Plex Deadlocking with to many hung connections issues for last 5 months Now!. (This ended up giving me anxiety attacks!) (Edited title for clarification)

[pshanew]

This may be relevant to some:

[implemented] Add includeGuids URL parameter to return external Guids

External metadata guids were implemented for the new Plex Movie and Plex TV Series agent in this previous feature request. Example: <Guid id="imdb://tt5433138"/> <Guid id="tmdb://385128"/> <Guid id="tvdb://8856"/> However, these external guids are only available when retrieving the metadata XML for a single item (i.e. /library/metadata/<ratingKey>). They are not available when retrieving the contents of a library (i.e. /library/sections/<librarySectionID>/all). Many 3rd party applications d…

@SwiftPanda16

This is extremely taxing on the Plex server and network which can cause the Plex server to lock up and become unresponsive. For example, a library of 10k movies will require 10k individual API calls.