Anyone else out there notice that with each update Plex releases, performance and connections are becoming slower and slower? Even on LAN.
Nope! My Plex system’s performance is as good now as it has ever been. I think it is something else causing the slowness you are seeing.
Diffidently not, it has only improved
Maybe your server hard disk is filling up? More precisely, the disk where the Plex data folder is located.
Maybe you have so many items in your database, that it is time to shift the Plex data folder onto a dedicated SSD?
Maybe you still don’t use one subfolder per movie? So that each time you enter a movie’s preplay page there is a long pause, during which Plex has to scan each and every file in your movie folder - which are now higher in numbers than when you started out. Why Plex always must reprocess the items?
I do not have my movies in individual folders.
I have a quite large library although not as large as some.
So, at least in my experience, those are not reasons for Plex to become slow.
I have a very large drive containing my Plex data folder so that “could” be an issue for the OP I guess.
I do not have an SSD for my Plex system but I have tested such for Plex data storage and I have to say I did not see any real increase in speed when using it. It just was was an extra complication to my setup. I think the gain for cost equation of a SSD is VERY overrated for Plex.
You only see your use case.
As soon as you start using subtitles or other local assets, it can make a big difference if the number of movies in one folder exceeds the low hundreds.
I agree that the difference for movies and tv show is rather low.
But once you get into music (and lots of it!) or a huge photo library, you will feel the difference.
What I have noticed this year is receiving a message that connection to server is not fast enough.
My local client devices are Nvidia Shield TV and Apple TV 4. Both are connected via RJ45.
My Plex server is a Dell PowerEdge T20 with a Xeon processor.
What I have noticed with the Nvidia Shield if I play the same video via the Plex addon in KODI no issues.
Maybe the type of files you regularly play has changed? You know, we used to have H.264 files in 1080p and that was fine.
But now we may have HEVC 4K and TrueHD files.
What is the exact type of cpu in your machine?
Could we see the Plex XML info of one affected video?
For me there shouldn’t be any slow down in hardware. Plex folder is kept on NAS devices that all have four gigabit lines going to them and load balanced. They all feed into an enterprise grade layer 3 switch. Both computers that run the server software are i7 Quad core. Not the newest generation but should be fast enough as they do nothing else. Plenty of RAM too. So hardware doesn’t seem like the bottleneck.
I’m talking about loading up the UI via either tablet interface or web. Metadata seems to load slower than before. Starting up videos seem to take more time and sometimes gets stuck on a black screen with the spinning circle. Once I get playback started it is mostly stable unless I’m on my nVidia Shield (but hopefully working to a solution on that in another thread).
Mostly I use Plex on my LAN when I’m at home. My laptop is mostly hardwired but there are 4 access points in the house all managed by a central wireless manager to ensure smooth and fast handoffs. When I’m away the upload speed at the house is 150mbps. I’m fairly certain that is a lot more than most people who seem to average 7-15mbps in my area.
When you say “Plex folder”, are you talking about the actual media files or the Plex data folder?
Media data. Plex data folder should be on each of the server machines. Both are SSD.
Newer versions of Plex use more complex SQL queries when building the library views. (Mainly due to the added ‘Collections’ feature.)
A healthy main Plex database is essential.
You could perform the database repair procedure proactivley.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201100678-repair-a-corrupt-database/
This will force Plex to re-build some index tables upon the next start, so please allow it some minutes to do this and only assess the performance after that.
What else is the Shield doing? I know it has amazing specs, but if you have been gaming on it and such, maybe doing a cache clear will help
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