The key here is caching as you said. The multiple calls from plex seem to exacerbate that. I wonder if acd_cli is caching it itself or if it is doing something different with OS file caching.
This has tread has an interesting point about Plex cache.
The key here is caching as you said. The multiple calls from plex seem to exacerbate that. I wonder if acd_cli is caching it itself or if it is doing something different with OS file caching.
This has tread has an interesting point about Plex cache.