Plexmediaserver using 77GB per systemctl status plexmediaserver. Only 1.7GB per Plex UI

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.28.2.6151
Player Version#:
root@amilet2:~# systemctl status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
**Plex Media Server Logs_2022-09-07_10-41-16.zip (15.2 MB)
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Process: 1824 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” || /bin/mkdir -p “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1900 (Plex Media Serv)
Tasks: 108 (limit: 154583)
Memory: 76.7G
CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
├─ 1900 “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server”
├─ 5365 “Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system]” /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-914ddd2b3/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.28.2.6151-914ddd2b3 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-914ddd2b3/System.bundle
├─ 5428 “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service” /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.28.2.6151-914ddd2b3 32600
├─ 15779 “Plex EAE Service”
└─ 303195 “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder” -codec:1 aac -analyzeduration 20000000 -probesize 20000000 -i “/mnt/disk0/downloadsv/video/TV/Nature/Season 38/nature.s38e13.cubas.wild.revolution.web.720p.h264-underbelly[eztv].mkv” -filter_complex "[0:1] aresample=async=1:ocl=‘stereo’:rematrix_max>

Sep 07 10:35:12 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[300952]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:35:27 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[301096]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:36:00 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[301235]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:36:51 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[301579]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:37:38 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[301851]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:38:27 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[302141]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:39:10 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[302353]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:39:27 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[302556]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:40:06 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[302778]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.
Sep 07 10:40:52 amilet2.ckimaru.com sh[303165]: The ‘–scan’ operation is deprecated and will be removed in future versions of Plex Media Server.

root@amilet2:~# #Version 1.28.2.6151

root@amilet2:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 131951672 kB

root@amilet2:~# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)

Plex Media Server Logs_2022-09-07_10-41-16.zip (15.2 MB)

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Any clues why so much memory is in use ?

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The Memory value from systemctl represents “Total Accounting” or all the memory used to date not what is in use at the moment. You can add LogMemoryUse=“1” to your Preferences.xml to track memory usage in the ‘Plex Media Server.log’.

I see that you have already done that so your log files show actual and allocated. With 125GB of RAM your system isn’t going to do much cleaning/freeing used memory.

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Thanks for clarifying systemctl. htop also correctly shows much less usage.
I’ll keep an eye on the usage per ‘Plex Media Server.log’.

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