Serviio

Hello,
I've been monitoring my system and I'm having a problem with CPU usage and Serviio. I'm running on a Windows 7 system, latest version. I have everything turned off (No search for updates, no keep library up to date, I don't use Online services, ALL metadata is unchecked, I don't have transcoding). Everything is OFF.

In fact, I don't even have a network connection on as I unplugged my ethernet card. Note: The second 'network' is virtual and not active. About every 2-3 minutes I see my cpu spike and the 'system' sucking up CPU for no good reason.

I believe that there are several issues happening in the program.

1. The first one is that I have all updating turned off, as well as online streaming (never use) and yet the program is still 'checking' for online. From Log Entry #1: 2013-01-20 09:40:10,373 DEBUG [FeedUpdaterThread] Checking for new and expired online resources. I believe that issue #3 is also similar as I have all 'updating' features turned off yet Serviio continues to try to update the library. But issue #2 is my concern.

2. Issue #2, the main issue of CPU usage. Log Entry #1 below is occurring every time the CPU spikes and lasts for 1-2 minutes. Something isn't quite correct there. Of interest is the entry: "DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Will advertise again in 00:02:53 (advertisement duration is 1800 sec.)" As this appears to correspond to each CPU spike.

3. Issue #3, Log entry #2. When I first started researching this I had a lot of music files that Serviio kept trying to attempt over and over again. At first I thought that it was these files there were causing a performance issue but after removing all my music from serviio leaving only video the problem remained. BUT, there is a problem here as I have told Serviio NOT to try to keep the library updated and NOT to search for new media YET Serviio is constantly trying to add the problem files.


Thanks for all of your work. This is a very nice and useful program! I hope that this might help out.

Good luck and thank you again,

Doug.


Log entries #1
2013-01-20 09:39:54,476 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Found 2 network interfaces to advertise on
2013-01-20 09:39:54,477 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Multicasting SSDP alive using interface eth7 (VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter) and address 169.254.43.237, timeout = 0
2013-01-20 09:39:54,477 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Sending 6 'alive' messages describing device 7577a094-f8a2-32ec-9d58-1c20fb826d32
2013-01-20 09:39:56,278 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Multicasting SSDP alive using interface eth3 (Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)) and address 192.168.2.100, timeout = 0
2013-01-20 09:39:56,279 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Sending 6 'alive' messages describing device 7577a094-f8a2-32ec-9d58-1c20fb826d32
2013-01-20 09:39:57,805 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:39:57,805 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100
2013-01-20 09:39:58,079 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Will advertise again in 00:02:53 (advertisement duration is 1800 sec.)
2013-01-20 09:40:00,805 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:40:00,805 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100
2013-01-20 09:40:03,805 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:40:03,805 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100
2013-01-20 09:40:06,822 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:40:06,823 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100
2013-01-20 09:40:09,822 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:40:09,822 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100
2013-01-20 09:40:10,372 DEBUG [PlaylistDAOImpl] Reading all Playlists
2013-01-20 09:40:10,373 DEBUG [FeedUpdaterThread] Checking for new and expired online resources
2013-01-20 09:40:10,373 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading all OnlineRepositories
2013-01-20 09:40:12,822 DEBUG [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Received a valid M-SEARCH message for search target urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1 from address /192.168.2.100:56571
2013-01-20 09:40:12,822 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.2.100


Log Entry #2

2013-01-20 09:02:05,036 DEBUG [FeedUpdaterThread] Checking for new and expired online resources
2013-01-20 09:02:05,036 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading all OnlineRepositories
2013-01-20 09:02:05,416 DEBUG [PlaylistDAOImpl] Reading all Playlists
2013-01-20 09:02:05,417 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Playlist index has unresolved items, checking if they are in the library now
2013-01-20 09:02:05,417 DEBUG [PlaylistParser] Parsing playlist 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\index.m3u'
2013-01-20 09:02:05,417 DEBUG [PlaylistParser] Reading playlist from a local file
2013-01-20 09:02:05,417 DEBUG [PlaylistParser] Found a suitable playlist parser strategy: M3UParserStrategy
2013-01-20 09:02:05,418 DEBUG [PlaylistDAOImpl] Reading items for playlist 1
2013-01-20 09:02:05,419 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---So-Far-Away.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,419 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---So-Far-Away.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,420 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---So-Far-Away.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,420 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Mercy,-Mercy,-Mercy.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,420 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Mercy,-Mercy,-Mercy.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Mercy,-Mercy,-Mercy.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-&-Randy-Crawford---Street-Life-(Full-LP-Version).mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-&-Randy-Crawford---Street-Life-(Full-LP-Version).mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-&-Randy-Crawford---Street-Life-(Full-LP-Version).mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\09---Crusaders---Sugar-Cane.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,421 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\09---Crusaders---Sugar-Cane.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,422 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\09---Crusaders---Sugar-Cane.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,422 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-(1).mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,422 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-(1).mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,423 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-(1).mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,423 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Way-Back-Home.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,423 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Way-Back-Home.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,424 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Way-Back-Home.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,424 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-Sweet-'N'-Sour.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,424 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-Sweet-'N'-Sour.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,425 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders-Sweet-'N'-Sour.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,425 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders--Street-Life.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,425 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders--Street-Life.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,425 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders--Street-Life.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,426 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Southern-Comfort.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,426 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Southern-Comfort.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,426 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Southern-Comfort.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,426 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Spiral.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,426 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Spiral.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,427 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Spiral.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,427 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Feeling-Funky.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,427 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Feeling-Funky.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,428 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Feeling-Funky.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,428 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---(Live-In-Japan)-So-Far-Away.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,428 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---(Live-In-Japan)-So-Far-Away.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,429 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---(Live-In-Japan)-So-Far-Away.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,429 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Greasy-Spoon.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,429 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Greasy-Spoon.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,430 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\Crusaders---Greasy-Spoon.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,430 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---Carmel.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,430 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---Carmel.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,430 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders---Carmel.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later
2013-01-20 09:02:05,431 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Found playlist item that has not been added yet: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders--Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-.mp3
2013-01-20 09:02:05,431 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Looking up a media item for file path: E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders--Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-.mp3, ignore case: true
2013-01-20 09:02:05,431 DEBUG [PlaylistMaintainerThread] Item 'E:\Main Data\Music\Jazz\Crusaders\dvd-jazz-1\Jazz-Mainstream\Crusaders\The-Crusaders--Keep-That-Same-Old-Feeling-.mp3' cannot be resolved to an entity in the Serviio library, will try again later

