Plex: Guide to Moving Transcoding to RAM
Hey everyone, just thought I'd put this up here after reading a syslog by another forum member and realizing a repeating pattern I've seen here where folks decide to let Plex create temporary files for transcoding on an array or cache device instead of in RAM.
Why should I move transcoding into RAM? What do I gain?
In short, transcoding is both CPU and IO intensive. Many write operations occur to the storage medium used for transcoding, and when using an SSD specifically, this can cause
@alturismo & @mgutt
I now have a working solution.
Put this into your 'Extra Parameters':
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=4000000000
Then go to your Plex transcoding settings and set the path to '/tmp':
Tested this after 5 restarts and the permissions for '/tmp' are always:
After the first start:
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 80 Feb 1 15:36 tmp
After a restart:
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 60 Feb 1 1
