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Hilton:
yep rebuilding thumbnails.

Because its running on an SSD the CPU is the limiting factor instead of the disk. :)

I cant do anything else with it while it's rebuilding.  :(

PS. might want to put a limit on the number of threads for pi. :)

Library
    Total files: 19978
    Audio files: 19978
    Image files: 0
    Video files: 0
    Other files: 0
Processing
    Thumbnails built: 2% (414 of 19978)
    Audio analyzed: 0% (0 of 19978)
Background Tools Running
    No tools currently running
Power
    No entries that affect the system power state
Media Center
    Version:
    Install path: /usr/lib/jriver/Media Center 21/
    Interface plug-ins:
    JRMark: never run
    Memory used:
    Handles used:
Advanced System Info
    Memory & CPU
        CPU features:
    Operating System
        Unknown OS

bob:

--- Quote from: Hilton on September 10, 2015, 08:02:18 am ---yep rebuilding thumbnails.

Because its running on an SSD the CPU is the limiting factor instead of the disk. :)

I cant do anything else with it while it's rebuilding.  :(

PS. might want to put a limit on the number of threads for pi. :)

Library
    Total files: 19978
    Audio files: 19978
    Image files: 0
    Video files: 0
    Other files: 0
Processing
    Thumbnails built: 2% (414 of 19978)
    Audio analyzed: 0% (0 of 19978)
Background Tools Running
    No tools currently running
Power
    No entries that affect the system power state
Media Center
    Version:
    Install path: /usr/lib/jriver/Media Center 21/
    Interface plug-ins:
    JRMark: never run
    Memory used:
    Handles used:
Advanced System Info
    Memory & CPU
        CPU features:
    Operating System
        Unknown OS

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How about in Options->Tree and View_>Thumbnails-> setting the Thumbnail creation threading to Low?

mwillems:

--- Quote from: bob on September 10, 2015, 11:33:41 am ---How about in Options->Tree and View_>Thumbnails-> setting the Thumbnail creation threading to Low?

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I tried that recently and it showed slightly improved stability in a library with no thumbs built, but it didn't completely stop the instability (I could still provoke a crash by navigating to a view with very few thumbs built, just less reliably).  Additionally, from a usability perspective, MC on the Pi is significantly more responsive and usable if you pre-build all thumbs.  Everything works faster and better whether using a remote or the local interface.

So my first order of business whenever I setup a new instance is to manually ask JRiver to build all thumbs (whether as part of import, or through the options menu), and come back the next day to start actually using it.  I've successfully done that four or five different times with MC 20.  Trying to do that (without any other interaction) is giving me eventual crashes on MC21 regardless of thread priority (usually after a few thousand thumbs built). Thumbnailing does not create any similar instability on MC 20 on the same installs with the same settings, so I think this is a regression.  

bob:

--- Quote from: mwillems on September 10, 2015, 11:48:36 am ---I tried that recently and it showed slightly improved stability in a library with no thumbs built, but it didn't completely stop the instability (I could still provoke a crash by navigating to a view with very few thumbs built, just less reliably).  Additionally, from a usability perspective, MC on the Pi is significantly more responsive and usable if you pre-build all thumbs.  Everything works faster and better whether using a remote or the local interface.

So my first order of business whenever I setup a new instance is to manually ask JRiver to build all thumbs (whether as part of import, or through the options menu), and come back the next day to start actually using it.  I've successfully done that four or five different times with MC 20.  Trying to do that (without any other interaction) is giving me eventual crashes on MC21 regardless of thread priority (usually after a few thousand thumbs built). Thumbnailing does not create any similar instability on MC 20 on the same installs with the same settings, so I think this is a regression.  

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It sounds like an issue with the worker (JRWorker).
Maybe it's running out of memory.
None of my libraries are huge (6k is about the biggest), how big are yours?

mwillems:

--- Quote from: bob on September 10, 2015, 03:04:07 pm ---It sounds like an issue with the worker (JRWorker).
Maybe it's running out of memory.
None of my libraries are huge (6k is about the biggest), how big are yours?

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About 60k audio files, so that may be part of the story (when I manually build thumbs it's crashing after several thousand).  Looking at my munin logs, memory stress does seem to be part of the picture (memory is near maximum before the crash).  Not sure what changed between 20 and 21 to trigger it though as the same size library chugs right through on MC 20.

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