Server Version#: 1.31.3.6868 Recently I was trying to watch things on my Nvidia shield, but it became impossible for me select anything as the page kept refreshing every second. I assumed it was an issue with that at first, but after a while of troubleshooting I opened up the plex server, and noti…

Are you sure it’s not the new credit detection? [image] Plex using 100% CPU all the time, with no usage. Help Desktops & Laptops Settings - ‘Show Advanced’ - Server - Library - “Generate credits video markers” ← Disabled Save Changes, restart Plex server See if the iss…

I’ll give that a shot. Does the credit detection show as scanning library in the activity drop-down though? Also if this does resolve it seems like the feature may be completely broken and plex needs to work on it

Unfortunately this did not solve the issue. Continued trying to scan all libraries. Only solve so far is unchecking auto scan. I can leave partial scan checked off, but that actually doesn’t seem to be working. Added a bunch of music to a library today, and it didn’t seem to detect changes to th…

I only experience excessive scanning once and it was due to a corrupt file I had added. Luckily, I noticed it soon after so I knew what file it was. I’m not a Linux guy so this could be something obvious I’m unaware of I would upload your server logs to see if someone can pinpoint what’s going on …

Plex Server Constantly scanning all Libraries

Plex Media Server

JaysPlex March 29, 2023, 2:43am 2

Are you sure it’s not the new credit detection?

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