[Milhouse]

Running the script remotely can reduce the load (and memory consumption) on the Kodi client, the amount of reduced load depends entirely on what you are doing - for instance running "imdb" remotely will result in a big reduction on the client as the remote machine will be doing most of the work (looking up imdb etc.) but caching won't see a large reduction as the client still needs to do most of the work (ie. caching).

As for your Odroid issue, it sounds like a distribution issue (ie. unstable OS) that you should report to wherever you got your OS. Perhaps you need to configure the network stack in some way to avoid what I'm guessing is some sort of kernel panic triggered by the script.