For me it helped (a little but noticeably) but the characteristics of the system is probably different.
What is size of Kodi after compilation ? It is linked statically or dynamically in Openelec ?
I think that the binary file is large and its start-up starts swapping.
Kswapd should put to swap file (if it exists) some data and after a while swapping is expected to end. But it's not.
Hi, Jernej as we have already written, it is well known bug with kswapd.
Those settings don't seem to make any difference here either.
But...I have read a couple of reports that the kswapd issue seems to be caused by or related to EXT4 filesystems (the /storage partition is EXT4)
So to test I converted the /storage partition to EXT3 and preliminary tests indeed show good results: for the first minute or so kswapd is still at 100%, but it soon settles to 0% and stays that way.
jacer replied at 2015-12-24 16:03
For fixing green stripes and green bar issue, please check this link below.
https://github.com/linux ...
Green stripes are generally solved. It is different kind of a problem as that at libvdpau. Because this is my first of a kind project, I didn't crop image, because I didn't know. However, I still have a problem with MPEG2 videos. Reported image sizes and offsets are a bit strange, to say the least.
I'm glad that some of you are working on kswapd issue. I will implement solution or workaround when there will be consensus .
Can anyone please test it? Just go to projects/H3/patches/kodi folder and delete following patches:
kodi-000-windowing-support.patch
kodi-003-cedarx.patch
After that, put the new one there.
Few notes:
- VP9 seems to be SW decoded (all cores go to 100%)
- some MPEG2 videos report wrong height and others have problems at rendering (maybe problems with interlacing?)
- there should be no green stripes or any additional borders
- FPS reported by debug info are those from GPU. Because this bypass GPU, reported values are not correct for video.
- no deinterlacing whatsoever, HW deinterlacing is on next todo list
- CPU consumption for kodi should always be minimal during video playback, except for VP9
it may be for now, but for that reason I didn't put it on github yet. Care to explain where did you get green stripes or strange colors (video samples, codec details, etc)? I have colection of bad videos and it works for most of them except MPEG2 is a bit strange. VP9 should work better, because CPU load is lowered.