Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MM very slow to change
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Hi everyone!
I have installed the MagicMirror and I have noticed that when I type pm2 start mm it takes like 2 to 5 minutes to start the MM.
I have version 2.31.0 and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
For the rest I am not familiar with programming, so very grateful for your assistance AND patience!
Thanks in advance for any ideas how to solve this.
Cheers!
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@Canguingo how did you install MagicMirror?
can you open a terminal window and do
free -mso we can see memory usage. the latest raspberry pi os, bookworm , will need about 2.5g w MagicMirror running
the hardware is only 1 g as i recall
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@sdetweil Hi Sam, thanks!!
This is what i got:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 906 592 65 38 345 314
Swap: 511 278 233I believe it should be enough. I only use calendar, weather and a small solar PV module. Could it be that Electron takes too much memory?
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@Canguingo what os version (seems too small)
do
uname -a
lsb_release -a -
This is what I got:
Linux raspberrypi 6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.25-1+rpt1 (2025-04-30) aarch64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookwormIt could be the SD-card? (I believe it is 5 years old…)
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@Canguingo you are actively swapping, 250-ish meg, all that goes on the sd card.
surprised the memory use is as small as it is…
mine is about 1.5gig on swap file…
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@sdetweil ok thanks. So is there anything I could do?
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@Canguingo on one of my slow systems i used a usb ssd stick
as the pi3 doesn’t support boot from usb, i found a way to boot from sd card, but run from the ssd stick.
ill have to find that again, been years
you could try s newer faster sd card, but they were designed for seldom write, frequent read
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Ok thanks. i think i will sruvive with these 2 to 4 minutes, maybe somewhere in the future I’ll change the sd-card.
Do you think I will need to re-install everything again if changing the sd? I guess so…
Since it took me like 2 days to install this, i’ll wait and live with it…thanks anyway!
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@Canguingo if you have a usb adapter for an sd card, linux provides a command to copy disk to disk, dd
if you use the scripted installer it shouldn’t take more than an hour
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scriptsuse my backup/restore scripts to save the MagicMirror config and modules list . good for moving to new sd card, machine
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@sdetweil many thanks!! I will have a look at this and see how to do it and fix the issue! very grateful!
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