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I started seeing this with UMS 3.1.x

When launching or restarting UMS, it happily sits idle in the background until I start a DLNA receiver (I use both PS3 and VLC). At that time UMS begins scanning every file in my shared folders. What the problem is, is it spends an extremely long time scanning MPG files. MKV files do not seem to be a problem. This scan will dig-in to the point that the renderer will time-out because it cannot display the folder contents. Because I have close to 3TB of media, this activity could take an hour or more.

I just tested UMS v3.0.0-a3 and the scan ran fairly quickly. Then tried again with v3.3.0 and it took forever. Tested with UMS cache both enabled and disabled.

Windows 7 x64
Java x64 1.7.0_45-b18

--Joe

I find that if i have a lot of media in one folder it does take a while for the media to show on the renderer in its list.

what i have done is built sub folders to be like "A-C" for all movies that begin with A, B and C... etc.. It helps.

This is very annoying, I've enabled Caching, changed start javaw -Xmx to "1768M" and every time the app is started, all shared folders are re-scanned.
And there's no option in the GUI to stop that.
Sometimes the app simply hangs, using all CPU power and i have to forcibly "taskkill /im javaw.exe" and restart it.
So I've decided to change Log Level to Trace and once it will hang again i'll put a log to Pastebin so that hopefully the authors can solve the issue.

TV: LG 42LM660S, Win 8.1 x64
Core i7 4770, 32 Gb RAM

Two days and no hanging yet but it turned out that the debug.log file size is 1 Gb

If you would use any other media server you would have to scan folders to get anything to view. UMS scans as you go along. Don't put 2000 files in one folder that will for sure take ages to process. Or do a scan in the background over night.