Hi, since a few week when I go to my computer that is running I find the system very slow, this happened like 4 or 5 times, and is completely random with 1 or 2 weeks in between. I open task manager and all plugins scripts are using all the CPU. To be clear, there is no transcoding, there is no e…

Or maybe I won’t upload the database…I suspect it’s huge. To add a further comment…this is what Im saying about the transcoder grinding away: I wasn’t transcoding anything at all during that period, yet the .exe was thrashing away like it was trying to choke through a 40Gb 4K file.

I’ll have to stick the database file on Google Drive, it seems. Here’s even more recent logs and screencap. As you’ll see, the transcoder is going – not sure it should be, given that music is supposed to be direct play. Is Plex transcoding FLAC to MP3 or something? Plex Media Server Logs_2018-08-2…

Aaaah, I see, it’s converting it to AAC. Why? Edit: Never mind. Apparently an inefficient methodology for playback, reducing everything to either MP4 or AAC?

The database. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AW4gwwJigF8Ae8PwlXfhGxIegsblCZDO/view?usp=sharing

Plex may transcode FLAC in some cases. Your latest screenshot only shows the transcoder using 3%, which is about right for music. PMS is 12%, which is also not that much. Your shot doesn’t show what the other 85% load is coming from. I see that you have the Plex DLNA server enabled. If you don’…

Do you also have Networx installed? Or any special firewall? If so, this might be a related topic: [image] PlexScriptHost.exe CPU usage General Discussions Hi all, I’ve tried googling and found a few old threads but nothing with a solution, my Plex server 0.9.16.6 (Windo…

download process explorer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer and see the end of the command line of the process using high cpu to find which plugin is causing it.

And this morning…PlexTranscoder.exe banging away once more. I notice it was doing this while once again stuck in a loop scanning the audiobooks section, so there may be something in there confusing it. I’ll dig through and see. Plex Media Server Logs_2018-08-30_10-53-35.zip (5.8 MB) This has Thun…

The other load was in part coming from EAC, as I’m engaged in ripping CDs from my collection. I mainly wanted to show what things look like when Plex is behaving relatively normally. I do use other clients with the DLNA, but not that often, so I might experiment with turning that off. I do try to …

Nope, not Networx. I use Nord VPN, Avast, and Peerblock.

Plex using 100% of CPU randomly when idle

Plex Media Server

koalabear84 August 30, 2018, 5:45am 43

Do you also have Networx installed? Or any special firewall?

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