Raspberry Pi Zero CPU maxing out all the time

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1

I have been having issues with the CPU maxing out all the time. It was causing all kinds of errors, freezing and the like.

I found this wee nugget from the Kodi forums. I hope it helps someone who may be having similar issues;

cd ~/.kodi/userdata
vi advancedsettings.xml or nano advancedsettings.xml

Copy the following;

<advancedsettings>
  <gui>    
    <algorithmdirtyregions>1</algorithmdirtyregions>
    <nofliptimeout>0</nofliptimeout>
  </gui>
</advancedsettings>

Save & exit
Reboot

2

We already have dirty regions enabled by default in OSMC.
nofliptimeout = 0 is already the default in Kodi. It will be removed in the next version of Kodi.

3

Well it has taken my CPU from 100% to about 25%. Do you know what may have caused this?

Thank you for the help

4

Are you sure? Does removing this reduce the spike?

I suspect your device was just doing something else, perhaps updating add-ons at the time. I’m sure if you remove the changes you made, the CPU will remain low.

5

It seems OK after removing and rebooting, but I’ll keep an eye on it as it’s been up at 100% for days, even after every reboot. If it persists without the advancedsettings.xml file I’ll let you know

Cheers