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Microzed 7010 Sluggish response

100bobdxcool
100bobdxcool over 9 years ago

I have ubuntu based OS (xillinux) installed on my zynq 7010 based microzed board (commercial version) and having certain scripts running on them outdoors. I have 10 such systems outdoors. But only on two particular systems, whenever I login to these system, the response from the terminal is very sluggish and CPU itself seems to be running slow. After I reboot the system, then it would start running normally, and then again after a few hours, shows up the same behavior. What could be the possible reasons for this ?

Some process is utilizing maximum CPU resources ?
Or the 8GB SD card quality isnt good (Currently using the SD card that came with the microzed kit) ? What SD card is recommended to be used if so ?

What else could be the issue ? Temperature (Currently the microzed sits on my custom designed PCB which is usually at a temperature of 30-35 C based on the temperature sensor I have on board)  ?

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    0 zedhed over 9 years ago

    Hi bobdxcool,

    I think you are probably on the right track with the SD card.  If you are running Ubuntu and have a page file being used then a slow memory leak can really bog down your system over time.

    Take a look at this other thread where others suggest that using swap on an SD card is not a good idea:

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/488033/is-having-swap-on-hard-drive-or-sd-card-better

    As for the type of recommended SD card to use, I would suggest sticking with either the SanDisk, Delkin, or Kingston cards.  I don't say that just because we sell those cards here at Avnet, but because they are the primary cards that I use at my desk and I have yet to have problems with any of them on MicroZed.  I think you can also find SD cards out there (usually more expensive) which are rated for additional read write cycles than your everyday commercial SD cards, so that may also be an option.

    Regards,

    -Kevin

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    0 100bobdxcool over 9 years ago in reply to zedhed

    Currently a swap partition doesn't exist on my SD card. Also, since my system runs 24x7, is it recommended to use an SD card with more number of read/write cycles ? If so, which model SD card would you recommend ?

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    0 100bobdxcool over 9 years ago in reply to zedhed

    Currently a swap partition doesn't exist on my SD card. Also, since my system runs 24x7, is it recommended to use an SD card with more number of read/write cycles ? If so, which model SD card would you recommend ?

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