I’d like to suggest changing the current “nice” level of the Plex Transcoder to something slightly lower (thus at a higher priority) than 19/20 (I have 20 on my freebsd machine, but my linux machine has a max nice level of 19), such as something between 16-18. It looks like the only other Plex proce…

Plex Transcoder Nice Priority

OttoKerner October 20, 2019, 8:24am 3

‘Background transcodes’ are transcodes caused by ‘mobile sync’ and ‘optimization’ jobs.
This vwon’t change anything for regular “playback” transcodes.

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