Poor perfomance when the movies over 10K

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I don’t know if somebody like me has collected over 10K movies; I’d say the performance of Plex is abysmal even leaf through the library. (The posters need over 10 seconds or more to appear or not appear at all)

I’m running Plex on CentOS8 with AMD 7502P 32 cores / 128G RAM / G port speed, so I don’t think it’s due to hardware or network latency but lack the optimizer for such big volumes.

And I’m very annoyed by the app running on Apple TV. Almost all libraries have been pinned automatically on the sidebar and without the “unpin all” option at all. Can you imagine that it took me 1 hour to unpin them?

If you insist on automatically pin the library to the sidebar, maybe it should give me “unpin all” options at least.

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Just a though but have you considered some sort of cache ssd to run PMS. As I understand things that will speed up Plex in the area of library searches and posters.

I am by no means an expert, so if I am completely wrong I do hope someone will correct me on this point.

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Go here and remove all those servers from your account, which you are not using anymore: https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/settings/devices/pms

With over 100 libraries, you are definitely “holding it wrong”.

And yes, putting the Plex data folder onto an SSD is definitely recommended with a large media collection.

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Actually, it’s running with NVME, SSD / NVME did improve the performance but not in this case.
I can’t put all 10K movies in one library, so need some categorize, that’s why over 100 libraries.
And thanks, I’ve removed all the obliterated servers from the Plex account, that’s another issue that perplexed me over the years because of no entry in the web interface.

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Have you made sure the Plex data folder is on the ssd?

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Why not?

I can kinda understand separate libraries for highly specialized types of movies. e.g. Animation vs. feature films.

But to create separate libraries for genres, like “adventure”, “western”, “comedy” etc. is IMHO driving it too far.

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There’s no way to store so much mount data on NVME, the plex running on nvme (so the libraries on it), the data mounted via 10G switch (costs additional 50 euros/mo, LOL) from the nearby server on the same rack.

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Uhm… the data folder is not the same as your media library. I am talking about the data that plex uses to keep track of your library and how to access all of the media.

For example, my media library atm is 8 TB but my actual Plex data folder is just under 3 GB of data it uses to manage the media library.

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Plus why pin them when you can sort by any of those categories if you just tag them right?

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My media library is over 100TB, and the Plex data folder is about 30G.
And I did not pin them intentionally; it’s been pinned automatically when I added the new library.

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So you could then move/migrate just the Plex data to the ssd? 30G should not be to much for any SSD I could imagine in your system.

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The plex data is on NVME with the plex itself. (2x4T NVME with LVM)

Btw: I’ve tested the Emby, not as good as Plex.

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LOL I do well for myself but damn…

Only idea I have left is run multiple servers… :thinking:

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I would also like to install 2 ssd in raid1 on my nas, but I don’t know how I can move the plex on those ssd, I didn’t want to move the whole operating system.

can such a thing be done?

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Please open your own thread. Your question is not really the topic of this thread.

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Yeap, I’m currently running 10 servers with 2 plex premium accounts, respectively.

4 for moves/TV/music, and the last for photographs.

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