Server Version#: 1.42.2.10156 Player Version#: N/A I’m not sure how long these have been occurring as I don’t monitor the logs but when trying to uncover some downloading issues I have come across some troubling errors and while I’ve found threads with the same log entries, none of the solutions w…

See if this applies ? [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when …

It does not apply. I have less than 4000 directories to monitor and with the latest kernel on ubuntu it has 64K default. The transcoder temp directory is /dev/shm so not on a share

[image] MattDale: I have less than 4000 directories to monitor But what is the complete size on the drive? That table is no just for plex media.

On that share it is only media. On the whole system the count of directories is 272841 however I don’t expect they all need monitored. Is there a command to check this?

[image] MattDale: I don’t expect they all need monitored. the inotify table is a OS feature, not something in plex. Its an OS feature that provides notifications to apps that are watching specific directories. However the table is part of the OS kernel. See Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers,…

Server DEBUG logs please which capture this happening? Best logs are those which capture server startup and an attempted transcode which fails.

Plex Media Server.log (1.6 MB) This is my latest log with all the mentioned errors

Would the inotify table need to be increased on the NAS or it only the host OS that matters for this?

Thanks. This confirms the table is full Jan 06, 2026 00:56:19.226 [127145329314616] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/mnt/media/video/films" (28: No space left on device) Jan 06, 2026 00:56:19.230 [127145376467768] WARN - JobManager: Could not find job for handle 2720335 Jan 06, 2026 00:5…

[image] MattDale: Would the inotify table need to be increased on the NAS or it only the host OS that matters for this? The inotify table is populated on the host which runs PMS. PMS uses the kernel’s filesystem notification mechanism to detect changes This is how “Automatically Update my l…

Multiple repeated errors in the console

Plex Media Server

ChuckPa January 6, 2026, 1:43am 2

See if this applies ?

I will also ask if the transcoder temp directory is on a network share ?

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Multiple repeated errors in the console

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