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RogerWeir
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Hi all.

 

Running a lot of testing on Emby for MacOS at the moment, potemtially retiring Plex. So far so good, but after a lot of bashing today I noticed my Mac Mini server had slowed to a crawl, with CPU constantly hitting 100%. Activity Monitor reported 3 ffmpeg threads were almost all of the cause, apparently spawned by EmbyServer. At the time I discovered this, no content was being used and theses processed had all been running for over an hour. Killing the processes bought my Mac Mini back to life,

 

Question: Is this a known issue for EmbyServer on MacOS?

 

Details:

Server Mac Mini running MacOS 10.14.5 Mojave 8GB Ram. This has been hosting a Plex server for a couplr of years now.

Posted

Hi there, we're sorry to hear about this. Can you please try the new 4.4 release that just went up today? Thanks !

RogerWeir
Posted

OK, I'll do it now. Thanks for the quick reply.

RogerWeir
Posted

OK, I did this and repeated an earlier test. Watching on Activity Monitor, the server created an ffmpreg process (62% CPU, a bit high...), I rerminated playback and the process also ended. Excellent. I'll keep my eye on it over the coming days.

 

One more quick point, is there anyway of knowing a devices available storage (iPad etc) when downloading content from the server?

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Thanks for the feedback.

 

 

One more quick point, is there anyway of knowing a devices available storage (iPad etc) when downloading content from the server?

Not currently, although that's not a bad idea.

RogerWeir
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Mmmm... still have problems. Server CPU again at 100% and totally unresponsive again. Reboot (3rd today). Sorry guys but I'll have to stop the Emby testing as I need a stable server. I'll try again in few months.

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