Unresponsive server after Coverart plugin adjustment

[altramarine 21]

Good day,

 

Emby 3.0.8200

CentOS7.1511

 

 

Yesterday I've adjusted Coverart treatment for Folder, Media folder and Thumbs. Right after that, emby has become unusable.

I tried logging into emby dashboard via browser and while I see the usual server menus (dashboard, settings, etc), I see a "spinning" ring which does not let me do anything

If I stop the server and restart it, briefly it allows me to access settings but after a minute or so the "spinning" returns and renders the servers unusable again.

Playback via Kodi or any other browser based devices is also impossible.

htop shows whole bunch of emby processes with:

/usr/bin/mono-sgen --optimize=all /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh

My thinking is that emby is busy readjusting my massive library with the new coverart. Is that correct?

I left it "thinking" over the night but this morning the behavior hasn't changed.

Where can I look to see what emby is really doing? I checked /var/log/emby-server.log but that does not contain anything useful.

Perhaps there is a way to revert my adjustment in the coverart plugin but I highly doubt it.

 

Halp!

Thank you!

Edited October 19, 2016 by altramarine

[fc7 123]

Good day,

 

Emby 3.0.8200

CentOS7.1511

 

 

Yesterday I've adjusted Coverart treatment for Folder, Media folder and Thumbs. Right after that, emby has become unusable.

I tried logging into emby dashboard via browser and while I see the usual server menus (dashboard, settings, etc), I see a "spinning" ring which does not let me do anything

If I stop the server and restart it, briefly it allows me to access settings but after a minute or so the "spinning" returns and renders the servers unusable again.

Playback via Kodi or any other browser based devices is also impossible.

htop shows whole bunch of emby processes with:

/usr/bin/mono-sgen --optimize=all /usr/lib/emby-server/bin/MediaBrowser.Server.Mono.exe -programdata /var/lib/emby-server -restartpath /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh

My thinking is that emby is busy readjusting my massive library with the new coverart. Is that correct?

I left it "thinking" over the night but this morning the behavior hasn't changed.

Where can I look to see what emby is really doing? I checked /var/log/emby-server.log but that does not contain anything useful.

Perhaps there is a way to revert my adjustment in the coverart plugin but I highly doubt it.

 

Halp!

Thank you!

The default location for logs is: /var/lib/emby-server/logs/

 

 

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[altramarine 21]

Thank you, thats great to know. I couldn't figure that out since I couldnt really see anything on the dashboard with locations to logs.

I managed to change Coverart preferences for above described items back the way it was.

Restarted emby service and it appears to be stable again.

I will log over the log file to see where things took a different turn. Again, my assumption is that emby would need to re-do something because of CoverArt change ?

[Luke 42077]

Yes it will and Cover Art will require additional cpu/memory resources when it is used, so be aware. image processing can be costly so you have to look at the size of your images along with the hardware that you have and decide if it's something that you want.

[altramarine 21]

Definitely, I will be more careful next time, like creating a separate profile for certain media library items. That said, I did see CPU spike up to around 30% utilization so that gave me a hint something was happening.

Thanks guys!