Hi,
I have a pi3 running Plex/radaar/sonar/transmission it was all working nicely and streaming without buffering as all the files are 1080p MP4 h264.
I’ve added a couple more HDD and syncthing to keep other files over there, but now Plex is buffering every 10 seconds of playtime.
Is there a way that when Plex is streaming all other software shuts down? Or at least how can I manually shut the other software down, so I can at least test my theory.
Many thanks
You can stop individual services with dietpi-services.
To stop them automatically on the fly while Plex is streaming is a bit more difficult.
You could write a bash script which detects somehow when plex is streaming and thek stops other “unnecessary” services.
Thanks had a look at dietpi-services and saw I could tweak things a little to try and limit the resources the other software can use hopefully that makes a difference
│ ●─ Single Service Options ─────────────● │
│ nmbd : disabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ smbd : disabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ transmission-daemon : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ plexmediaserver : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1,2,3 │
│ jackett : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ sonarr : enabled | included | Affinity 0-3 │
│ radarr : enabled | included | Affinity 0-3 │
│ syncthing : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ cron : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ dropbear : enabled | included | Affinity 0,1 │
│ openvpn : disabled | included | Affinity 0-3 │
│ dietpi-vpn : disabled | included | Affinity 0-3 │
│ dietpi-cloudshell : disabled | included | Affinity 0-3 │
│ Add : Add missing service to DietPi-Services │
│ ●─ Global Service Options ─────────────● │
│ Stop : Stop ALL above services │
│ Restart : (Re)start ALL enabled services
I even tried stop all above services and then just started Plex and the same buffering is happening on the same MP4 files that were previously playing smoothly:/
You can monitor your system resources with htop while plex is working, maybe you can gather some info about what is going on.
0[|| 2.7%] Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||581M/960M]
1[||| 4.0%] Swp[| 23.2M/1.06G]
2[|| 2.0%] Tasks: 21; 1 running
3[|||| 7.9%] Load average: 1.02 0.57 0.26
Avg[||| 4.3%] Uptime: 07:35:01
PID△USER RES NI CPU% TIME+ Command
1 root 9512 0 0.0 0:20.72 /sbin/init
151 root 7760 0 1.3 0:02.15 ├─ /lib/systemd/systemd-journal
178 root 4992 0 0.0 0:01.20 ├─ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
531 root 2492 0 0.0 0:00.13 ├─ /usr/sbin/cron -f
533 root 708 0 0.0 0:00.00 ├─ /usr/sbin/rngd -f
534 root 5440 0 0.0 0:00.39 ├─ /usr/sbin/smartd -n
548 root 184 10 0.0 0:00.00 ├─ /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22 -W
5153 root 2652 10 0.0 0:00.36 │ └─ /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22
5155 root 5332 10 0.0 0:00.15 │ └─ -bash
5213 root 3960 10 2.0 0:01.34 │ └─ htop
617 root 4540 0 0.0 0:00.63 ├─ /sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -
622 root 5424 0 0.0 0:00.04 ├─ /sbin/dhclient -4 -v -i -pf
665 jackett 460 0 0.0 0:00.14 ├─ /bin/dash -c /opt/jackett/ja
677 jackett 230M 0 0.0 1:05.01 │ └─ /opt/jackett/jackett --No
669 debian-tr 12108 0 0.7 1:40.44 ├─ /usr/bin/transmission-daemon
671 plex 64280 0 4.0 2:36.30 ├─ /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Ple
793 plex 13720 0 0.0 1:04.09 │ ├─ /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/
5195 plex 31788 0 1.3 0:13.15 │ └─ /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/
672 root 1404 0 0.0 0:00.02 ├─ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --n
4861 sonarr 77348 0 0.0 0:09.80 ├─ /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/sonar
5034 radarr 119M 0 0.0 0:17.10 └─ /opt/radarr/Radarr -nobrowser
5224 root 3256 0 0.0 0:00.00 │ └─ /lib/systemd/systemd-udev
5213 root 3960 10 2.0 0:01.23 │ └─ htop
I can’t see anything that looks maxed out when the buffering is happening - I guess it’s a network issue?
your systems seem using SWAP. Could be an indication for high memory usage. How does it behave while watching? Does it change if the movie is stream from another HDD or local storage?
I don’t know what SWAP is - I’ve always had my media on the same HDD - I’ll try adding/playing something from another drive this evening
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