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media scan takes a long time - SuperficialNight - 2023-12-20
I have a dir with around 8000 videos. Total, all have thumbnails, etc.
They are populated with metadata already from previous scans, but regardless, the scans can take up to 4-6 hours to scan just that one folder. If everything is already there, it should be a lot shorter.
I'm doing a scan media library right now.
I did some investigations. It seems ffmpeg is constantly running in the background and actively writing to disk, regardless if anyone is connected or if a scan is actively happening.
Is there some settings in the libraries that could cause this or maybe something I'm doing wrong?
Edit:
Could it also be due to low core counts?
Edit2:
it seems to be writing to my home dir im assuming it possibly is writing to .cache/jellyfin
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RE: media scan takes a long time - tmsrxzar - 2023-12-20
disable these 2 in your library entries
Enable chapter image extraction
Extract chapter images during the library scan
RE: media scan takes a long time - SuperficialNight - 2023-12-20
(2023-12-20, 05:32 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: disable these 2 in your library entries
Enable chapter image extraction
Extract chapter images during the library scan
Thanks for the reply but i already have them off so its not those settings
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RE: media scan takes a long time - Venson - 2023-12-20
What plugins do you have enabled?
RE: media scan takes a long time - tmsrxzar - 2023-12-20
then for further recommendations i would need to see the server log and get the server specs
*some plugins also cause high utilization
RE: media scan takes a long time - SuperficialNight - 2023-12-20
(2023-12-20, 05:52 PM)Venson Wrote: What plugins do you have enabled?
I have these enabled
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RE: media scan takes a long time - Venson - 2023-12-20
Well i would point onto the Subtitle extract plugin causing the high utilization.
RE: media scan takes a long time - SuperficialNight - 2023-12-20
(2023-12-20, 06:16 PM)Venson Wrote: Well i would point onto the Subtitle extract plugin causing the high utilization.
Does not seem to be it here are some images
ffmpeg sessions
cpu usage and home dir i/o usage
Note the I/O and the low CPU usage. The HDD where everything is stored has no reads or writes; its only activity is on the home partition.
RE: media scan takes a long time - Venson - 2023-12-20
Could you please upload your latest logfile to an external site like pastebin? Without seeing the arguments for the ffmpeg processes i cannot tell you what they are doing.
Also, are you running two jellyfin instances at once?
RE: media scan takes a long time - SuperficialNight - 2023-12-20
(2023-12-20, 06:44 PM)Venson Wrote: Could you please upload your latest logfile to an external site like pastebin? Without seeing the arguments for the ffmpeg processes i cannot tell you what they are doing.
Also, are you running two jellyfin instances at once?
where are log files generated to?
.local/share/jellyfin/log
if it is that then there are logs from a few days ago inside it but no recent ones
Edit:
nevermind i figured it out
give me a few