Server Version#: 1.19.1.2645 Player Version#: NA I’m seeing this odd behavior on a fresh, clean install (recently upgraded) of PMS on FreeNAS 11.3-U2. It’s reported here Nothing in the logs seem to explain what’s going on, but the net result is that this is trashing my SSD rather fast :frowning: …

Plex constantly writes to Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-{shm,wal}

Kaldek June 24, 2020, 1:18am 9

Same issue here with a Plex Docker image running on unRAID and it’s constantly writing to:

com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-shm
com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal

This is about 5MB/s consistently, all the time even at idle. I have nothing else running that touches this SSD. These are tiny files - 32KB and 3340KB respectively - and I can only assume it is constantly wiping and recreating them?

My Plex version 1.19.4.2935

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Plex constantly writes to Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-{shm,wal}

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