Help me out with rclone and plex (cache workers)

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Hi,

I got rclone cache working on my Kimsufi vps server thanks to the help provided by one usual user of this forum and redddit. This is the rclonfig cache remote I have:

[gdrive-unencrypted-cache]
type = cache
remote = gdrive-unencrypted
plex_url = http://localhost:31400
plex_username = mymail@email.com
plex_password = ----passwordhere----
chunk_size = 10M
info_age = 168h
chunk_total_size = 64G
plex_token = ----tokenhere----

And this is the command to mount the rclone cache:

rclone mount --allow-other -vvv --dir-cache-time=168h --log-file=/home/tito/rclone-cache.log --cache-db-path=/home/tito/rclone_cache --cache-tmp-upload-path=/home/tito/rclone_tmp_upload --cache-tmp-wait-time=15m --attr-timeout=1s --rc --cache-info-age=168h --vfs-cache-mode writes gdrive-unencrypted-cache: /mnt/gdrivenoenc

I’m not using the option --cache-workers because I don’t know what would be the right value for me.

I have a Kimsufi VPS (KS-3, Intel Atom N2800, 2c/4t, 1.86GHz, 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz, 2TB disk space) and the maxmium number of direct plays that will happen simultaneously would be 3 (but most of the time it wil be just 1).

Can anyone give me an idea of what would be the best value to use?

Thank you in advance

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Normally hitting more the 5 or so per second can lead to rate limiting on your GD as the normal user generated API quotas are:

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I’d probably leave it at the default or maybe bump to 5, but not much more than that imo.

3

Thanks for yuor reply. Currently I don’t even have the --cache-workers parameter on my command. Is that the equivalent to having the parameter with the default value?

4

Yep so you are effectively using 4 atm.

5

Thank you, so I’ll keep it that way and only change it if I’m sure a different value would make something better :slight_smile: