With the inclusion of the server setting Database Cache Size (MB) will plex be supplying a support doc on how best to tune this for admins and their specific system ? I have my own opinions for my system however, I’d like to see what plex recommends for any given system and its resources. BTW… tha…

I appreciate it, but I don’t think I need it at this time. Sounded like the other guy really wanted it, though :slight_smile:

@ChuckPa I did the update, increased cache to 900mb, I have a large 800mb db and a fast system with lots of ram. I’ve been chasing this issue for a log time. Does your tool work on Hotio plex docker? I used this tool last week but I’m still having issues. [image] GitHub - bullmoose20/Pl…

[image] Sittingmongoose: Does your tool work on Hotio plex docker? Yes, it should work inside any docker container. I know I have expressly given instructions how to stop Plex for Official Plex and Linuxserver.io Plex. As long as Plex is stopped and you’re in there as “root” ( uid=0 ), i…

[image] Volts: I’m also pretty sure that if you set the value larger than the database size, it won’t use more memory. Exactly my thinking also. If your DB is 500mb then why increase this cache to 1GB ? This is a db cache (at least by its name) and not a server process or some other backgrou…

Sure and I’m aware of that thread but was more pointing the question to @Volts and his comments :slight_smile: Anyhow, round the houses we have gone so I’ll head back to my OP and look for a recommendation from plex on when to change this and what we change it to ? Everyone has a perspective on wh…

Any way to run this on windows?

It’s doing precisely the same as the “low level database recovery” in this article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/

[image] anon5074910: If your DB is 500mb then why increase this cache to 1GB Well that wouldn’t make any sense now, would it? :wink: My DB is 1.98GB, and I’ve had the cache setting at 1024 since yesterday. So far, I haven’t seen the executable use more than 531MB.

This is not a DB file cache. It is a DB cache. Meaning it caches only parts of the DB. Typically these which are used frequently/recently.

Support Doc for Database Cache Size (MB)?

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OttoKerner December 14, 2022, 12:13pm 34

Because it can help some users with particularly big media collections.
Who had to resort to binary patching until now. Suggested SQLite3 DB Optimizations

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Support Doc for Database Cache Size (MB)?

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