2017-08-04, 05:15
(2017-08-04, 01:04)FreeMan xbmc Wrote: It took a bit to find it, but I'm very happy to see this thread is still alive and well!
I bought my Asus Chromebox-M004U in late 2014, installed v3.5 or 3.6 from the OP and haven't messed with it since except for updating versions of Kodi. I did install XBMCbuntu at the time, and I've had to do a few rounds of `apt-get update ...` and `apt-get upgrade...` to keep both Ubuntu and Kodi up to date.
I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and Kodi 17.3. Around the time that I upgraded to Kodi 17, I noticed that many times when I'm navigating my video files (I have TV shows & Movies in libraries, but watch a lot of sports that are just sorted into directory structures & not managed by the library), I can get through the directory structure quickly, however, when I go to open the lowest level directory that actually contains files to watch, it can take quite a bit of time for Kodi to respond with the directory listing. Like 15-30 seconds long time. It's accessing all of its media from my server (unRAID) across the network, but the slowdown was distinctly in relation to the upgrade to 17, and there weren't server changes at that time.
Kodibuntu hasn't been supported by Team Kodi in years, and the LTS kernel used by Ubuntu 14.04 is certainly lacking compared to more up-to-date ones. If you don't have a compelling reason to use a "full" Linux distro, you might be better off backing up your Kodi userdata and starting fresh with LibreELEC (after updating your box to the latest UEFI firmware).
That said, your issue sounds like it's SAMBA related, which could be something at the OS level, or it could be a Kodi issue. Have you tried browsing the SMB shares outside of Kodi to see if the Ubuntu file manager shows the same sluggishness? I'm using 17.3 myself and have all my media on a NAS, and have no issues browsing the directories, but I'm running LE 8.0.2.
Quote:SSDs are reasonably cheap these days, would putting a larger drive in likely resolve this issue? Since it's been...removes socks... nearly 3 years since I had the box open, I don't remember exactly what kind of drive it's got in it. Is it a "standard" SSD (what's the max thickness I could install), or is it one of the m.2 type or something else?
Thanks for making it so very easy to have so many trouble free years of Kodi usage on a super cheap, totally silent box!
http://kodi.wiki/view/Chromebox#Recommen...e_Upgrades
of course, if you switch to LE, 16GB is more than enough
