Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Electron CPU usage
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@Mykle1
My last ditch effort is to try a new SD card. The card it came with is a SanDisk 32gb card and it’s just a plain black card and I have this otherone which is a SanDisk ultra 32gb card so maybe that does something. -
I am certainly rooting for you! I think there was/is a walk-through on preparing the SD card, formatting and such, although I don’t remember where. It’s been a long time.
The best of luck to you. Please keep me posted
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@Mykle1
Just to rule out one more variable: the pi 3 should be fine running at 1080p yes? -
@wtidwell said in Electron CPU usage:
Just to rule out one more variable: the pi 3 should be fine running at 1080p yes?
Here is my res on an old HP monitor. That’s using the DVI interface. It does not have HDMI.
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@wtidwell Yeah I don’t use those plain black sd cards I buy the more expensive ones because of the issues.
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@wtidwell said in Electron CPU usage:
I have this otherone which is a SanDisk ultra 32gb card so maybe that does something.
I looked to see what SD card is in my Pi but all I could come up with is the wrapper it came in. I bought one of those CanaKit’s with everything included. I don’t want to take my mirror down if I don’t have to, sorry.
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I’m beginning to think it’s the SD card. I did a clean install of Raspian on the SanDisk ultra which is the same class (u1) as the other card which was plain black and it seemed like it was a twinge better but not fantastic. Thanks for your input cowboysdude.
I ordered a SanDisk extreme u3 which will get here tomorrow and try that and report back in. Don’t take your mirror down haha
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@wtidwell said in Electron CPU usage:
I’m beginning to think it’s the SD card.
I hope that’s it. Then we can all laugh about it. Keep me posted.
Just in case:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/And:
HOW TO FORMAT AN SD CARD AS FAT Note: If you're formatting an SD (or micro SD) card that has a capacity over 32GB (i.e. 64GB and above), then see the separate SDXC formatting instructions. WINDOWS For Windows users we recommend formatting your SD card using the SD Association's Formatting Tool, which can be downloaded from sdcard.org. You will need to set "FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT" option to "ON" in the "Options" menu to ensure that the entire SD card volume is formatted, and not just a single partition. The updated size will be shown after the format is complete. MAC OS The SD Association's Formatting Tool is also available for Mac users, although the default OS X Disk Utility is also capable of formatting the entire disk. To do this, select the SD card volume and choose Erase with MS-DOS format. LINUX For Linux users we recommend gparted (or the command line version parted). Norman Dunbar has written up instructions for Linux users. -
Ok, this is the kit I bought back in January. I checked my amazon.com history.
“You purchased this item on January 16, 2017”
https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Complete-Starter-Kit/dp/B01C6Q2GSY/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1503626951&sr=1-1&keywords=32+GB+Micro+SD+Card+(Class+10)+pre-loaded+with+NOOBSSo this is the SD card I have in my Pi3-B mirror. Recommended Micro SD Card pre-loaded with NOOBS
That is also where I installed my Raspbian Jessie from. You can install it from NOOBS
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Well I just installed everything on a brand new SanDisk extreme u3 MicroSD. And it’s still using all my dang cpu and the transitions are still so laggy.
I think I’ve tried everything at this point.
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@Mykle1
Is there anything to do after using the install script? Am I missing some next step? -
@wtidwell said in Electron CPU usage:
Is there anything to do after using the install script? Am I missing some next step?
You could try this, but I don’t think it’s anything you’re doing or not doing. MM is running, it’s just not running well. I left you another suggestion in the other topic you posted in.
Updating your MagicMirror²
If you want to update your MagicMirror² to the latest version, use your terminal to go to your Magic Mirror folder and type the following command:
git pull && npm install
If you changed nothing more than the config or the modules, this should work without any problems. Type git status to see your changes, if there are any, you can reset them with git reset --hard. After that, git pull should be possible. -
I am having the exact same problem. It is so frustrating.
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@TiemenMoesker
I’m really sorry =/ I don’t have any better information for you, maybe you can fix yours. Mine is still busted… -
In details: My mm time is running fine until an animation happens, the time freezes and the choppy animation accurs. When the animation is done the time starts again and it speeds up to the point it should be. Also I noticed that every time the animation happens the CPU jumps to 90+% usage. The pi itself also goes extremely hot.
I bought my raspberry from coolblue.nl 4 days ago.
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Have you guys tried allocating more memory to the GPU? I think the default is like 64MB or something. I bumped mine to 128MB a while ago.
One other dumb suggestion: Did you remove the nonessential stuff from your Raspian installs? The Minecraft, Wolfram Alpha, etc. as per the complete setup tutorial?
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Actually the only thing I did was. Run the auto install command of magic mirror 2 and pm2. That’s it.
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@bhepler
I’ve done that, both ways giving the gpu more ram and less ram and that doesn’t seem to solve it for me.I did remove all the excess on other installs I did but there’s no other processes running anyway to take away cpu time.
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@TiemenMoesker Okay, not a problem. This may not free up resources, but it will remove some of the unused programs from the default Raspian image. This is more important with smaller SD cards where space is at a premium.
sudo apt-get remove --purge idle3 java-common libreoffice* minecraft-pi scratch nuscratch penguinspuzzle python-minecraftpi python3-minecraftpi smartsim sonic-pi wolfram-engineThe second option is to increase the amount of memory that is dedicated to the graphics chip on the pi. If you enter
sudo raspi-configfrom the command line, you’ll get a basic configuration window. If you’re actually on the pi, you can go to the main menu ->sudo Preferences and one of the tabs in the pi configuration is the GPU memory allocation. The default is 64MB IIRC. You can bump that up to 128 or 256 and see if it helps with your animation issue.Note: It seems like these suggestions don’t help anyway. Nuts.
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