# Plex EAC3 5.1 Problem

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-eac3-5-1-problem/932725 "2025-10-22T02:14:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-eac3-5-1-problem/932725/2 "2025-10-22T07:02:14Z")

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Make certain server [DEBUG logging](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201643703-reporting-issues-with-plex-media-server/#toc-1) is enabled (VERBOSE disabled)  
Restart PMS  
Let it sit completely idle for a couple minutes (3 minutes should be enough)  
Download the logs.

Search for “No space left on device” (scroll down through the logs.. it will be obvious)

If you don’t see any, confirm the transcoder temp is on a local HDD (Network storage will not work for this)

If you do find this error message , this confirms the Notify table (which EAC transcoding uses) is full (you are attempting to monitor more folders than the kernel allows by default). A lot of properly structured music or photos will fill the kernel table very quickly.

The solution is to increase the table size.

Here is how you determine if you need to increase the table size and then how to increase the size.

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/9):
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> Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (\*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…

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