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High CPU Usage

Since I updates to the new OS yeaterday the CPU usage is always high on my PR4100.
The process “restsdk-server” is constantly consuming more than 50% CPU and a bunch of memory.
What is this process?

Indexing process.

I ran a test on about 2TB of data. . . .took about 40 hours to index the first time. About 27 hours the second time (I had to do a unit reset, which triggered a reindexing)

The indexing is necessary to generate thumbnails and whatnot used for Web and phone app access.

so for about 11TB of data it will be about a week!

@pichol the following article explains the high CPU by restsdk-server indexing. If you do not want all of your shares indexed and available via web and mobile app, you can disable indexing at the Share level in My Cloud OS 5.

My Cloud OS 5: Indexing in Progress Message

Answer ID 29836

I will reduce the shares that need indexing… and if needed I will add them slowly.

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