don’t know what is going on but i am running the latest plex server on HTPC… i don’t have a whole lot of media (HTPC media points to a NAS on the network) and Media scanner keeps hitting the NAS (reads) for hours at a time and i have less than 500 movies/shows.nothing on the NAS has changed and i haven’t added any media in more than a week.
right now the HTPC has CPU usage between 20-30% and pulling 350-500mbit/s reads from the NAS. the scanner has been running for hours already…
4 hours it’s still chewing… i solved the problem… disabled Plex media scanner service. have a look Kodi source code for tips =)). it runs quick and performance is great.
If you just setup plex and added in a new library if you set it to enable thumbnail generation (BIFs) it’s scanning from your media and creating them.
Try turning off Video thumbnail generation in PMS Library settings and set your Scheduled tasks to a time that use generally don’t use plex for Entertainment. I use 8am -10am, works a charm.
