I'm just wondering if it's normal to see shares being accessed when they are not actively being used?  For instance:

 

 

I have nothing currently accessing the "Movies" share.  Also, just prior to taking this screenshot it was saying there were 3 streams accessing "TV", which isn't accurate.  I checked all my docker containers and none of them were doing anything (CouchPotato, Sonarr, Syncthing), so I'm not sure what this could be.  I also noticed that when this happens, I am suddenly using a lot more CPU.

 

 

Is this something I should be concerned about?  How can I narrow down what/who is accessing these user shares?

 

 

 

EDIT:  If I refresh the "Main" tab in the web GUI, I can see the "read" is going up on my disks.  Something is definitely accessing my data.  I checked the logs and no unRAID processes like parity check/sync, mover, etc are currently running.

You can install Dynamix Active Streams to view open/active streams. See http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36543.0

You can install Dynamix Active Streams to view open/active streams. See http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36543.0

 

 

Perfect, thank you.  It's showing another computer on my local network (10.0.0.3).  That's the HTPC that Plex is currently installed on, but Plex isn't showing any activity.

 

I've checked that PCs network activity though and it's definitely busy.  Showing about 900Mbps receive and 20Mbps send.

 

 

 

EDIT:  It's definitely PMS up to something.  When I shut it down, all streams stop instantly.

 

 

EDIT 2:  After looking around on the HTPC it appears to be updating some "Deep Analysis" files which I now know are updated automatically (I believe every few days).  I guess this is just another reason I should be moving PMS over to my unRAID server; it's eating up all of my network bandwidth, haha.

Even in the v5 days it was recommended to keep the Plex data store on the cache drive rather than the array because Plex is constantly spinning up its data drive.  Annoying.

This is probably thumbnail creation or something like that, just disable it and problem solved.