RasPlex caching

[gerardmansvelder_gmail.com]

Hello,

Would you mind explaining how the caching mechanism currently works.
Does it only cache in memory, or does it actually cache on the filesystem.
Reason for asking is that I usually turn off all my devices when I am not at home.

I personally would not mind using a large(r) SD card if that would result in having a filesystem cache.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

 

[a_wein]

Since RasPlex uses only about 1.5GB of your SD-Card, it would not benefit from using a larger one. Invest some money to get a fast Class 10 card and everything should be fine.

[gerardmansvelder_gmail.com]

Thanks, I already have a Class 10 card. I just wanted to understand in depth how the caching works, and whether power cycling has any influence, which it would have if some of the caching is done in memory.

[Jahislove]

hi

i'm interested in caching mechanisme too

how many movies can be hold in the cache ? is it possible to extend it ?

[LongChair]

The caching mechanism grabs images from PMS ans stored them locally on the SD.

Then it will load them from SD instead of from PMS.

Thus having a fast SD (class 10) will help performance a lot.

Caching uses usually less than a hundred megabytes on a reasonable library. so even with a common 4Gb SD, you should be fine.