Hey,

Every week or so, I'm noticing that CPU usage maxes out, and causes docker containers to freeze/stop working(Plex becomes inaccessible, my websites under SWAG become inaccessible etc) , then it suddenly comes back alive after about 5, 10 minutes or so. I sometimes have to kill a few dockers via terminal for it to come back alive.

I managed to catch it in the act and run a HTOP, it looks like it shows that somehow Plex is consuming more than 100% CPU?

I've attached my logs, any help would be grateful.

 

Thanks.

HTOP:

 

I have NetData running and can see when It was pinned, which is when applications started to go offline.

baldrick-diagnostics-20220802-2304.zip

 

Edited August 2, 20223 yr by jmmrly

In htop 100% is one core so if you see 700% it means it's maxing out 7 cores.

 

Probably best asked in the support thread for the particular Plex container you're using, but it seems it's got a very heavy scheduled task set up to run weekly like regenerating thumbnails, previews or such.

You could probably limit its CPU use in the CPU pinning settings if you can't do much in the container itself.

 

As it is you probably don't need to kill anything to get back to normal, just wait.

Edited August 2, 20223 yr by Kilrah