# of item limits? Beefy system is slowing down why?

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Does plex have a limit on how many items it can have? I’m sitting on just shy of 30k movies and TV shows recorded. Menus are starting to get slow when loading/searching at the TV. Sometimes 10-15 seconds between.

I don’t think I can throw any more hardware at it. TV’s are running shield TV over gig copper. Server is running 64 cores, 128gb memory with a 100TB NAS with a 2TB SSD cache over 10GB fiber.

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With that size of library, it’s probably gonna be either iops limit for database file latency, or single core processing.

64 cores doesn’t matter if the bottleneck comes down to single core performance.

What is the size of the database file? Just the db, not the whole data folder?

Also, what specific cpu(s), cause 64 cores of 10 years old cpu don’t mean much.

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AMD Threadripper 3990X.

com.plexapp.plugins.library.db is 163mb.
com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db is 713mb
the EPG is 146mb.

My NAS can pump out some serious IOPS with the SSD cache.

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That dB is not very big, mine is about 1.6 gig. Are you sure those are correct?

Are you running plex bare metal or virtualized?

Without logs that reveals some issue, at this point it’s just guessing.

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Everything is bare metal. Plex runs on a Windows 10 Pro 64-bit windows machine. My NAS is a synology DS2419+ with 10x 10tb Iron Wolf Pro drives and a 512gb SSD cache.

Not sure if logs will help. Just felt slow and thought I would ask?

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How fast your nas is, is mostly irrelevant.

What matters is how fast is storage where the database and plex metadata are stored, ie the plex data folder (not where the binaries are stored).

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350G - last year - stopped checking - takes too long…lol
Plex, however - is fine - no issues.

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350g for just the database? Or the whole data folder.

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the whole thing - that’s spinning around on that HDD…
VPTs - the works.

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I have a dedicated 1tb ssd for only the plex data, of which is about 600-700 gig with thumbs etc.

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I have a plan in place to do that… it’s just out of reach ATM, but it’s still a plan…lol

The Spinner, for now, is working fine.

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How large are the folders in your media storage?
Avoid folders having more than a few hundred items in them.

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My Movies folder is about 2800 folders strong. Each movie being in their own folder.

My TV folder is 345 main folders, 1481 sub-folders and 27,000 files. I organize my TV shows by Name -> Season -> episodes.

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My Plex folder is on my NAS with everything else. Should I move it to a local SSD?

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Make “subdivision” folders, then add each of those individually to your movie library.
e.g.

/Movies
   /A--E
      /A Movie Title (year)
      ...
   / F--K
   ...
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Uh, yes.

Definitely.

Putting the plex data on a remote storage is a recipe for disaster.

Even using an iscsi ‘drive’ is not good.

you can point the path to the ‘backup’ destination to your nas though, this will help ensure that your database always has a backup.

plex web > settings > scheduled tasks > backup directory

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