# Server Crashes while trying to optimize database

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [July 11, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832 "2020-07-11T23:00:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Deaerator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/deaerator/32/82676_2.png) [@Deaerator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Deaerator)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832/1 "2020-07-11T23:00:55Z")

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Server Version#: 1.19.5.3035  
Player Version#:  
Everytime I try to manually optimize database the server crashes.  
logs are attached.[Plex Media Server Logs\_2020-07-11\_19-56-16.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/p0IjrIdwlQOFTI5mhHZqizeYoxd.zip) (7.4 MB)

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**Author:** ![daviangel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@daviangel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/daviangel)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832/2 "2020-07-11T23:33:27Z")

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Make sure you got plenty of diskspace. If you runout Plex doesn’t tell and will just crash as you found out AFAIK. Happened to me all the time till I moved it to bigger drive with tons of space!

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**Author:** ![Deaerator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/deaerator/32/82676_2.png) [@Deaerator](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Deaerator)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832/3 "2020-07-12T01:25:26Z")

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This is on a 1TB NVME drive, lots of space.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-crashes-while-trying-to-optimize-database/612832/4 "2020-10-10T01:25:30Z")

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