Hi,
I would really like to have a setting to reduce the CPU power used for the PMS indexer.
Whenever media is added to PMS (Core i7 Mac mini), the indexer it’s going nuts CPU-wise, and my fans go crazy. Depending on when stuff is coming in, this can be quite annoying, as the server is in our living room.
I would much rather prefer a “slower” but more quiet indexing service.
Do you have the latest version of plex server, a few releases ago, they made it so indexing is MUCH faster and shouldn't take long enough for the fans to ramp up.
I am running PMS 0.9.8.14 and I too have issues with PMS eating CPU Cycles when I add content. The only reason I do media indexing is for the Now Playing features. I'd turn it off in exchange for a timestamp rather than visual representation.
Another cool feature would be to set a time window for media indexing.
It took around a week to do a full index of 2-3TB of media running 24/7 so it would be a shame to drop the features i've spent all that time preparing for but just adding 20GB of media causes huge problems with the indexing upkeep.
I turn off auto indexing and i setup a crontab on my system to run this command at 5am
/Applications/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex\ Media\ Scanner --index --section 5
Your section may be different of course
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (option to reduce CPU priority for maintenance tasks)
