# My Plex Server is sleep

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [January 13, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702 "2021-01-13T03:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![AliefNokyoong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AliefNokyoong](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AliefNokyoong)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702/1 "2021-01-13T03:01:23Z")

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Why my plex server is sleeping  
This my logs

> BlockquoteSqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.  
> Sqlite3: Sleeping for 200ms to retry busy DB.

How can I fix? My plex server run on docker

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**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702/2 "2021-01-13T23:50:34Z")

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That does not mean PMS is sleeping. It’s PMS trying to access your database, finding it busy, so it’s just delaying accessing the database. This is normal if your database us busy doing something like gathering metadata.

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**Author:** ![AliefNokyoong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AliefNokyoong](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AliefNokyoong)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702/3 "2021-01-15T02:36:08Z")

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Thank You Now I undrstand

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-sleep/677702/4 "2021-04-15T02:36:12Z")

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