Delay in Movie Processing (Fixed) and Optimization

Hey everyone,

Recently I discovered that some critical settings in CouchPotato had been reset for some reason. These settings included the location of stored media and the details to access the various indexers to search for media.

As a result, movies submitted lets say via requests would not find any results as it did not have the information to search for them in the first place. Then it didn’t know where to put it, finally it wasn’t renaming/moving them.

This has all been fixed and everything is now catching up with requests and pending acquisitions.

Secondly, as part of my weekly maintenance I have fine tuned some settings relating to how requests index what we already have and if it’s been located and downloaded already so it can decide if it will accept the request, or if it’s a duplicate for example it will reject it.

I believe what was causing requests to crash so often previously was the fact that every 24 hours or less for some cases, requests would query Sonarr, CouchPotato and Plex databases and compare them to the last result then update as necessary.

Because of the sheer size of the databases and the amount of data to look through and cross reference I believe each time one of these processes ran it not only hogged resources and slowed down other tasks also being conducted by requests and eventually building a backlog of scheduled tasks and slowly becoming unresponsive.

With the changes of course there is a chance something may not work the same way however I believe these changes will drastically improve stability and will be closely monitoring things.

Please report any issues.

Kind regards,

LightSpeedTaco