Has anyone else experienced the following issue running Venus OS 3.6x and newer?
I had a VenusGX in my system that I upgraded from 3.5x to 3.6x and it started to reload every 12 to 24 hours due to watchdog issues. I thought it was just my system putting too much strain on it and upgraded to a Cerbo.
Once done the reloads stopped but I noticed that Free Memory on a constant decline. At some point I think it will either run out and reboot OR it’s like Windows that takes memory for caching and releases it when needed. Below I have some stats of the Cerbo.
The first little hiccup (under the popup) is where I disabled Modbus and the second one is where I stopped my pvoutput.org script. It made no significant difference to the trend.
Below is a capture of free memory over time:
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 445288 383544 10104 200160 545236
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 444200 384636 10096 200156 546332
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 444616 384216 10096 200160 545912
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 444600 384232 10096 200160 545932
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# !Modbus Disabled Sunday, 3 Aug 21:00.
-sh: !Modbus: event not found
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 444460 384372 10096 200160 546072
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 443880 384928 10112 200184 546636
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 480840 347816 10112 200336 509676
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# !Stopped PVOutput script.
-sh: !Stopped: event not found
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 469508 359132 10116 200352 521004
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 469104 359556 10116 200332 521408
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1028992 483588 345056 10116 200348 506924
Swap: 0 0 0
root@einstein:~#
Next I have a ps output showing venus-platform growing over time.
root@einstein:~# ps | sort -k3 -n -r | head
816 root 57672 S /opt/victronenergy/venus-platform/venus-platform
909 root 56144 S {dbus-modbus-cli} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-modbus-client/dbus-modbus-client.py
1729 root 52244 S {mqtt-rpc.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/mqtt-rpc/mqtt-rpc.py
1730 root 48268 S /usr/bin/flashmq
811 root 44236 S {vrmlogger.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/vrmlogger/vrmlogger.py
833 root 41600 S {venus-button-ha} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/venus-button-handler/venus-button-handler -D
24089 root 37580 S python ./dbus-pvoutput-p4.py
897 root 32952 S {localsettings.p} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/localsettings/localsettings.py --path=/data/conf
892 root 31268 S {netmon} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/netmon/netmon
874 root 29588 S {dbus_systemcalc} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-systemcalc-py/dbus_systemcalc.py
root@einstein:~# ps | sort -k3 -n -r | head
816 root 59124 S /opt/victronenergy/venus-platform/venus-platform
909 root 56144 S {dbus-modbus-cli} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-modbus-client/dbus-modbus-client.py
1729 root 52244 S {mqtt-rpc.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/mqtt-rpc/mqtt-rpc.py
1730 root 48268 S /usr/bin/flashmq
811 root 44236 S {vrmlogger.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/vrmlogger/vrmlogger.py
833 root 41600 S {venus-button-ha} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/venus-button-handler/venus-button-handler -D
24089 root 37580 R python ./dbus-pvoutput-p4.py
897 root 32952 S {localsettings.p} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/localsettings/localsettings.py --path=/data/conf
892 root 31268 S {netmon} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/netmon/netmon
874 root 29588 R {dbus_systemcalc} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-systemcalc-py/dbus_systemcalc.py
root@einstein:~# ps | sort -k3 -n -r | head
816 root 64872 S /opt/victronenergy/venus-platform/venus-platform
909 root 56144 S {dbus-modbus-cli} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-modbus-client/dbus-modbus-client.py
1729 root 52244 S {mqtt-rpc.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/mqtt-rpc/mqtt-rpc.py
1730 root 48268 S /usr/bin/flashmq
811 root 44236 S {vrmlogger.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/vrmlogger/vrmlogger.py
833 root 41600 S {venus-button-ha} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/venus-button-handler/venus-button-handler -D
24089 root 37580 S python ./dbus-pvoutput-p4.py
897 root 32952 S {localsettings.p} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/localsettings/localsettings.py --path=/data/conf
892 root 31788 S {netmon} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/netmon/netmon
874 root 29588 S {dbus_systemcalc} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-systemcalc-py/dbus_systemcalc.py
root@einstein:~# ps | sort -k3 -n -r | head
816 root 66196 S /opt/victronenergy/venus-platform/venus-platform
909 root 56144 S {dbus-modbus-cli} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-modbus-client/dbus-modbus-client.py
1729 root 52244 S {mqtt-rpc.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/mqtt-rpc/mqtt-rpc.py
1730 root 48268 S /usr/bin/flashmq
811 root 44236 S {vrmlogger.py} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/vrmlogger/vrmlogger.py
833 root 41600 S {venus-button-ha} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/venus-button-handler/venus-button-handler -D
897 root 32952 S {localsettings.p} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/localsettings/localsettings.py --path=/data/conf
892 root 31788 S {netmon} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/netmon/netmon
874 root 29588 S {dbus_systemcalc} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-systemcalc-py/dbus_systemcalc.py
895 root 28852 S {dbus_digitalinp} /usr/bin/python3 -u /opt/victronenergy/dbus-digitalinputs/dbus_digitalinputs.py /dev/gpio/digital_input_1 /dev/g
root@einstein:~#
Should I be concerned as this happened after the Venus upgrade to 3.6x. 3.5x was stable. Unfortunately I don’t have the same stats on the Venus.
Ingo