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#257365 29-Sep-2019 10:22
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Today, the fan in my NUC was very noisy. It turned out Plex Media Server and Microsoft Edge were taking nearly all of the CPU.

 

Also, the NZXMLTV EPG was constantly refreshing with (something like) 'The Guide is Empty.

 

I removed Plex and reinstalled from Plex.TV.

 

However, nothing has changed.

 

Anyone else having similar issue?




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  #2326614 29-Sep-2019 10:38
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Is it perhaps scanning your library?

 

I had Plexserver installed on my unRAID box - which by design is meant to spin down most of the time - but found Plex was keeping it awake more often then not - so I binned it. Might have been my set up...but I prefer Kodi anyway as my media software/aggregator anyway.



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  #2326725 29-Sep-2019 13:50
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So the thread title suggests plex server is using alots of CPU cycles so you uninstalled it yet the problem remained..... so maybe not plex media causing the problem?

 

I run plex media on a NAS which has a pretty weak cpu.  (Dual Core 2.13GHz.).

 

Was the server indexing or transcoding/downloading something?

 

 

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  #2326738 29-Sep-2019 15:21
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afe66:

 

So the thread title suggests plex server is using alots of CPU cycles so you uninstalled it yet the problem remained..... so maybe not plex media causing the problem?

 

I run plex media on a NAS which has a pretty weak cpu.  (Dual Core 2.13GHz.).

 

Was the server indexing or transcoding/downloading something?

 

 

I use Acronis 2020 for backup and have recovered my NUC from 3 days ago and now 7 days ago. The issue remains.

 

I think I will investigate how I re-install windows 10 (Home).




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Net: Grandstream 1 x GWN7062 Router, 1 x GWN7665 Access Point
Storage: Synology DS216play NAS, 2 x 6TB
Media: 3 x Amazon FireTV. Echo, Dot, Spot
TV: 2 x Samsung H6400 55" LED TV, Panasonic TH-P50G10Z 50" Plasma TV
Mobile: Samsung Galaxy A52 5G
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  #2326792 29-Sep-2019 17:32
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i'd say it was transcoding content... can be pretty hefty if it doesnt have hardware to offload.




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  #2326921 30-Sep-2019 06:57
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FYI

 

Re-installing Windows seems to have corrected the issue.




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  #2327034 30-Sep-2019 10:38
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Can you update the thread title ?

 
 
 
 

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  #2327049 30-Sep-2019 11:05
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afe66: Can you update the thread title ?

 

 

 

Not sure what you want me to change the title to.

 

I have set my last post to be the Answer.




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  #2327055 30-Sep-2019 11:11
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If you were using the data from here: https://nzxmltv.github.io/xmltv/ then there were issues (now fixed) with the data which caused those symptoms. (Not the Edge thing, I think that is a red herring)

 

 







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  #2327059 30-Sep-2019 11:17
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gbwelly:

 

If you were using the data from here: https://nzxmltv.github.io/xmltv/ then there were issues (now fixed) with the data which caused those symptoms. (Not the Edge thing, I think that is a red herring)

 

 

 

 

Yes I was using nzxmltv. Thank you for your post. I am going to remove my 'Answer'.




PC: Dell Inspiron 16 5640 (Windows 11 Home), Dell Inspiron 7591 2n1 (Windows 11 Pro), HP ProBook 470G1 (Windows 10 Pro), Intel NUC7I5BNH (Zorin)
Net: Grandstream 1 x GWN7062 Router, 1 x GWN7665 Access Point
Storage: Synology DS216play NAS, 2 x 6TB
Media: 3 x Amazon FireTV. Echo, Dot, Spot
TV: 2 x Samsung H6400 55" LED TV, Panasonic TH-P50G10Z 50" Plasma TV
Mobile: Samsung Galaxy A52 5G
Wearable: Gear S3 Frontier

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