[ET9x00] Latest updates causes boxes to slow down

[BadBoy]

Mine is ET9K

 

[paul362]

WHY ? whats the diffrence now with the formatting ???

+ kids will murder me for loosing all the recordings !:nono:

QUICK update converted to EXT4 and all went well thanks guys and girls.:thumbsup:

 

[BadBoy]

QUICK update converted to EXT4 and all went well thanks guys and girls.:thumbsup:

updated mine also

 

[Rimmel]

After the recent updates I can confirm the slowdowns are still there. It seems to be from the usb memory stick I use for epg. These are the recommended (by the sponsor) sandisk cruzer blades. It seems that the box is putting them to sleep somehow. So after watching a film for an hour i go to change channel the box sticks trying to access the epg info on the usb stick. The same happens if you try and access the usb stick from ftp. It takes ages for it to become live.

I have initialised them and also put a swapfile on them.

thanks
CT
et5000s + et9000s

 

[Sicilian]

I would re-flash fresh with the latest release. Then do not restore any backups, just setup fresh.

 

[Larry-G]

After the recent updates I can confirm the slowdowns are still there. It seems to be from the usb memory stick I use for epg. These are the recommended (by the sponsor) sandisk cruzer blades. It seems that the box is putting them to sleep somehow. So after watching a film for an hour i go to change channel the box sticks trying to access the epg info on the usb stick. The same happens if you try and access the usb stick from ftp. It takes ages for it to become live.

I have initialised them and also put a swapfile on them.

thanks
CT
et5000s + et9000s

Both my boxes have a 4gb cruzor blade ( Uno and Duo ) generally i find they work very well, although i have had the odd time where the stick was not recognized but that was my own fault. are you running swap files all the time ? as this is a well known reason for slowing the box down substantially.

 

[Rimmel]

I have just noticed that the mounts for the usb sticks keep disapearing in mount manager - a reboot restores them, but they are definitely disapearing.

Will try the swap file removal thanks.

 

[Rob van der Does]

......So after watching a film for an hour i go to change channel the box sticks trying to access the epg info on the usb stick........

Well, whatever the reason of your problem is, it's not this. EPG data is always in live memory, and only read from file on system boot (and written on system shutdown)

I have initialised them and also put a swapfile on them.

This might give us a clue: using a SWAP-file always slows down any box. So the very first I would do is disable SWAP.
What was the reason in the first place to use one?

 

[Sicilian]

Whats the filesystem on the usb sticks? EXT3 or 4?

 

[Rimmel]

ext4 - I initialised them on the new image.

thanks
CT

 

[Rimmel]

What was the reason in the first place to use one?

The et5000 wouldnt do online updates without one.

Still doing it with the swapfile removed (I have restarted box).

 

[Sicilian]

ext4 - I initialised them on the new image.

thanks
CT

Have you re-flashed then?

 

[Rob van der Does]

This might give us a clue: using a SWAP-file always slows down any box. So the very first I would do is disable SWAP.
What was the reason in the first place to use one?

The et5000 wouldnt do online updates without one.

Well, that shouldn't be a reason nowadays.
First of all, the box creates a temporary SWAP-file during an online upgrade. And secondly an 'unattended upgrade' evades the need for any SWAP at all (as Emigma is stopped, there's much mor memory available.

So there's no need to hamper your box by a SWAP-file.

 

[Foxylady]

Now you mention it, yes I have. It is especially noticeable watching football - occasionally when the ball is passed (not necessarily a very fast pass) there is perceptible juddering/ghosting of the image of the ball...

This is happening on 2 of family's duo'd also.
It is like sharpened edges or slices on moving images.
This is on both as only since the new kernel, was never on prior to this.
As anyone come up with why this is?
It shows up even clearer when using pip mode in the smaller box.

 

[Rimmel]

After more investigation the boxes are definitely losing the USB mounts when they have been in standby mode overnight. I have reflashed one of the boxes but left the other two alone. They all exhibit the same symptoms. Anyone else got disapearing USB mounts. The mounts disapearing is quite obvious as the picons stop appearing.

thanks
CT

 

[spacemonkey]

I'm getting the same issue on both my VU Duo

Version 2.3 build 204
Hard disk: 1GB SATADOM for picons and epg data
Recordings to NFS

This setup has been running since the first release of VIX images
I have noticed than the process /usr/bin/enigma2 is running @ 50%+
all unused services are stopped
The issues happens if i have a swap file or not.
Re-flashed both boxes and configure all settings manually

 

[Sicilian]

I'm getting the same issue on both my VU Duo

Version 2.3 build 204
Hard disk: 1GB SATADOM for picons and epg data
Recordings to NFS

This setup has been running since the first release of VIX images
I have noticed than the process /usr/bin/enigma2 is running @ 50%+
all unused services are stopped
The issues happens if i have a swap file or not.
Re-flashed both boxes and configure all settings manually

What is the filesystem on your USB stick? Try formating whilst connected to the Duo so it uses EXT4.

 

[spacemonkey]

I don't have any usb devices connected, the SATADOM is a Flash Disk Module formatted to EXT 4 which is plugged into the SATA port.

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12113

 

[Stanman]

I don't have any usb devices connected, the SATADOM is a Flash Disk Module formatted to EXT 4 which is plugged into the SATA port.

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12113

Do you have a USB stick to try? It may be down to that particular device.

I have three makes of USB stick play.com branded, san cruzer and Kingston GT and all stay mounted.