Asustor AS5304T
Plex Web or Plex for Windows (vpn on or off)
My CPU on the NAS runs pretty consistently. Nothing playing 1%. Direct play inside the network 3 to 5%.
But, inside the network with nothing playing the CPU goes from 1% to 40 or 50% as soon as I open the dashboard. And subsequently goes back to 1% as soon as I exit out and go back to the home screen. The CPU stays high as long as I have the dashboard open.
Even if i play something it barely jumps up so why only in the dash board?
I wonder if the method Plex uses to query CPU or RAM utilization is just inefficient on that platform.
I also wonder if the other items on the Activity/Dashboard page are causing high load.
By default the BANDWIDTH graph is Real Time and refreshes every second.
Populating the BANDWIDTH graph requires a database query.
If you change the BANDWIDTH graph from Real Time to All, it will stop refreshing every second.
Does that lower CPU utilization?
If so, I wonder if there’s a database issue. How big is the com.plexapp.plugins.library.db file?
Hi Volts, thanks for your response. I did what you suggested which was a good idea, and it did help slightly. 50% cpu down to about 30% but something still wasn’t quite right.
I performed the following steps.
About 2 days later I checked the dashboard again and it was riding at 0.65% and has been fine ever since
Another Plex mystery lol
It was doing something.
