Idling on Wetek Core leads to weird lag

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    This has been a problem since 7.95.1 and it still persisted in 7.95.2 and 7.95.3.

    If you leave the system running idle for a certain period of time (I haven't timed it to see if there is a specific time) the entire system becomes very slow, to the point that navigating the menus takes 10-30 seconds per click. Getting back to the main menu to reboot (the only thing that fixes it) is a painful process.

    I have seen other people mention this in the comments on news posts, but have not found a thread for it in the support forum, so I am adding one.

    What further information can I provide to help track this down and fix it?

    I have this problem as well. A workaround that was been working for me is to use the hotplug frequency governor. Log in the the Core via ssh and issue these commands and reboot:

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    echo "echo hotplug > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" >> /storage/.config/autostart.sh
chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh

    Edited once, last by no1home (February 13, 2017 at 2:37 AM).

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    Quote from no1home


    I have this problem as well. A workaround that was been working for me is to use the hotplug frequency governor. Log in the the Core via ssh and issue these commands and reboot:

    Code
    echo "echo hotplug > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" >> /storage/.config/autostart.sh
chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh


    Interesting. I'll give that a go.

    Thanks for the suggestion, I've set it up to use the hotplug frequency governor. Hopefully that fixes it. I'm hoping the Wetek Core and (1st gen) Play boxes get a kernel update at some point, as the kernel version used on them are way behind the one in the x86 builds.

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    Quote from supernovus


    Thanks for the suggestion, I've set it up to use the hotplug frequency governor. Hopefully that fixes it. I'm hoping the Wetek Core and (1st gen) Play boxes get a kernel update at some point, as the kernel version used on them are way behind the one in the x86 builds.

    It's not possible as there is no mainline kernel support for these devices.