Library Import Scan Taking Longer Than Usual

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Recently (within the last week or so) I noticed that my Sage server seems to be constantly in library import scan mode. After finally getting the chance to take a look at the log tonight, it appears than scans are taking anywhere from 50 minutes to 1 hour or more. In the past they only seemed to last a few minutes. In my log, I notice a bunch of lines that look like this:

Fri 4/8 7:24:17.560 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Successfully loaded YUV image of RawImage[1536x2048 alpha=false stride=3072 bufferCapacity=6291456]
Fri 4/8 7:24:17.560 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] About to start loading the YUV image into the video plane...
Fri 4/8 7:24:18.260 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Done loading the YUV image into the video plane (4776744)...
Fri 4/8 7:24:18.261 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Done Preloading image in picture viewer's slideshow monitor thread.
Fri 4/8 7:24:20.000 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Preloading image in picture viewer's slideshow monitor thread: MediaFile[id=4420301 A[4420304,4420302,"2011/2011_03_26/IMG_6935",0@0326.14:15,0] mask=P host=sagetv encodedBy= format=JPEG 0:00:00 0 kbps [] \\paul\My Documents\My Pictures\2011\2011_03_26\IMG_6935.JPG, Seg0[Sat 3/26 14:15:21.999-Sat 3/26 14:15:22.000]]
Fri 4/8 7:24:20.001 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Loading JPEG to VIDEO surface for MetaImage[MediaFile[id=4420301 A[4420304,4420302,"2011/2011_03_26/IMG_6935",0@0326.14:15,0] mask=P host=sagetv encodedBy= format=JPEG 0:00:00 0 kbps [] \\paul\My Documents\My Pictures\2011\2011_03_26\IMG_6935.JPG, Seg0[Sat 3/26 14:15:21.999-Sat 3/26 14:15:22.000]]#0 3264x2448 javaImage=false javaMem=0 jref=0#1 2048x1536 javaImage=false javaMem=0 jref=0]
Fri 4/8 7:24:20.001 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Allocating a high-res surface of size 2048x1536
Fri 4/8 7:24:20.009 [Fork-BASE-53879@4c6807] Loading 2048x1536 image from file \\paul\My Documents\My Pictures\2011\2011_03_26\IMG_6935.JPG

What does this mean? Does this seem normal because I don't ever remember scans taking this long. Surely this isn't good for server performance. In the interim, I guess I will just dial my scan frequency back. I appreciate any help you can give.

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Okay, after a little more investigation it became obvious to me that the lines I posted above have nothing to do with the library import, but rather they pertain to photos being loaded into the screen saver on my client and extender. So I determined that the lines I needed to look for have [LibraryImporter@xxxxxxx] in them. Here is what I discovered when looking at my last library scan.

• Movies directory (~80 items) took about 6 seconds to scan
• Music directory (10,000 + songs) took 33 minutes to scan
• Picutres directory (8 years worth of photos and home videos) took 44 minutes
• Recording directories took seconds to scan

So I know I have a lot of music and pictures, but I don't ever remember these taking so long to scan. Doesn't SageTV just skim the directories to see if there are new files and carry on if there aren't? I could understand it taking this long on an initial scan, but it seems excessive for an 'update' scan. Anyone have any ideas?

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Well, the library scan problem seems to have fixed itself. The last 3 scans have taken 9 minutes or less. I am not sure what changed to fix the issue or what caused it in the first place, but I wanted to follow up anyway.