Performance Issues with Plex

[Stormblessed21]

Hey everyone,

 

I just recently migrated to an unRAID server for Plex, so I'm still working out a lot of the kinks and learning every day more about the OS.

 

However, I've been experiencing some significant performance issues with the Plex docker (binhex-plex) since I installed it. My specs on my rig are as follows:

 

Ryzen 7 2700X

16GB DDR4 RAM 3200mHz

GTX 970 Graphics

Three 6TB HDD's (one for parity) and four 4TB HDD's installed on my array.

120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD for Cache

 

I have hardware transcoding enabled so that the GPU can transcode through the 970 (seems to be able to do 3-4 streams at a time, if not more) and have the /config AppData path set to - /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-plex - after following some instructions on trying to achieve better performance.

 

Unfortunately, I'm still finding that the server is having a lot of trouble. The "Movies" section seems to load pretty well within Plex, however the "TV Shows" more commonly fails to load and says that the server is offline when attempting to access it. Menus in general are extremely slow.

 

I adjusted my media so that all the Movies and TV shows are under one "media" folder that the docker is pointing to (rather than the whole array as I had before) as well.

 

Could this be a hardware issue? Do I potentially need more than 16GB of RAM or need to get an NVMe SDD in order to increase the read/write speeds of the cache? Or have I set something up wrong with the docker?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[ChatNoir]

Is your appdata share on a cache pool or on the Array ?

Attach your diagnostics on your next post, it might provide useful information.

[Stormblessed21]

I have the appdata share set to cache pool prefer, however the binhex-plex docker was set to only save metadata to the cache pool via /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-plex for the /config file.

 

Diagnostics attached! I have noticed that the only real hiccup is when attempting to access "Home" and the "Recommended" tab on TV Shows. Otherwise, if I'm simply searching for the entire library, it loads no problem and very quickly.

plexserver-diagnostics-20220304-2144.zip