Anybody running SageTV server and Plex server on the same machine?

[MickBurke]

I realized that my SageTV server is an old core2 quad system. So its requirements are a bit less than I recalled. Also I'm running a Plex server on another Core2 Duo. So I'm kinda curious now if I could run both of them on a solid Core i5 system? Anybody got this setup?

Any input, whether informed or theoretical is much appreciated!

Thanks!

[Rob]

I have both SageTV server and Plex server running on an i5. I will caveat it with the max connections we have is 2 sage connections (a client and and HD300) and 2 plex clients.

[Taddeusz]

I have both SageTV & Plex running on a C2Q Q8400 just fine. Not sure the speed of your processor but mine is 2.66Ghz and runs both quite well.

[MickBurke]

Great, thanks for the info guys!!

[jchiso]

I have both programs running on a Quad-Core AMD system that runs Desktop Ubuntu Linux, but I don't access the Plex server remotely. As such, processor speed (for transcoding) is not an issue for my setup, so the Sage and Plex interfaces both perform smoothly ...

[stuckless]

My unraid server is a AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core @ 4000 cpu (which is fairly old now) with 24 gigs of memory.. I'm running plex, sagetv, and a few other docker containers on it, and so far it's pretty smooth.

[valnar]

I have Sage and Plex on the same server, as well as a few other things. It's a pretty beefy box, but I imagine anything could be bogged down if you are trying to do something while Plex is transcoding for a remote client. Fortunately that doesn't happen often.

Storage for all media is local to that box on several HDD's, so I/O is generally not an issue.

[tvmaster2]

running both on a quad Athlon, W7 32 bit with 4gb ram. seems to work, although I rarely hit it with more than one or two simultaneous streaming requests

[weeber]

I'm running Sage Server (v9) and Plex on a box with an AMD Athlon X4 845 and 8GB RAM, and a relatively cheap $50 Asrock motherboard. Running both together has not been an issue.

I just built this server, and I debated going with an i5, but was a little rich for my blood. Figured I have some fun and try the Athlon. It works great, but I rarely stream remotely, and when I do it's one stream @ 720p.

[wayner]

I also have both on the system and I don't notice that it causes much strain, but Plex isn't used that often. What really causes strain is using more than 3 extenders at the same time due to the 32 bit JVM limitations.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by wayner

I also have both on the system and I don't notice that it causes much strain, but Plex isn't used that often. What really causes strain is using more than 3 extenders at the same time due to the 32 bit JVM limitations.

I've found UnRAID+SageTV,Plex,LMS Dockers to be an awesome setup, and it's 64-bit, so I've got a 2GB heap now. Excellent!

[MickBurke]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I've found UnRAID+SageTV,Plex,LMS Dockers to be an awesome setup, and it's 64-bit, so I've got a 2GB heap now. Excellent!

OK, the only part of that I understood was "SageTV,Plex". Any chance I can get you to offer a little more explanation on the Unraid LMS etc???

Much NoobThanks!!!

[Taddeusz]

Even though I've not yet gotten the full unRAID experience since all our recordings and other media are still on a Windows machine. I'm waiting on the delivery of a parity drive to let me start moving stuff over. Even still, it's been a better experience. I'm sure some of that is owed to the hardware it's running on though. Still, it allows a level of integration I could never have with just a single Windows system.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by MickBurke

OK, the only part of that I understood was "SageTV,Plex". Any chance I can get you to offer a little more explanation on the Unraid LMS etc???

Much NoobThanks!!!

unRAID - a headless server operating system designed primarily around networked storage - but having extra virtualization and plugin capabilities to do just about anything else
SageTV Docker - a packaged sagetv server that can be plugged into unRAID
Plex Docker - a packaged plex media server that can be plugged into unRAID
LMS Docker - a packaged logitech media server that can be plugged into unRAID

I also have a few other general purpose virtual machines running on the unRAID server:
- A windows machine that runs Hero Lab to use remotely.
- A windows machine that runs openDCT (simply because I haven't made a docker for it yet, and it was the quickest to set up for now).
- A linux machine used for development tasks

[MickBurke]

Fascinating! Thanks!