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My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - KingHeight - 27th Sep, 2013 01:04 AM
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!
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - IriDium - 27th Sep, 2013 01:31 AM
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.
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - KingHeight - 27th Sep, 2013 01:52 AM
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
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - IriDium - 27th Sep, 2013 02:17 AM
(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.
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - KingHeight - 27th Sep, 2013 02:21 AM
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
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - IriDium - 27th Sep, 2013 02:37 AM
Well it's certainly in the dmesg output.
I'd try a fresh install, and test it before adding or installing anything else.
RE: My setup is very slow. SD card in cause? - mk01 - 30th Sep, 2013 09:40 AM
(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.