I think you are right - my expectations are slightly off as it is running the MySQL server, i’ve had a poke around the Confluence skin and even that is regularly updating the “recently played/added” widgets from MySQL.
Although I completely disabled the plugin “Skin Widgets” last night and it looks as though there were no wakeup requests throughout the night at all. I’m guessing as a result of that my “recently played/added” will not be updating and will become very outdated, which is a bit annoying.