Is it expected that kodi uses ~20% CPU while idle on Rpi4?

    Hi all,

    I am trying to avoid burning electricity for nothing, and noticed that my rpi4 is always pretty hot. A look at top shows that kodi uses constantly about 20% CPU.
    ```

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    11313 root 20 0 2779240 304556 77704 S 21.9 7.8 1:25.60 kodi.bin
    11074 root 20 0 4776 3800 1728 R 0.3 0.1 0:01.32 top

    Debug logs are pretty quiet. If anyone feels like having a look, I don't see anything suspicious but I'm not that familiar with kodi internals: https://paste.sr.ht/~nicoco/5b8318…3638e63f518bb40

    Is that expected or is something wrong with my setup? The obvious suspect would be one of my extensions, maybe https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi/ ?


    Thanks for your answer(s)!

    Back when this model was released, ppl were encouraged to have a fan to keep things below the throttle temperature. I’m pretty sure my “idle” processor and memory usage, which can creep up over 50% of my Pi4’s 4GB, can be directly attributed to a bunch of IPTV channels/IPTV Simple. Temperatures used to creep up towards 60C until I bought a massive copper heatsink with contact points for SoC and RAM, and a good thermal paste from AliExpress. Now I might tick over 50C when I stream 4K remuxes over Ethernet…

    Oh! I’ve also disabled wifi on the Pi, which may help. I bet a gentle breeze would drop temps a few degrees more, consistently.

    Quote from nicoco

    Is that expected or is something wrong with my setup? The obvious suspect would be one of my extensions, maybe

    Hi, just a hint: why you don't try to disable one by one your addons, maybe could find if one of them "burn electricity for nothing".