# Plex Media Server silently crashing regularly

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-silently-crashing-regularly/938592>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [May 6, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-silently-crashing-regularly/938592 "2026-05-06T00:18:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![RedshiftZ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/redshiftz/32/348076_2.png) [@RedshiftZ](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RedshiftZ)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-silently-crashing-regularly/938592/1 "2026-05-06T00:18:30Z")

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Server Version#:1.43.1.10611  
Player Version#: All

Hello all, Plex Media server running on Windows 11 Pro, and it crashes about once a day for no obvious reason. I find out that it’s down when I try to use any client app (iOS, another computer, doesn’t matter). I’ve been looking through my [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) but frankly this is my first Plex log dive so I’m not sure what I’m looking for, although I’ll continue looking. I can’t even provide an approximate time better than “in the last 24 hours” to narrow down where in the logs to look.

[Plex Media Server Logs\_2026-05-05\_19-57-12.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/vpKEuQvURuICF1f0c3DjjP7rB5h.zip) (4.0 MB)

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**Author:** ![dbirch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@dbirch](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dbirch)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-silently-crashing-regularly/938592/2 "2026-05-06T00:54:48Z")

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Seeing `May 03, 2026 13:32:05.217 [2072] ERROR - Waited over 10 seconds for a busy database; giving up.` would recommend [https://github.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair](https://github.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair) even if the database isnt damaged the optimization may fix your issue.

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**Author:** ![RedshiftZ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/redshiftz/32/348076_2.png) [@RedshiftZ](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RedshiftZ)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 3:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-silently-crashing-regularly/938592/3 "2026-05-06T03:16:14Z")

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Bueno, thank you. Might be good to move it to dedicated storage as well, That was on my to-do list and I need to stop procrastinating and migrate my instance.