dmrichards26 Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 So to keep this short and sweet, I've got a 24-core server running unRAID and a docker container with Plex. With this many cores, you would expect that transcoding would be lightning fast, right? nope When transcoding, CPU usage floats between 1 and 38 percent (the highest I have ever seen it), but never makes use of the full CPU power. Is there a limit on the Docker container holding Plex? Any way to utilize more CPU power? And yes, I've already set the plex CPU setting to "Make my CPU hurt". Ideas? Cheers! Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 So to keep this short and sweet, I've got a 24-core server running unRAID and a docker container with Plex. With this many cores, you would expect that transcoding would be lightning fast, right? nope When transcoding, CPU usage floats between 1 and 38 percent (the highest I have ever seen it), but never makes use of the full CPU power. Is there a limit on the Docker container holding Plex? Any way to utilize more CPU power? And yes, I've already set the plex CPU setting to "Make my CPU hurt". Ideas? Cheers! With none of the extra parameters set to limit a docker app's resources, there should be no limit unless Plex itself is imposing the limits. You might want to install cAdvisor so that you can outright see the utilization across the cores while Plex is running. Quote Link to comment
cirkator Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Plex transcodes in chunks. It doesn't transcode the whole movie at once. When you finished watching that transcoded piece, Plex starts to transcode the next piece and so on. Quote Link to comment
dmrichards26 Posted November 24, 2016 Author Share Posted November 24, 2016 Plex transcodes in chunks. It doesn't transcode the whole movie at once. When you finished watching that transcoded piece, Plex starts to transcode the next piece and so on. I guess I should specify - I'm talking about "optimizing" my library, where Plex transcodes the video to another copy and stores that. In this case, I believe it transcodes the whole movie at once. With none of the extra parameters set to limit a docker app's resources, there should be no limit unless Plex itself is imposing the limits. You might want to install cAdvisor so that you can outright see the utilization across the cores while Plex is running. Is this what you're looking for? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 There's a docker app cAdvisor that will detail exactly the usage of plex as it goes Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
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