way longer
From what I’ve looked up, this ntdll.dll can be related to drivers/corrupted runtimes.
Still I’m not sure what to next.
PS: I did toggle library scan options and I’ve not reinstalled Plex Media Server yet.
PlexScriptHost.exe is the process that executes each channel, it’s somewhat common for a channel to do something dodgy and cause this.
I’ve installed Webtools, Trakt.tv and SubZero Subtitles. I noticed something for the first time though.
I’ve restarted PMS and the Subzero addon only starts after a while, along with the 4 Python.exe.
The only time where we had a looping PlexScriptHost.exe process was when users ran third party product networx a bandwidth monitor program
If the 127.0.0.1 internal connections get closed then we get a loop. This was seen to arise with networx and the loop was reproduced by doing just that. So if you have any third party software that may be killing of 127.0.0.1 back to back connections for the PlexScriptHost.exe process then that would lead to a loop
Other than that - need to look into what plugins are doing
The only time where we had a looping PlexScriptHost.exe process was when users ran third party product networx a bandwidth monitor program
If the 127.0.0.1 internal connections get closed then we get a loop. This was seen to arise with networx and the loop was reproduced by doing just that. So if you have any third party software that may be killing of 127.0.0.1 back to back connections for the PlexScriptHost.exe process then that would lead to a loop
Other than that - need to look into what plugins are doing
I have only considered 3 programs:
Bitdefender Firewall
Glasswire
Wireshark ( which is not even running)
Is there anyway these have that networx embedded or something?
The way I trapped it was capturing the disconnection in ProcMon
But you should be able to see if it is that by using Process Explorer
Select Properties for the process and then the TCP tab and see what state the connections are in
When running normally there would be two back to back connections for 127.0.0.1
@sa2000 said:
The way I trapped it was capturing the disconnection in ProcMon
But you should be able to see if it is that by using Process Explorer
Select Properties for the process and then the TCP tab and see what state the connections are in
When running normally there would be two back to back connections for 127.0.0.1
I can see 3 different connections in Proprieties of PlexSxriptHost:
Sequence being:
Uninstalled Glasswire
Shutdown Plex Media Server
Kill any residual processes - the update service can remain
Reboot PC
Launches Plex Media Server
Loop happens again?
@sa2000 said:
The way I trapped it was capturing the disconnection in ProcMon
But you should be able to see if it is that by using Process Explorer
Select Properties for the process and then the TCP tab and see what state the connections are in
When running normally there would be two back to back connections for 127.0.0.1
I can see 3 different connections in Proprieties of PlexSxriptHost:
find the process for the com.plexapp.system
If you can find the command line used to launch the process that would identify the bundle - system.bundle
33443/33400 i think is webtools
The view of the tcp ports looked like this for me when i did my testing
Local Address:Port Remote Address:Port State
aml-sa-lt:53152 aml-sa-lt:0 LISTENING
aml-sa-lt:53153 aml-sa-lt:53154 ESTABLISHED
aml-sa-lt:53154 aml-sa-lt:53153 ESTABLISHED
The two i mentioned would be the back-to-back ones. Local Address.Port = Remote Address,Port of the other.
We need these 2 back-to-back tcp connections to show as established
