ffmpeg is transcoding your video files and is making the Pogoplug work. Typically when it is doing so you won't see much of an issue with connections or any issue with other devices connected to your LAN.
If you don't need the videos transcoded then you should turn that feature off in your media settings.
Categories: Pogoplug Classic
Running a GoFlex Net with pogoplug 2.5.6 and my Net will all but hang for hours then clear up. I noticed in SSH (after waiting 5 minutes for the prompt) that ffmpeg was eating 93% of the RAM and 19% CPU, hbplug was 22% of the CPU.
After a few hours it seemed to clear up, so I logged in to check the processes and found:
Mem: 123968K used, 2092K free, 0K shrd, 328K buff, 33172K cached
CPU: 99% usr 0% sys 0% nice 0% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% softirq
Load average: 1.08 1.02 1.01
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND
2841 2732 root R 83684 66% 99% /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/ffmpeg -y
2847 2846 root R 3400 3% 1% top
2732 404 root S 22216 18% 0% /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/hbplug
1 0 root S 3400 3% 0% init
379 1 root S 3208 3% 0% ntpd -g
2846 2845 root S 2676 2% 0% -bash
405 1 root S 2672 2% 0% -sh
2845 481 root S 2580 2% 0% /usr/sbin/dropbear -P /var/dropbear.p
481 1 root S 2100 2% 0% /usr/sbin/dropbear -P /var/dropbear.p
404 1 root S 1696 1% 0% /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/hbwd /usr
72 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [kswapd0]
586 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [pdflush]
590 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [pdflush]
4 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [events/0]
5 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [khelper]
45 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [kblockd/0]
3 2 root SWN 0 0% 0% [ksoftirqd/0]
403 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [xce]
2 0 root SW< 0 0% 0% [kthreadd]
48 2 root SW< 0 0% 0% [khubd]
Mem: 124080K used, 1980K free, 0K shrd, 328K buff, 33300K cached
CPU: 100% usr 0% sys 0% nice 0% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% softirq
Load average: 1.07 1.02 1.00
ffmpeg taking 99% CPU and 66% Mem?
Thanks, but i have been having issues with the drives dropping away while the Net device remains "green" I finally let it sit and eventually was able to SSH into it to see what was happening while it was in this unusable super slow state. The drives would drop off and it acted hung.
After leaving it sit for several hours it all seemed to come back up "normal" except that that much CPU/MEMORY was still being used.
I have used Linux since it came on a couple floppies. Everytime I have seen that much processor being used by a single program its been indicative of something going wrong somewhere.
You are saying that that much processing being given to one process is normal on Pogoplugs though?

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