May 20, 20242 yr UnRAID 6.12.10 Hi all, I read so many different stories, I am confused. I have Plex, Emby and Tdarr, on my /tmp folder with transcoding. This lately gave my server the issue that the webGUI was not working correctly. Settings where not saved, GUI stayed white, needed reboots, and stuff like that. The next settings was Plex, Emby and Tdarr, working in /dev/shm/ which also seems NOT the be the best solution, since all the kernel and modules are running there. Since a short while I am using a GPU for hardware transcoding. What do you guys suggest what to do with the transcoding settings? Still use something like tmp or dev/shm, or remove this setting completely from Plex, Emby and Tdarr? Long story short: best practices for RAM settings for Plex, Emby and Tdarr. Thanks.
May 20, 20242 yr I use /dev/shm/ for my transcoding needs in Emby, i also used it in Jellyfin when i ran that and have not yet encountered a problem. /dev/shm/ is like a built in ramdisk that makes sure it can only use 50% of the available memory. When you used /tmp it would have been allowed to fill all your memory and might have been the reason why stuff started to fail, so IMO never use /tmp ! That said, the best thing to do is get a cheap sata SSD and use that as a scratch drive, basically transcode to that. You avoid problems like temp files not being cleaned and there for filling your memory and sata SSDs if buying in the 250GB to 1TB range are cheap. They can also handle a lot more writes than some people think. I plan to do this my self at some point when i mess with the server again. Edited May 20, 20242 yr by Yock
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