Possibly related to this: Hard hang post-mortem? - #8 by AndersG but I have not gotten around to editing the config files to remove the on-screen display
Anyway. This has happened a few times: You watch a recorded film from TVHeadend. After say 50 minutes it freezes. The Pi is not hung, you can exit with X and after a while the GUI comes back. You can naviigate, but it i e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y slow. Say a minute between keypresses. Saw nothing odd in top, but had to reboot as family wanted to watch the last bit of the film
Only other thing I noticed was that the SD disk led was flashing frantically.
Did a sudo reboot and watched the rest of the film
It sounds like a memory leak. When memory gets very low it gets very slow. Leaving it longer would probably cause kodi to be killed and restarted.
The leak was found with a recording from tvheadend. Apparently the latest tvheadend server doesn’t cause the issue (it related to storing unused streams in the file).
There is a fix for this, but it’s not in current stable build (hopefully will be in next update).
The fix should be in the testing builds:
but be aware these are bleeding edge, so could have other issues. May be interesting to learn if that build fixes the issue.
Thanks. I run TVH 4.0.7 sounds plausible what you say. Given all the hoops I had to go through with TVH, especially with oscam and XMLTV I’d rather wait for the fix in Kodi. Right now, TVH 4.0.7 has been rock-solid. Running on an OpenSUSE box with three tuners. Two DVB-T and one DVB-C.
Any ideas when the new Kodi will make mainstream?
And yes. I know I should provide logs, but I outlined the reasons for not doing so.
I will definitely check free memory if and when the issue shows up again.
