when playing a file in plex off the rclone mount all movies above 30mbps bitrate seem to skip during playback by 1 to 4 seconds every few moments. i have tried varying chunk sizes from 2M to 64M and the issue still persists. The server has a full duplex 1gbps connection so i dont believe that to be the issue. it also has 64GB of ram and a decent xeon cpu with 4c/8t.
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
``` rclone v1.57.0
os/version: ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit)
os/kernel: 4.15.0-163-generic (x86_64)
os/type: linux
os/arch: amd64
go/version: go1.17.2
go/linking: static
go/tags: none ```
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Drive
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
seems to be a client issue with chrome. tried on another device but the file did the same thing. Also tried the same file on local storage and it didnt happen. Very weird. I'll be testing that out over the day to make sure its fully fixed.
however can i get some advice on the flags im using?
im trying to build a scan cache using vfs but am having some trouble finding a good spot.
smaller chunk size gave me individual file cache sizes of 60ish MB while higher seemed to give me 20 to 20 MB. but not always, seems a little random.
smaller seems to give better start times on the files.
have a large library and the cache will be multiple TB if its 60MB+ per file.
want the vfs cache for the better scan times, especially with several thing scanning said files all the time and will help with keeping usage low from scans on the google side.
Basically any advice you can give me on the flags im currently using or the ones i could use for a better experience would be great.
my server is pretty active with my biga** family haha. trying to get to the a good spot sooner rather then later lol
"Scan cache" does not mean full VFS cache. Since you're already using RC, all you need is to prime the "dir" cache, which resides entirely in memory. To do that, you want to use something like this:
Just saw this. Yeah, this will not work with what I proposed. I would generally advise against it anyway, but in your case an always updating full cache would probably work better.
its definitely storing files in the cache directory i specified. it seems to be working.
The idea being that i have emby, jellyfin, plex, sonarr, radarr, etc all on 1 machine so the file bits used from scans should all be used frequently and stay in the cache.
guess im just trying to make sure that my flags are doing that and the numbers make sense with the expected playback and use