After initially providing some interaction, now the OS locks up shortly after reboot. I’m going to try to add more boards to see if it is board-specific. Let me know if there is more information I can provide, but it seems currently the OS release is not usable.
Mem: 1743304K used, 232836K free, 6308K shrd, 41984K buff, 1267876K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 99% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.92 1.17 0.54 2/272 3194
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
2397 1 root S 1457m 75% 0% /usr/bin/balena-containerd-shim-runc-v2 -namespace moby -id XXXX -address /var/run/balena-engine/c
3086 3080 root R 3620 0% 0% top
1587 1552 root S 1458m 75% 0% balena-engine-containerd --config /var/run/balena-engine/containerd/containerd.toml --log-level info
2675 1 openvpn S 9428 0% 0% /usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /run/openvpn/openvpn.pid --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf --connect-retry 5 120
919 2 root IW 0 0% 0% [kworker/0:11-ev]
2418 2397 root S 10.4g 553% 0% node /usr/src/app/dist/app.js
I got the above from top on a fresh unit. Still working fine for now, but why is app.js taking up so much virtual memory?
Anyway, I’m up-and-running for now with this second unit, but would love to diagnose what is happening to the other one. There’s always a chance I grabbed a prototype unit.
On the “bad” device, I was eventually able to see the CPU load drop back down to below 50%. When trying to access the terminal, it kept connecting and then disconnecting.
Connecting to XXXXX...
SSH session disconnected
SSH reconnecting...
SSH session disconnected
SSH reconnecting...
SSH session disconnected
SSH reconnecting...
SSH session disconnected
I thought perhaps this could be to having multiple VPN connections, so I unplugged the Ethernet cable (still connected via WiFi), but this seemed to make no difference.
It could have been I had a bad app, but not sure how. Anyway, the problem just went away.
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