Server Version#: 1.19.4.2902 Player Version#: 4.30.2 Enable Intro detecttion: off Enable video preview thumbnails: off Save progress of songs: off Tag photos: off Number of libraries: 34 Running Windows 10 on NVMe drive PMS on the same NVMe drive i7 CPU with 16GB of RAM on dedicated machine…

Database is optimized after each scan. I also clean bundles and empty trash after each scan of each library. I do this manually. I also turned off automatic scan because the library is so big and the performance is so bad that no client can connect to the server when scanning/optimizing/cleaning …

Music carries a lot of data with each track which does add to the size as do photos. Do you have a SSD to use as cache / move PMS to? Is this on Windows or Linux? You’ve marked both.

Thanks for the reply :slight_smile: It is running on Windows. I will considering moving to Linux if performance is better there. Windows runs on NVMe which is where PMS also sits. 180+GB free space left on the NVMe drive.

If you’re already on NVMe, and the CPU is hefty enough, then Windows I/O is likely holding you back. Linux isn’t for the timid so be advised. We are here to help with Linux but we aren’t equipped to teach Linux so be prepared to master Linux basics using Google & a play VM as your first step. I …

Very interesting on the Linux performance. I have plenty of Linux boxes here so there’s no challenge in setting it up. Just want to see if there is significant gain in moving to Linux (Ubuntu to be specific). Windows is currently on an i7 with 16GB of RAM dedicated machine. On the DB side, I’m a…

Will there be hardware transcoding? Given how much media you have indexed, I’m surprised the DB is that small.

Very minimal transcoding. Everyone will be direct play, (hopefully). What is considered a large DB file?

I’ve seen then go as high as 4GB I have 150K entries, for all my test sets, and my DB is 393 MB Take into consideration, there are no photos and only 38K music tracks. For the VM, with DirectPlay, giving Linux enough room to cache the DB in RAM (normal file buffer), I would allocate 8GB. Ut…

Thanks! Anything special I need to do to cache the DB into RAM?

No. Linux will do that automatically for you. free -m (to examine free memory) will show you how much is being used and what the buffer usages are: e.g. Reported in Megabytes. [chuck@lizum /vie.508]$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: …

Plex com.plexapp.plugins.library.db over 2GB

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Plex com.plexapp.plugins.library.db over 2GB

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