Plex docker is crashing my server when it runs maintenance cron


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I can't seem to figure out why the PMS docker is crashing my server when it runs the maintenance task each night.

All of my drives are in good condition, swapped out all the bad ones with SMART error. Hoping that would fix the problem, but it continues.

 

I have 4 other docker images running and 2 VM's running on the server. It's only when the "Scheduled Tasks" starts for PMS then the server freeze altogether. PMS stream media without any issue or crashing.

 

Any idea where I should be looking at? 


Top before the server crashed

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top - 10:16:54 up  7:24,  1 user,  load average: 9.87, 8.22, 5.90
Tasks: 379 total,   1 running, 378 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  3.3 us,  9.0 sy, 77.8 ni,  9.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.2 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :  16019.1 total,    237.4 free,   4197.1 used,  11584.6 buff/cache
MiB Swap:      0.0 total,      0.0 free,      0.0 used.  10725.2 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
16718 nobody    35  15 1365508 129308  13196 S 634.7   0.8  41:21.15 Plex Transcoder
12719 root      20   0 4670916   1.2g  21820 S  46.9   8.0   7:01.88 qemu-system-x86
12583 root      20   0 5211772   1.6g  21912 S  13.5  10.3   7:07.51 qemu-system-x86
 4294 root      20   0  416044   5788   1036 S   7.3   0.0   7:36.13 shfs
 3888 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   4.6   0.0 258:35.21 unraidd
10691 nobody    20   0 1358968 128332  14444 S   3.0   0.8   0:14.51 mono
11072 nobody    20   0 2504584  54084   2160 S   2.0   0.3   0:04.46 sabnzbdplus
11346 nobody    20   0  298264  30088   5180 S   1.0   0.2   0:07.73 deluged
 3507 root      20   0  216016   3640   2924 S   0.7   0.0   3:39.89 emhttpd
 3534 root      20   0   13272   4412   3364 S   0.7   0.0   1:28.41 ttyd
 4410 root      20   0  782616  66660  35292 S   0.7   0.4   1:24.62 dockerd
 5664 root      20   0    9224   5864   5220 S   0.7   0.0   0:00.37 sshd
 5725 root      20   0    8868   3356   2464 R   0.7   0.0   0:06.08 top
30916 nobody    20   0 3093584 198216  36884 S   0.7   1.2   0:25.20 Plex Media Serv
   21 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:25.00 ksoftirqd/2
  648 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:44.76 kswapd0
 1526 root      20   0    8212   4504   1376 S   0.3   0.0   3:06.75 haveged
 4428 root      20   0  954272  32180  21056 S   0.3   0.2   1:22.03 containerd
11273 root      20   0    9328   4580   3864 S   0.3   0.0   0:00.06 containerd-shim
30933 nobody    35  15 1706472  55904  10228 S   0.3   0.3   0:15.38 Plex Script Hos
    1 root      20   0    2460   1844   1744 S   0.0   0.0   0:18.52 init

 

 

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Edited by sexyj
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Tried troubleshooting the issue by turning all other dockers and VM off and only PMS on. Seems like the media scanning for plex is killing the server. 

 

This is the top at the time of crash.


 

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top - 11:18:54 up 39 min,  1 user,  load average: 9.12, 6.87, 3.80
Tasks: 313 total,   2 running, 311 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  1.2 us,  3.5 sy, 91.5 ni,  3.5 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.2 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :  16019.1 total,    299.8 free,    620.5 used,  15098.8 buff/cache
MiB Swap:      0.0 total,      0.0 free,      0.0 used.  14275.0 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
25703 nobody    35  15 1365544 133392  13308 S 740.1   0.8  45:42.81 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder -codec:v h264 -i /Media/TV/Chernobyl/Season 1/Chernobyl-S01E04-The Happiness of All Mankind.mkv -threads 0 -nostats -q+
 4340 root      20   0  416084   5120    820 S   7.9   0.0   4:45.10 /usr/local/sbin/shfs /mnt/user -disks 4095 2048000000 -o noatime,big_writes,allow_other -o remember=0
 4021 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   5.6   0.0   3:46.68 [unraidd]
 5643 root      20   0   11792   6980   4312 S   1.7   0.0   0:14.84 containerd-shim -namespace moby -workdir /var/lib/docker/containerd/daemon/io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux/moby/9c36abf17d65079d59da54c6d89e36109f48739c618d1282+
 3512 root      20   0  216016   3516   2796 S   1.0   0.0   0:17.39 /usr/local/sbin/emhttpd
  646 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.7   0.0   0:22.78 [kswapd0]
 3539 root      20   0   13272   4364   3308 S   0.7   0.0   0:05.14 ttyd -d 0 -i /var/run/ttyd.sock login -f root
 4455 root      20   0  842992  65688  35076 S   0.7   0.4   0:11.12 /usr/bin/dockerd -p /var/run/dockerd.pid --storage-driver=btrfs --storage-driver=btrfs
 4473 root      20   0  811884  27940  18648 S   0.7   0.2   0:09.52 containerd --config /var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.toml --log-level info
 5867 nobody    20   0 3087432  77044  36860 S   0.7   0.5   0:16.49 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
 5900 nobody    35  15 1706448  51308  10212 S   0.7   0.3   0:11.78 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-eadbcbb45/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --se+
24011 root      20   0    8748   3236   2408 R   0.7   0.0   0:03.34 top
   10 root      20   0       0      0      0 R   0.3   0.0   0:03.48 [rcu_sched]
 1258 root       0 -20       0      0      0 I   0.3   0.0   0:00.03 [kworker/1:1H-kblockd]
 4054 root      20   0    3784   2980   2716 S   0.3   0.0   0:01.12 /bin/bash /usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/diskload
 4418 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:01.17 [loop2]
 6028 nobody    20   0  889488  47508   9484 S   0.3   0.3   0:07.22 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.plugins.WebTools] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-eadbcbb45/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstr+
19499 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   0.3   0.0   0:00.22 [kworker/u16:1-events_power_efficient]

 

 

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