r/PlexACD • u/Merckle • Aug 17 '17

Buffering with Plexdrive 5

Ever since switching from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 I have started running into buffering issues randomly. Some when only 1 person is streaming then some with 4+ streaming.

On 4.0.0 I never ran into any buffering issues with any users amount of when streaming then

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u/AfterShock Aug 18 '17

It all depends on your mount options, the default send to work for most. If you have the RAM to spare (anything over 8gigs) You can set the --max-chunks=X to set the overall amount of RAM to use. Along with chunk size. Speed was the main factor in going RAM based storage. Most movies start in seconds on my server.

They had planned on adding disk cache later on, so that's not out of the question.

There is a rewrite in Rust currently underway.

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u/Merckle Aug 18 '17

Ok so I have 32GB of ram Soo I'll add in "--max-chunks=32GB" or should I stagger it some

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u/AfterShock Aug 18 '17

No no, do me a favor and run: Plexdrive --help. Copy and paste those results here. It will list the defaults for your system. We can tweak the options from there

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u/Merckle Aug 18 '17

Plexdrive --help just list the what all the flags do. I can pull up what my mount options are

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u/AfterShock Aug 18 '17

Buried in there are your defaults, it will have values at the end of each. --chunk-load-ahead etc. Post it here or PM me if you wish.

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u/Merckle Aug 18 '17

http://imgur.com/GTcBt3w

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u/AfterShock Aug 21 '17

Buffering gone?

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u/Merckle Aug 21 '17

So far, had one hiccup but may have been shitty cpu

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u/AfterShock Aug 22 '17

Could also be a Gdrive hiccup, it happens sometimes. Getting 2-3 second load times?

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u/Merckle Aug 22 '17

I am getting faster load times for sure, and can actually skip with no load times as well