[HeresJohnny]

When using the skin Estuary Mod v2 in conjuntion with a MySQL database, I notice a fundamental bug with Skin Helper Service. After a little while the service starts a series of queries which keep repeating endlessly. This leads to enormous congestion of the local network, especially if the client is connected via Wifi. The traffic generated will use between 5 MB/s and 8 MB/s, leading to stuttering of HD video and music streaming.

I have taken great pains to deactivate all my add-ons one by one and it always came down to Skin Helper Service being the culprit. What triggers these queries I don't know, or if this only happens with Estuary Mod v2, but they look like this:

https://paste.kodi.tv/zevaxofoxi

Once these queries start, they will never stop until I terminate Kodi - which most often is not possible because of these background activities. I'm sure many users of the skin mentioned will be stumped how to get rid of stuttering, as the described behaviour is only visible in Task Manager / Resource Monitor on Windows (possibly iperf on Linux, as it also happens on LibreElec / CoreElec etc, I'm sure, when that skin is used).