I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04, where Plex worked perfectly well for a long time now, to Ubuntu 18.10. After upgrading, I noticed that Plex is now hogging one CPU-core at 100% at all times – it’s literally not doing anything actively, there is no one watching anything, there is no scanning going on, n…

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Ubuntu 18.10, Plex hogging 100% of a CPU-core 24/7 when idle

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nyet February 1, 2019, 9:43am 13

Same on debian.

1.14.1.5488 is broken
1.14.0.5470 is fine

Plex Media Scanner high CPU

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Ubuntu 18.10, Plex hogging 100% of a CPU-core 24/7 when idle

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