No files will play

Its in AUR.

If you are willing we could use teamviewer or something to figure this out. I’m really stuck on this.

I can figure most things but if you can’t download from Plex at HDD speed – we are dead stop because all that requires:

  1. HDD read
  2. Socket write over 127.0.0.1 from server to browser
  3. Browser receive on 127.0.0.1
  4. Browser write to HDD.

There is something in the socket layer which is getting in the way BADLY.

I tried to setup arch twice. Both times I wiped it at the bootstrapping stage because of frustration. It was not a pretty sight. (I’ve been doing this for 40 years now and don’t understand arch).

I’m sorry but I have no choice to refer you to the Arch folks for ideas. I’m stumped.

I like arch for very limited and very powerful use cases. like Plex. I really appreciate the help. I will continue and post a solution here once I get it.

When you say refer me to the arch folks do you mean for me to go back to the Arch package maintainers?

I might have some more questions while digging in further.

grasp-at-straws item to check.

What does the S.M.A.R.T data for the HDD show?

Any HDD errors being corrected?
Any retries?

I would hope not but that 60 MB/sec is concerning.

WIth that CPU, you should be pulling at full SATA-3 speed which is 200+ MB/sec

Your Socket comment got me on the right track. I have a very complex network setup here with multiple routers and switches. As it turns out the router on a “separate network” somehow weaseled its way into my routing for this server as a statically set gateway. Because of how this is setup it was relaying through that other router and cycling over and over again.

I turned that router off and reset my routing on this server. Everything is working fine.

I don’t even know what to say about this. but in its simplest form it created something like this, but through software:

I apologize, I feel like I wasted your time.

It’s fixed. That’s what matters.

have a great evening.

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