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

or, transcode to ram. I use the following in user scripts (which I found on here) #!/bin/bash mkdir /tmp/PlexRamScratch mount -t tmpfs -o size=4g tmpfs /tmp/PlexRamScratch Whenever I transcoded to just tmp or any already created subfolder it would fill and lock up the system. With a folder of a specified size like this, I'm my experience, It may fill up and halt the transcode the first time it fills the ram, but after (even after reboot) that I've never had any issue with pl