Server Version#: Latest Player Version#: Latest In the past during the maintenance window I would hear much disk activity as I assume it performed some quick checks and then the disks would go back to sleep. About a month ago I redid my whole library and split up the media into separate drive let…

I think that depends on how powerful the system is you’re running PMS on and what PMS is allowed to do during scheduled maintenance. If you have Generate video preview thumbnails turned on then it might take a lot of time (and a lot of disk space) to generate these for all your video’s. If it is doi…

I do have preview thumbnails and credit detection turned off for each library. I guess i’ll just set the maintenance window for 12 hours and see if it eventually calms down… Here’s a link to my current setting for maintenance… [image]

“Perform extensive analysis during maintenance” will have to read all of your 70tb of media in it’s entirery. Looking at your settings, that’s probably what’s taking time (this won’t show up as an activity in Plex Web). If you measure your read speed on your disks, you can calculate how long time t…

What is the purpose of perform extensive analysis? Why does it need to read all the data? And I would assume once it does it would stop? Will it run again at some point?

That specific feature analyses how much bandwidth is required to play each file. If turned off, files that hasn’t been analyzed will use it’s reported bitrate x2. This is fine but can be inaccurate in some cases. The only way for Plex to know the exact bandwidth requirement is to read through the e…

Ok, I guess I will just widen the maintenance window and let it do it’s thing then as it sounds like once it’s finished it won’t need to keep running

Will scheduled maintenance ever stop running?

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OttoKerner March 22, 2024, 10:47am 3

See Start System Scan for Intro and Credits - #2 by OttoKerner for a few pointers.

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Will scheduled maintenance ever stop running?

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