Freeze with yellow activity light permanently on

Hello guys,

It took nine days for it to occur again in my presence… this is after addressing the advancedsettings and the 100Mbits issues from before. I’ve observed that the Raspberry Pi has rebooted by itself on a number of occasions since then but I haven’t caught it myself.

Tonight, I observed that the light was permanently on at 9:07pm… the time was stuck at 9:06pm… while the light was solid, I decided to just wait… there was no other activity except that the time updated at 9:15pm, then 9:28pm, then 9:36pm… Finally at 10:02pm the OSMC sad face appeared.

Once rebooted, I uploaded the logs: https://paste.osmc.tv/jizefuyipo

I tried to interpret them myself… and searched the forums again…

This article seemed to indicate that it was a memory issue… 'cos I can see the same return code and I see this in the logs “Out of memory: Kill process 570 (kodi.bin) score 867 or sacrifice child”.

Interestingly, they were asked but didn’t know the answer to this:

I knew my cache settings were modified as follows:
< buffermode>1< /buffermode>
< memorysize>104857600< /memorysize>
< readfactor>1.5< /readfactor>

So I went searching for what they should be…

So for the moment, I’ve decided to try changing those settings.
< buffermode>1< /buffermode>
< memorysize>83886080< /memorysize>
< readfactor>16< /readfactor>

I don’t understand how this cache setting can cause the Raspberry Pi to run out of memory if it isn’t playing anything and just sitting idle… so I’m grasping at straws really.

I’m open to other suggestions.