Server Version#: 1.32.0.6918 Looking at the logs it appears that Plex thinks that nearly all of my media has changed, all the time, therefore the scanner is constantly running. It then continually uses more and more RAM and VRAM until the server is unresponsive. Trying to figure out why Plex thinks…

Do you have a cron job that changes permissions?

Flippin’ genius. Yes. I guess I should get serious about my group/user configuration instead of relying on my cron job. Thanks.

There is something around the forum from ChuckPa about this. I am betting you are using a sledge hammer approach and resetting ALL permissions for ALL files ever X, Let me see if I can find that post, but it would look for files that need fixed, and then just update those.

[image] Plex Linux 1.31.2.6739 constantly scanning Metadata & Adding Files I’ve been teaching folks that if they want to ‘scan’ for permissions. find /directory-top -type d \! -perm 0755 -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /directory-top -type f \! -perm 0644 -exec chmod 644 {} \;…

Yes, yes and yes…I am changing all files whether they need it or not.

Future ref to all who find this: Now listed in [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Selectively changing directory and file permissions. PMS 1.31.1 and above monitor your media for file permission changes in addition to media content changes. This was p…

To close the loop on this. I was using a sledgehammer approach to fixing my permissions as seen here. [image] These jobs were running every 5 minutes. I then turned off those jobs and created a SABnzbd post processing script that runs only on the directory for which new content is downloaded wit…

@DancherBoi May I suggest ? Put quotes around "$1" find "$1" -type d ! -perm 0775 -exec chmod -R 775 {} \; find "$1" -type d -exec chown -R debian-transmission:media {} \; This way, if you get something with a space in the name, it won’t blow up

I had set that originally, but when I ran in console it didn’t recognize. I guess in the script it will. Thanks, I have updated my script. Let’s see what happens.

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ChuckPa April 9, 2023, 10:28pm 8

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