2018-02-25, 10:32
Hello!
I am using Kodi for years now, first on Atom/ION setup, and now on AMD Athlon 5350/Kabini, always on Ubuntu (10 through 16). I have to say, I did not had seroius problems so far. Everything worked. However...
About two weeks ago I updated Ubuntu on my HTPC, and the problems begun. At first I noticed that the /home disk will get filled by Unity7.log. That was associated with some other bugs, but I do not have that software on my box or the situation does not apply (https://askubuntu.com/questions/672856/u...disk-space https://askubuntu.com/questions/795438/l...04-lts-fix and so on). So I moved the Unity7.log to another disk, slower and far larger. Kodi was filling it as fast as the CPU and disk could store data. Then I tried to reset Kodi settings, deleted .kodi dir, removed some add-ons, but the stopping during playback and occasional crashing persisted.
Kodi stops during playback, CPU load goes over 200%, Kodi eats over 3GB of ram, system starts to swap and everything slows down. This happens occasionally, sometimes the video file will get to end, sometimes not. I noticed that one documentary really triggered it, so I made a log file on one occasion: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/QxnBzf8N3V/ At least on one occasion, Kodi reached the end of that file, without stopping or crashing. Of course, the problem happens intermittently on virtually every video file that gets played: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/sfbgmFfpjg/
The installation is as follows: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.13.0-36-generic, CPU: AMD Athlon™ 5350 APU with Radeon™ R3, 4GB RAM, FFmpeg version/source: ffmpeg-3.1-kodi, Kodi version is 17.6 Git:20171114-a9a7a20, installed from PPA (stable).
My last attempt was to downgrade from 4.13.0-36 to 4.13.0-32. Let's see what will happen now...
Any suggestions?
Could https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=323412 help?
I am using Kodi for years now, first on Atom/ION setup, and now on AMD Athlon 5350/Kabini, always on Ubuntu (10 through 16). I have to say, I did not had seroius problems so far. Everything worked. However...
About two weeks ago I updated Ubuntu on my HTPC, and the problems begun. At first I noticed that the /home disk will get filled by Unity7.log. That was associated with some other bugs, but I do not have that software on my box or the situation does not apply (https://askubuntu.com/questions/672856/u...disk-space https://askubuntu.com/questions/795438/l...04-lts-fix and so on). So I moved the Unity7.log to another disk, slower and far larger. Kodi was filling it as fast as the CPU and disk could store data. Then I tried to reset Kodi settings, deleted .kodi dir, removed some add-ons, but the stopping during playback and occasional crashing persisted.
Kodi stops during playback, CPU load goes over 200%, Kodi eats over 3GB of ram, system starts to swap and everything slows down. This happens occasionally, sometimes the video file will get to end, sometimes not. I noticed that one documentary really triggered it, so I made a log file on one occasion: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/QxnBzf8N3V/ At least on one occasion, Kodi reached the end of that file, without stopping or crashing. Of course, the problem happens intermittently on virtually every video file that gets played: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/sfbgmFfpjg/
The installation is as follows: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.13.0-36-generic, CPU: AMD Athlon™ 5350 APU with Radeon™ R3, 4GB RAM, FFmpeg version/source: ffmpeg-3.1-kodi, Kodi version is 17.6 Git:20171114-a9a7a20, installed from PPA (stable).
My last attempt was to downgrade from 4.13.0-36 to 4.13.0-32. Let's see what will happen now...
Any suggestions?
Could https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=323412 help?
