[PROBLEM] My setup is very slow. SD card in cause?

[KingHeight]

Hi all,

I have installed Xbian 1.0 Beta 1.1 on a 8 Gb Kingston class 10 SD card.
However, things are painfully slow: a menu takes about 10 seconds or more to open in XBMC, "sudo apt-get install curl" has been running for 3 minutes and still isn't done...

I am suspecting this has to do with my SD Card but I read many times over that a 2 Gb class 4 is enough... So my 8 Gb class 10 should be more than enough, right?

What am I missing? Any SD card you would recommend without breaking the bank? I paid 10$ for that one and I'd like to keep it around that price even if it means going down to 4 Gb (I'm in Canada).

Thanks!

[IriDium]

I doubt it is the SD card. More than likely, Xbian is doing things in the background - especially if it's a new install.

Did you do a sudo apt-get update before the install?

If it still persists, can you include the output from dmesg, xbmc.log and vmstat 5 10.

[KingHeight]

Thank you for your reply. It's been installed about a week now and I am getting the problem ever since.
I didn't do a sudo apt-get update before install as I didn't have my pi before. This is the first install from the standard image.

dmesg output: http://sprunge.us/VFDg
vmstat 5 10: http://sprunge.us/SQhT
xbmc.log: http://sprunge.us/eMEX

[IriDium]

(27th Sep, 2013 01:52 AM)KingHeight Wrote:  Thank you for your reply. It's been installed about a week now and I am getting the problem ever since.
I didn't do a sudo apt-get update before install as I didn't have my pi before. This is the first install from the standard image.

dmesg output: http://sprunge.us/VFDg
vmstat 5 10: http://sprunge.us/SQhT
xbmc.log: http://sprunge.us/eMEX

Well it's certainly running slow - 100% CPU usage.

Have installed something for Bluetooth? as this could be the root cause.

[KingHeight]

I don't think I did, I don't have anything bluetooth hooked up to my pi. How should I go about fixing this?
When I run top i see xbmc.bin is using almost 100% CPU

[IriDium]

Well it's certainly in the dmesg output.

I'd try a fresh install, and test it before adding or installing anything else.

[mk01]

(27th Sep, 2013 02:21 AM)KingHeight Wrote:  I don't think I did, I don't have anything bluetooth hooked up to my pi. How should I go about fixing this?
When I run top i see xbmc.bin is using almost 100% CPU

how is the mouse and keyboard attached ? what about the xbmc addons like trakt, artwork downloader and library auto update service ?

library auto update in trigger mode was killer even for desktop XBMC variants.