Hi - I have a new install (less than 2 days) of Plex 1.1.3 on TrueNas Electric Eel (24.10.0.2) and have created Storage for all storage options. On a 1TB mirror drive I have a dataset for Plex’s logs, and Plex’s configuration which based on Dataset statistics has the following allocated: Plex Con…

We need better details on your entire setup. Hardware listing, like in the expandable signtature at the bottom of my post. Pool details, etc. [image] Joes Rules to Asking for Help Resources Purpose: To assist people posting clear and informative requests for help and t…

Just because you don’t have snapshots configured doesn’t mean that TrueNAS hasn’t configured any (on the ix-apps dataset). You should probably check. But yes, it does look like Docker is using the space. I would start apps again and once disk space used starts to ramp up, I would do a directory li…

I have done a little more digging and have found it is growing in the overlay2 directory inside of docker. I have all storage configurating configured to mountpoints (not using ix-Apps) I’ll dig into the logs of Plex to see if I can learn anything there. The reclaiming of space occurs as after sto…

My guess is a simple one. Plex is just writing to a directory in the virtualised file system that is NOT being mapped to a host path. If you open a CLI inside the container you should be able to look at the virtual file system and see what it is and whether you only need to delete it and mount a h…

Thank you @Protopia – that is a great idea (and does seem like the right one). I do know how to get into the CLI for the virtualized system, however what is the best way to find the file(s) in the virtualized system that is opened / being written to? (Is there any better way than searching using l…

There is almost certainly a linux utility to list tree sizes. But it depends what O/S commands are available in the docker container. A lot are based on Alpine in order to keep the size down and that cut down Linux is short on such commands. But you can probably run this as root against the files t…

Thanks again @Protopia --the du command does in fact do that, however what I see is inside of the container it does not differentiate the already mapped directories. I hope that is just a minor inconvenience – trying your idea.

I started watching the internal file system and the problem seems to have gone away. I did add the “Apps” group access to the mount location where the transcode storage is set. (The “Apps” user already had access) - I will watch it over the next week and get back with the community.

It is entirely possible that if Plex finds it cannot e.g. write transcoding files in the normal location due to permissions it then writes them to an alternative location which is not a host path. This would create the symptoms you have reported.

[image] Protopia: It is entirely possible that if Plex finds it cannot e.g. write transcoding files in the normal location due to permissions it then writes them to an alternative location which is not a host path. In my experience that always causes the transcoding to just fail. @chuckles72 …

Plex App on Causes High Pool Usage / Stop App reclaims space

Apps and Virtualization

SmallBarky November 20, 2024, 3:25am 2

We need better details on your entire setup. Hardware listing, like in the expandable signtature at the bottom of my post. Pool details, etc.

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Plex App on Causes High Pool Usage / Stop App reclaims space

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