Scanning Long

[IceQB]

Scanning takes forever, initial scan went fine.
Few days later its taking longer 2-3hrs.
Logs have - [WRN] Unable to find linked item at path

I did, change scan folders after change in setup.
After which I just changed scan folders in respective Libraries.

Should I have deleted all added items first & rescanned?
Or would JF not have just removed dead links & added new links?

Is this the cause of endless scanning times?

[TheDreadPirate]

What OS is Jellyfin running on? Is your storage directly attached or is it on a NAS?

[IceQB]

Ubuntu 22 on Nvme
storage mounted nas

[TheDreadPirate]

Do you have real time monitoring enabled in the library settings? If so, turn it off. AFAIK, none of the network file system protocols properly support it.

[IceQB]

OK, removed.
Running scan to see duration

...Did not make a difference

[TheDreadPirate]

What source are you using for metadata? I've seen this when someone set TVDB as their sole metadata provider.

[IceQB]

TheTVDB
TheMovieDB
Open Movie Database
Have those enabled

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Ran some tests yesterday, with no new content added scanning took 18 minutes.
Added some content & it took 19 hours to finish scanning

[TheDreadPirate]

Try switching to TMDB as the primary. TVDB has a much lower API rate limit. I'm wondering if that is part of the problem.

I just setup a test install on my Ubuntu desktop with all my media on my Ubuntu server. Timing how long it takes to add a chunk of my library.

[IceQB]

I've moved TMDB to the top & TVDB to the bottom
Will see how long it scans at next scan interval

[TheDreadPirate]

Try switching to TMDB as the primary.  TVDB has a much lower API rate limit.  I'm wondering if that is part of the problem.

I just setup a test install on my Ubuntu desktop with all my media on my Ubuntu server.  Timing how long it takes to add a chunk of my library.

This took about 75 mins.  Much longer than on the actual server where the media and jellyfin are on the same host.