I am using the default app catalog version of plex, and have set the “plex transcode storage” to tmpfs in the GUI
Since this does not provide a mount point like it did with the previous emptyDir storage type, I am unsure of what to fill in on the Plex side in terms of path.
Keep the default /transcode ? How can I find this out?
I tried running df -h to look at what temporary storage was created but I see multiple entries for tmpfs and I see an entry called applications/transcodes. none of these have storage that matches my above input i.e. roughly 8GB.
Any idea where to start to make sure this is working?
I’ve been going off of faith. A dumb way I can think of checking though would be to start a few transcodes & see if there is any spike in writes on the disk that was previously hosting plex in reporting.
If not, then I guess it is working?
I literally was just looking for this answer and I think I found it.
Since you know the size of your tmpfs (7629Mb) you can hop into the shell for the app and run df -h.
You should see a 7GB entry associated with tmpfs
This should indicate that you are running in ram so /transcode should be correct within the plex transcode settings.
Looking for confirmation if anyone can confirm.
I see multiple candidates but none that fit:
tmpfs - 13G - /run/user/3000
applications/transcodes - 193G - /mnt/applications/transcodes
tmpfs - 63G - /tmp
tmpfs - 63G - /dev/shm
tmpfs - 5.0M - /run/lock
tmpfs - 13G - /run
applications/ix-applications/releases/plex/volumes/ix_volumes/transcode - 183G - /mnt/applications/ix-applications/releases/plex/volumes/ix_volumes/transcode
None of these fit my size config, but the last one looks like the best candidate?
HW transcoding seems to be working though, so the blind faith thing may just be the route.
