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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Minidlna consistently running at very high CPU usage

I've got minidlna running on a box on my local network and the reason I chose it, obviously, is because it's supposed to be a lightweight DLNA server.

Recently, however, I noticed that the box it was running on had the fans running very loudly and all the time.  A quick check on "top" confirmed that minidlna was the culprit.  Restarting the service brought the CUP usage (and fan speed) down to reasonable levels, but it doesn't seem to stay there.  I've googled and not been able to find  a decent explanation or solution.

Here is my minidlna.conf:

# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
#network_interface=eth0

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
#   can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
#   + "A" for audio  (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
#   + "V" for video  (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
#   + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=A,/opt/music
#media_dir=V,/opt/video
#media_dir=V,/opt/shared/iplayer
media_dir=V,/opt/minidlna
media_dir=P,/opt/photos

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=Hunnisett Media

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
log_dir=/var/log/minidlna

# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged
# each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
#log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
#   which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=900

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
#   + "." - use standard container (this is the default)
#   + "B" - "Browse Directory"
#   + "M" - "Music"
#   + "V" - "Video"
#   + "P" - "Pictures"
# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root
#root_container=.

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,986

Re: Minidlna consistently running at very high CPU usage

Are you aware of: Universal Media Server?  I don't have a suggestion for your Minidlna issues but UMS has always worked pretty well perfect for myself.

babyturtle

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Registered: 2015-05-22

Posts: 12

Re: Minidlna consistently running at very high CPU usage

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rygel