mpe_server at 100% CPU

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Since I started to fill my MBLD with pictures and videos, I’ve recently noticed that mpe_server is running basically constantly at 100% CPU load.

All the picture and video indexing is supposed to have finished a while ago, according to the status at the media setup page (it is neither rebuilding nor re-indexing). So I don’t really understand, what that process is doing.

What is mpe_server actually doing, is it responsible for (SmartWare) Backup, or DLNA, or something else?

Cheers,

Frank

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I have never seen the mpe_server.  Where do you see it? If you access the MBLD by SSH? 

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This is a service that does a number of things - mostly around the DLNA server. It handles metadata extraction, video thumbnail generation.etc. If you have a large library, it will take a while for this service to complete i’ts tasks.

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Hi Tony,

Thanks for your quick reply! (By the way: Nice to have this forum where also staff members participate – even if that makes you prone to being attacked harshly in some cases.)

I have watched this now, and it seems indeed that the process goes back to normal after ~1 day. This was after I had added 3.7GB in 60 *.mts files (avchd format). Would that be considered normal behaviour… seems a bit long to me to index 60 files?

I’ll keep watching it with more files that I have added now.

Cheers,

Frank

PS @Vadir: Yes, one can see that process running when accessing with SSH. also the box becomes noticably less responsive when that happens.

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Frank,

No problem. These are my products (I am the product line manager for our consumer NAS products), so I like to hear what the customer is saying and interact - even though it gets me in hot water sometimes with you all :slight_smile: I use the feedback in these forums as a direct line into our development process for current products and next generation products I am working on.

Tony

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I too noticed this today when I restarted the nas. 

You make it a little more responsive by increasing the swap size, I added an extra 2gb.