On FreeBSD it appears that Plex Media Server doesn't properly implement kqueue to allow the "Update my library automatically" feature to work. It's a real hassle to lose this core feature. I've already set my "update my library periodically" to be hourly which is already considerably more-frequent t…

Properly implement kqueue to allow PMS to auto-update library on filesystem change (FreeBSD)

dick April 10, 2016, 3:12pm 14

find /media | wc -l
7512 files

find /media -type d | wc -l
754 folders

sysctl kern.maxfiles
522256

sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
470025

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