Restart Windows on a Schedule

[nagetech 69]

Howdy!

 

I could have sworn there use to be a way to do this, but I can't seem to find the option. Is there anyway to setup Emby to restart every night, let's say around 3am, automatically. I can't seem to find a way to enable scheduling this. Any help would be super appreciated!~

[Eigeplackter 91]

There‘s a plugin for that somewhere in the forum.

Just cant find the topic right now.

 

found it:

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by Eigeplackter

[GrimReaper 4749]

There was back in the day, had been discontinued AFAIK. 

If running Emby as a service, you could create scheduled task to restart. 

[Eigeplackter 91]

 

@chef recreated it. Running on my syno since monday.

[nagetech 69]

Thanks for the link! Downloaded it and it is now on my to do list for this weekend

 

Enjoy your weekend everyone! 

[Luke 42083]

Why do you think you need to restart the server every night?

[Eigeplackter 91]

@LukeI once reported and extremly high memory usage, you might remember.

General solution was removing plugins, in this case it was the "SmartPlaylist" plugin.

 

Even though I see an incline in memory usage by emby I cannot fathom in any way.

It's not as enormous as in the linked topic anymore.

 

When I restart the emby app it's memory usage is about 0.3GB on my Synology.

Daily restart is set to 2:45am.

This was the only user activity on my emby server today, playtime of 5 episodes-

Additionally I added another tvshow season plus 3 other episodes to my emby library.

And right now my memory usage by emby ist at 1.26GB (while my db is around 0.15GB of size).

 

As my DS920+ officially only supports 8GB of memory and I run several docker containers (i.e tinymediamanager, paperlessngx)

memory is a rare good.

I upgraded to, not officially supported, 20GB memory in my NAS this week, nontheless I like to

keep general memory consumption low. So I ended up restarting emby server every night.

 

 

 

[nagetech 69]

I also like to reboot it as it 100% clears the transcode folder, cleans up memory usage, and guarantees come the next day, I along with ALL my users wake up to a snappier happier emby. 

 

I've even had compliments from my users that since I started doing a daily restart of the software (not that they know that is what I am doing) that everything is always snappy. Well that, and all the caching strategies I setup in general around the system. This whole month has been the month of fine tuning my server

 

I'll let you guys know if I have any problems with the plugin.

[Happy2Play 9783]

@nagetechHave you set your database cache size and vacuumed your database?

Performance Tweaks - Tutorials and Guides - Emby Community

 

[nagetech 69]

Yes I have! I loved the fact you guys finally added that to the GUI instead of having to do it with the XML file.

[nagetech 69]

Just had time to install the plugin and set it up.

 

Thank you for making that easy @Chef 

Server now reboots on the daily and I have one less thing on my list to worry about.

Happy Monday everyone!