For the past few weeks I've been trying to figure out why my rclone mount (S3-based cloud storage account) would hang/stall every morning when I woke up. Through various troubleshooting steps, I finally determined it was Seerr that was causing the problem when it triggered a full library scan of Plex. This was causing Plex to perform extensive on-the-fly media analysis that would completely fill up my VFS cache as well as stall the mount so it and Plex would lock up. Disabling Seerr completely stopped the issue. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, is there anything I can do prevent it (short of no longer using Seerr)?
#Seer causing rclone mount to stall daily
brittle scarab
wanton yoke
Why is it doing a on the fly media analysis?
That should not be the case
Plex full scan that seerr fires all it asks for from plex is metadata. Metadata that should exist when the media is scanned into plex
brittle scarab
I’m not sure, but it definitely is. Disabling Seer stops the issue completely.
wanton yoke
I’m not sure, but it definitely is. Disabling Seer stops the issue completely.
Then your plex is configured wrong.
The full scan never calls for a library refresh on plex
Because its not a POST request
Its a GET request
To get the metadata stored in plex db not the media itself.
And this is true for every setup of seerr people have been using since overseerr released 2018
Metadata that should be stored when plex scans the media in when you add to library.
You can see it in the code as well. That we only call to get the data from db.
And I can confirm as well since my media also exists on an rclone mount
brittle scarab
Thanks for the clarification. I'll try and do more troubleshooting to figure out what is going on then.
brittle scarab
Can you think of anything that Seerr could be doing that would cause Plex to start doing the type of media analysis that might overload/stall the mount? I've been going through trial and error / process of elimination, and it really seems like disabling Seerr is the only way I've been able to stop the consistent overnight stalls/restarts.
wanton yoke
Can you think of anything that Seerr could be doing that would cause Plex to sta...
Like I said. All seerr does is read your plex metadata from its db
Metadata that should be stored during media scan in plex
We dont do any post requests to start a library scan on plex.
The only thing I can think of is you have your plex db stored in a network share? Or you have plex configured in a way that it does not extract any metadata during scan and only accesses when requested (didnt even know if that was even a thing) but I can assure you thats all we do. Read metadata. If plex is started a media analysis whenever something calls a GET request for metadata, then you might have plex set up in an unconventional way 🤷♂️