Library Scan

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Each inotify watcher uses a fixed amount of memory. Increasing the number of inotify watchers increases memory usage on the server hosting the network share. Depending on how large your library is, that could mean hundreds of MBs or GBs more memory usage to have enough inotify watchers for your library. Not sure if there is any CPU overhead associated with that.

The default 12 hour schedule for the library scan job is just an arbitrary interval. Most library updates should only take a few minutes to complete, but can take longer if you add a lot of new content at once or you enabled chapter image extraction and trickplay creation on library scan.

It is up to you to determine what is an appropriate interval both for your needs and for your system's capabilities.