Idling on Wetek Core leads to weird lag

supernovus · February 11, 2017 at 11:25 PM

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?

**lrusak** · February 12, 2017 at 3:49 AM Official Post

I've experienced this as well. I haven't found a solution yet though.

no1home · February 13, 2017 at 2:36 AM

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

**lrusak** · February 13, 2017 at 4:00 AM Official Post

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.

supernovus · February 17, 2017 at 3:41 AM

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.

**lrusak** · February 17, 2017 at 5:18 AM Official Post

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.

Idling on Wetek Core leads to weird lag

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