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Posted: **05 Oct 2022, 04:36**

The system resources view has been showing over 50% cpu usage for almost a week. According to the "top" command, 1 cpu core is consumed 100% by a mediaindex task:

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top - 12:52:13 up 13 days,  3:09,  1 user,  load average: 1.14, 1.14, 1.10
Tasks: 194 total,   1 running, 119 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu0  :   3.4/4.1     7[|||||||                                                                                             ]
%Cpu1  : 100.0/0.0   100[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||]
GiB Mem : 51.1/1.791    [                                                                                                    ]
GiB Swap: 22.6/0.954    [                                                                                                    ]

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ S COMMAND
 3903 xxxxx+  20   0  280.8m  13.3m 100.0  0.7   9322:24 S mediaindex
 2817 xxxxx+  20   0 1353.6m   8.1m   3.3  0.4 237:28.96 S restart_service
 5205 xxxxx+  20   0 1922.7m  35.5m   1.3  1.9  42:12.82 S TOSDaemon
15725 xxxxx+  20   0   29.3m   2.8m   0.7  0.2   1:07.95 R top
29696 xxxxx+  20   0    0.0m   0.0m   0.7  0.0   2:54.66 I kworker/0:2-eve
30259 plex      20   0  361.7m 221.9m   0.7 12.1  29:11.90 S Plex Media Serv

Yesterday I received a bunch of notification emails that "Media indexing is complete" and what was updated:

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4:08 PM - A total of 28 media indexes were added, including 18 pictures, 0 audio files, 0 videos and 10 documents
4:34 PM - A total of 34 media indexes were added, including 15 pictures, 0 audio files, 0 videos and 19 documents
4:45 PM - A total of 26 media indexes were added, including 16 pictures, 0 audio files, 0 videos and 10 documents.
5:06 PM - A total of 34 media indexes were added, including 15 pictures, 0 audio files, 0 videos and 19 documents.
5:10 PM - A total of 1 media indexes were added, including 1 pictures, 0 audio files, 0 videos and 0 documents.

There have been no notifications since so what is it doing? Should I just disable it and enable it every so often?

Posted: **05 Oct 2022, 11:19**

If you keep copying files to your TNAS, mediaindex will scan those files and add them to the database.

Posted: **06 Oct 2022, 01:22**

I don't know if it was me changing the configuration or the configuration itself but I have a Canon multi-function printer/scanner for which I created a new user "Canon". I must not have been thinking clearly at the time but instead of adding the shared folder that is the destination of the scanned files, I somehow was able to add folder "/homes/Canon". Once I removed it and added the proper folder, the cpu usage did go down to 0%.

Now if I try to select "/homes/Canon" it almost always adds it as "/home/Canon" (without the "s", as it should) except for one time it did add it again as "/homes/Canon". I removed it again and for the life of me I can't repeat it.

Regardless, mediaindex is no longer consuming 100% cpu.

Posted: **12 Oct 2022, 06:40**

For days mediaindex has been consuming cpu resources even though there's literally nothing for it to do.

I'm just going to disable it and rely on Plex.

Posted: **12 Oct 2022, 18:16**

This has been observed and is being fixed.

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