Server Version#:1.19.1
Player Version#: web client, roku app
So I’ve been working to condense some of my server environments recently, and thought I’d give plex on freenas a go. I’m coming from a VM running on an ESXi host
Old setup:
esxi host:
- dell r510
- 2x xeon x5675
- 128gb ecc ddr3
plex VM:
- Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS server
- 6 cpu cores
- 3gb ram
- 180gb virtual disk (hosted on iscsi share from freenas server)
- libraries mounted via SMB over 10gb link to freenas server
New setup:
- FreeNAS 11.3-U2
- Plex Media Server (Beta) plugin
- 2x xeon E5-2620 v2
- 96gb ecc ddr3
- jail dataset is on local raid z1 pool of 4x 1tb SSDs
- libraries mounted by the jail from the local freenas server
I currently have both setups running, and can immediately see differences between them. Freenas plugin is taking ~7 seconds to display my tv shows library, while the ESXi VM takes < 1 second.
I played an episode last night from the Freenas server on my hard wired roku ultra, and it took roughly 30 seconds of loading before playback began. Same episode playing from the ESXi VM started in about 10 seconds.
Is there something inherently slow about running plex on freenas / bsd? Is the E5-2620 v2 that much slower than the x5675? I’d like to be able to run plex on the freenas box, but not if it’s going to be this bad… I suppose next step could be setting up a similar VM on freenas, running ubuntu, and see if that performs more consistently with my old setup.
