Plex server unresposnive for extend amounts of time during the DB optimization

[FordGuy61]

@hiavata

after the weekly optimization task is kicked off during the night, the server becomes unresponsive for… well, basically indefinitely (specifically, the web UI). I would usually just restart it after 4+ hours.

That is Plex Media Server de-bloating the database. It can take several hours. Plex will be unresponsive during the de-bloating.

An alternative is deflate.sh mentioned in the thread @ChristianKent linked. It is faster than letting PMS perform the de-bloating.

Here’s the Linux version: Library.db size more than doubled in latest version - #375 by ChuckPa