Real-time monitoring delay on Windows 10

[Pancake2 0]

Hey there,

 

Just wanted to say, I'm very happy with how Emby works on Windows, but I just wanted to check if this behaviour is normal:

 

I have realtime monitoring enabled for my libraries, and it seems to work fine according to the logs, but I'm not sure if it should take this long to update, maybe something is hanging it.

 

Emby Server version: 4.1.0.26

System: Windows 10

 

I attached a relevant logfile for you to check, but my question is specifically about this:

2019-04-22 09:16:52.006 Debug LibraryMonitor: New file refresher created for D:\TV\Game of Thrones

2019-04-22 09:18:08.586 Debug LibraryMonitor: Timer stopped.

2019-04-22 09:18:08.587 Info LibraryMonitor: Game of Thrones (D:\TV\Game of Thrones) will be refreshed.

2019-04-22 09:18:08.706 Info App: Creating Season Season Unknown entry for Game of Thrones

 

 

 

What exactly is this Timer on the second line?

My problem is that it takes a whole minute after the librarymonitor is triggered to get this "Timer Stopped" message, and then get it actually refreshed. After that, it updates fine.

 

Thank you very much for the support and keep up the good work!

[Happy2Play 8340]

I would assume it is the built in delay in the system.xml.

<LibraryMonitorDelay>60</LibraryMonitorDelay>

[Pancake2 0]

Indeed, you are right.

I changed it from 60 to 5 and it happened in 5 seconds.

 

Any reason to keep it as high as 60 seconds?

I'm thinking now of keeping it lower.

[ebr 14949]

Indeed, you are right.

I changed it from 60 to 5 and it happened in 5 seconds.

 

Any reason to keep it as high as 60 seconds?

I'm thinking now of keeping it lower.

 

Yes, because it is quite likely that more changes are coming and we don't want to be kicking off a scan/refresh then canceling it then kicking off another one etc. as more and more files get changed.

 

So, we wait until the activity has stopped for about a minute before starting the scan.