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Unraid Docker Swells with Plex playing

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I have a weird problem, I have lifetime Plex Pass.

My docker is at 19%, then when either watching something or recording live tv from my HD homerun, my docker image will swell all the way up to 100%, then crash after a couple hours and drop back down.  it also drops back down after I either stop playback or recording ends.

I don't know what I am missing but it is quite annoying...

I know you probably want screen shots of some stuff, just tell me and I will post them

Thanks

 

  • Community Expert

Go to Tools-Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post in this thread. 

 

Also, post your docker run for plex as explained at the very first link in the Docker FAQ pinned near the top of the Docker Engine subforum 

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Is plex transvoding, and if so have you mapped the path for transcoded files to be external to the container?

  • Author

This is my settings

 

 

Edited by JDLWEB

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37 minutes ago, JDLWEB said:

This is my settings

That isn't the docker run I asked for but maybe it will be enough. That screenshot doesn't show everything which is why we ask for docker run. For future reference, here is the link:

 

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Where does DVR store its recordings? What do you have set for transcode directory in Plex?

  • Author

Screenshot attached

 

transcoder.JPG

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According to the screenshot of the container settings the path of the transcode folder inside the container should be /transcode.

  • Author

Thank you very much, that did fix it!

Something so simple...

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You need to understand container mappings or you will continue to make mistakes like this. Plex has no access to the /mnt/cache/Plex/transcode path in Unraid storage, so it creates that path inside the docker image. It can only access Unraid storage by using a mapped container path. That lets it access the storage of the corresponding host path.

 

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