Turning off updates only works for local files. If you don't have any online sources this will only take 1 millisecond.


The advertisement is instant, as you can see from the logs. basically just send a multicast message on the network and finishes.


This is a maintainer thread for playlists. It's not affected by turning updates off, instead it tries to find all the playlist items in your library, in a case you first share the playlist file and add the music later.

First off, thank you for the response. But... as you wrote,
"Turning off updates only works for local files. If you don't have any online sources this will only take 1 millisecond."
Well, I mentioned that I don't have any online sources and whatever Serviio is doing is not taking milliseconds. Perhaps this is not the issue but something is a miss.

Perhaps between issue #2 and #3 the problem lies. As you wrote,

"This is a maintainer thread for playlists. It's not affected by turning updates off, instead it tries to find all the playlist items in your library, in a case you first share the playlist file and add the music later."

As I don't have any playlists defined and I don't share any since I don't define any. All I use serviio for is servering up my own videos to my Samdung TVs. I only view by "folders' by "display by content" and I've disabled all other presentation.

As this 2-3 minute process is causing system spikes there is definitely something a miss. Perhaps one of the libraries is causing unnecessary processing. I'll put my network monitor on it in the next few days and see if there is more than just CPU usage.

Off topic of this thread but raised in other threads.
As others have mentioned why are people concerned about CPU in other posts, I find that somewhat funny to even question the concern in those posts. But I'll answer that one. I would like to put Serviio on a low-end, low wattage atom CPU box. Having a gaming system that not only heats my office room but the video card sucks more energy than my entire Atom based netbook is not something I desire.

Thanks again. I'll try to get a network monitor on it as well as seeing if using process analysis tools show anything unusual.

I encourage you to continue this analysis.

First off, you should remove access to the playlists that Serviio is checking to eliminate that processing. I'm not sure how you do this but perhaps a clean install is the best way. Then you could compare a boot and 5 minutes of processing with serviio to one without Serviio.

I have found that notepad+ allows me to open the Serviio log while Serviio is running and so when I note something like a spike, I open the log to see exactly what Serviio has just done.

Hope that helps.

I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

Yes, I was using Notepad++ also and I reloaded when I saw the spike occur. That's when I picked out the portion of the log (Entry #1) that occurred at the time of the spike.

You have playlists, the one from this log is at

Thank you! I would never have thought of looking for old play lists in my folders! It is probably 6-8 years old from when I was running an
old Linux box.

BTW, I'm probably not going to continue investing issues as I've discovered the PS3MediaSErver project. As it is opensource and I have gotten my
hands on the code, compiled it, and I'm debugging it, and extremely poorly written though that it is It does what I need. Just the basics. While Serviio is better at probably most things than the PS3MediaServer, with the other project I can do what I like to do the most, program and problem solving. I'm still using Serviio but not as my main utility.

Keep up the great work. You've done a great job and I wish you all the best.

Thank you! I would never have thought of looking for old play lists in my folders! It is probably 6-8 years old from when I was running an
old Linux box.

BTW, I'm probably not going to continue investing issues as I've discovered the PS3MediaSErver project. As it is opensource and I have gotten my
hands on the code, compiled it, and I'm debugging it, and extremely poorly written though that it is It does what I need. Just the basics. While Serviio is better at probably most things than the PS3MediaServer, with the other project I can do what I like to do the most, program and problem solving. I'm still using Serviio but not as my main utility.

Keep up the great work. You've done a great job and I wish you all the best.
PS: Yes, it was 8 years old. lol
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