Has anyone found a solution for this? My Synology NAS doesn’t make noise, but plex is constantly reading from it. I tracked the network activity and for over 8 hrs plex consistently was pulling 50-100 mb/s of data. Granted I have all the scheduled tasks check to run but I only have them set to run between 1 am and 7 am. The hours of high network activity was during the day. I checked the process monitor on windows and it looked like plex was just accessing random media files with no rhyme or reason. Attached are my logs as @ChuckPa described abovePlex Media Server Logs_2019-03-12_10-54-01.zip (1.7 MB)
I guess I should also say this is brand new installation of PMS. This never happened on my old desktop, but I got a new one and reinstalled PMS about 5 days ago and it hasn’t stopped reading the NAS since. I do have a very large library so I’m thinking maybe it’s still just populating data. But the libraries and metadata are already scanned in and nothing seems to be missing. I just don’t know what it could possibly be doing, and I’m afraid the constant reading from my HDDs are going to shorten their life span
First:
HDDs, when left on and at stable operating temperature, have a 10+ year lifespan. When they spin up/down all the time, their lifespan is shorted to about 2-3 years.
SSDs, on the other hand, have a finite limit to the number of bytes which may be written. These can ‘burn out’ in as little as 6 months.
Second:
Large media libraries, especially video ones, will have all the media analyzed during scheduled maintenance in small amounts which does take several days. This profiling is done for automatic bit rate calculations and audio level.
All of this is normal.
Once all of the media is imported and analyzed, the nightly load will decrease.
First, At some point, you turned off DEBUG logging but in this case, it helps show some problems.
Mar 12, 2019 08:35:03.211 [7744] ERROR - Unknown metadata type:
Mar 12, 2019 08:35:04.511 [7832] WARN - NAT: PMP, got an error: NATPMP_ERR_RECVFROM.
Mar 12, 2019 08:35:06.831 [7744] WARN - SLOW QUERY: It took 390.625000 ms to retrieve 0 items.
Mar 12, 2019 08:40:13.013 [10516] INFO - Notification: Scanning the "Anime" section -
Mar 12, 2019 08:40:15.628 [10516] INFO - Notification: Scanning the "Movies" section -
Mar 12, 2019 08:40:16.552 [10516] INFO - Notification: Scanning the "Music" section -
Mar 12, 2019 08:40:39.401 [10516] INFO - Notification: Scanning the "TV Shows" section -
Mar 12, 2019 08:40:42.078 [10516] INFO - Notification: Library scan complete - Extra information may still be downloading from the Internet
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:06.998 [4768] ERROR - Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 7
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:06.998 [4768] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml (0, No error) (Failed to connect to 192.168.0.3 port 60872: Connection refused)
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:06.998 [4768] ERROR - SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:38.966 [4768] ERROR - Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 7
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:38.966 [4768] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml (0, No error) (Failed to connect to 192.168.0.3 port 60872: Connection refused)
Mar 12, 2019 08:55:38.966 [4768] ERROR - SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:21.219 [4768] ERROR - Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 7
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:21.219 [4768] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml (0, No error) (Failed to connect to 192.168.0.3 port 60872: Connection refused)
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:21.220 [4768] ERROR - SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:58.185 [4768] ERROR - Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 7
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:58.185 [4768] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml (0, No error) (Failed to connect to 192.168.0.3 port 60872: Connection refused)
Mar 12, 2019 08:56:58.185 [4768] ERROR - SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml
Mar 12, 2019 08:57:31.447 [4768] ERROR - Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 7
Mar 12, 2019 08:57:31.447 [4768] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml (0, No error) (Failed to connect to 192.168.0.3 port 60872: Connection refused)
Mar 12, 2019 08:57:31.447 [4768] ERROR - SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://192.168.0.3:60872/RootDevice.xml
- Database fragmentation: Optimize the DB by hand and enable automatic in Schedule Tasks
- Find out what is advertizing itself as a player (192.168.0.3) and disable advertising.
This isn’t a Synology issue because your server is running on Windows.
Mar 12, 2019 08:34:50.736 [7460] INFO - Plex Media Server v1.15.1.710-ece95b3a1 - Microsoft PC x64 - build: windows-x86 windows - GMT -04:00
Mar 12, 2019 08:34:50.736 [7460] INFO - Windows version: 10.0 (Build 17763), language en-US
Mar 12, 2019 08:34:50.736 [7460] INFO - 12 3691 MHz processor(s): Architecture=0, Level=6, Revision=15876 Processor Identifier=Intel64 Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 4, GenuineIntel
Mar 12, 2019 08:34:50.768 [7656] INFO - SQLITE3:0x19079ede, 283, recovered 190 frames from WAL file C:\Users\Tirin\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-in
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Thank you so much @ChuckPa - that really puts my mind at ease. Thanks for the quick response brother!
If you have set a periodic library update, make sure to leave several hours between those updates.
You should better not be updating the music library during maintenance.
Disable " Update all libraries during maintenance".
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