Plex connection without remote Access & Insufficent max_user_watches

[ChuckPa]

XPEnology? Figures

DSM 6 or DSM 5 ?

DSM 6’s latest doesn’t allow direct use of max_user_watches in /etc/sysctl.conf.
They ignore then overwrite it independent of what is stated.

This is the perpetual cat & mouse game with them.

The proper way to do this (which changes again in DSM 7) is

Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and a few How-To's

FAQ 16: Increase the number of folders Plex can monitor Applicable to all supported versions of DSM. When the Linux ‘inotify’ table fills up, this will cause when Plex to stop automatically detecting new media you add to the server. It will also manifest when there are transcoder problems with Dolby audio codecs. Linux has a default table size which is static. We can increase this at will. On some versions it’s 8192. On newer kernels, the default is 65536 folders. This is easy to in…