Plex Media Server DLNA time-outs, errors, and other shenanigans

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hello,

I was so delighted to see a Plex Media Server plug-in for FreeNAS to keep my desktop workstation from being on 24x7. Installation and configuration was fine, I used a separate jail for Plex Media Server via the plugin installation process, exported my media filesystem from the FreeNAS into the jail, started the service and it worked great for a couple of hours.

It rapidly started getting slower and slower in operations [1] and DLNA in particular has just been unreliable at best, completely inoperable at worst.

I notice that even when I halt the Plex service via the script in the jail's /usr/local/etc/rc.d, there is still a process running that is plex-related:

Code:

root  4662  0.0  0.4 167196 31388 ??  IJ  Sun04PM 0:08.31 /usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/bin/python /usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/control.py start 192.168.153.18 12351 (python2.7)

I'm a little concerned about something in the package not being fully baked or set-up correctly, and that it may be related to the performance issues I'm having. (It shouldn't be this slow and it certainly shouldn't time out before completing any operation, obviously.)

In order to show what happens under repeated attempts to play from my livingroom's PS3 console, I'm including a sample of the Plex Media Server DLNA log — it's a big wall of text so I'd like to mention up front my FreeNAS system is:

- quad-core intel 9550 Yorkfield
- 8 GB of RAM
- 3x3TB raidz1 with a single pool

I have a few other plugins installed (sabnzbd, sickbeard) and another jail (for dovecot imapd)

The last few lines of `zpool iostat` look like:

Code:

bananastand  5.71T  2.42T  1.09K      0  137M      0
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    66    232  2.48M  7.36M
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    33  1.23K  356K  151M
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    118    159  1.58M  671K
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    435      9  26.5M  160K
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    240    811  25.2M  87.1M
bananastand  5.71T  2.42T    654    580  76.8M  57.3M

Post limit won't permit the log, so I've created a gist: https://gist.github.com/emory/6678586

Any suggestions/ideas? It feels like the i/o is bound up but I don't know how to quantify that. In FreeNAS 8.x my system load averages never strayed past 1 but these days they're hanging out at 2-3-4+ even with 1 system using it via NFS.


[1]: Plex clients on OS X, web, and iOS for a household

 

[sweeze]

I'm going to post this in Plugins; can't see a method to delete this thread, sorry.