Huge amounts of traffic running Jellyfin with rclone

[j2c]

Hello!

Here is my environment: JellyFin RD 10.8.13 Linux Docker on a VPS. I use Nginx Proxy Manager to route traffic to the jellyfin app.

The media is on an rclone remote from RealDebrid trough a Zurg server.

I get daily traffic to RealDebrid in the neighborhood of 500 GB to 1 TB but I watch a few episodes, maybe a movie per day. I turned off Scan Media Library and  Real Time Monitoring because I use autoscan for that.

When I start to play something everything is working smoothly for the most part but the received traffic to the VPS is at least 10x the transmitted maxing out the 200mbit connection I have allocated to the VPS. I believe Jellyfin is still requesting some data from the rclone mount because when I restart the Jellyfin container the traffic goes to about 33 KB/s.

If someone ran into this, I'd love to hear how you solved it.

[TheDreadPirate]

Apparently rclone has a forum. IMO, you'd probably get more support there since few people here use rclone for their media.

[j2c]

Thanks for the response! I'll look it up.

[toytown]

I haven't used rclone for a while, but last time i did i was mounting my GDRIVE in it.  You could start the docker up and then monitor access to the mounted folder using lsof, this will tell you exactly what process and files are being accessed.  An example below, repeating every 2 seconds.

"lsof +D /mnt/media/dir1 -r 2"

output should be nothing, till you start a movie then you should see something like

"COMMAND    PID USER  FD  TYPE DEVICE    SIZE/OFF      NODE NAME
ffmpeg  2024075 jellyF 4r  REG  8,128 18124725551 1646743080 /mnt/media/dir1/Aliens (1986).mkv"

It might help you narrow down what process is accessing files from the remote, if real-time monitoring is turned off then you should only see activity when viewing a film or manually initiating a scan.