In use or just sitting there, doing nothing?root@Ultimo:~# uptime
06:21:10 up 21 days, 14:06, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.19, 0.14
Can you please send me the output of
"opkg list_installed"
by PN?
BTW: Since day one, I have already replaced the "original" Samsung Desktop-HDD with a Western Digital AV-optimized harddisk, added a third tuner, moved that new third tuner to tuner slot B when I later replaced the third tuner with a twin-tuner, tried ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs file systems, tried to move the timeshift buffer to USB, moved the smartcards from the box to my router, replaced oscam with an "I can do nothing but be a client" and so on and so on.
I can exclude hardware or thermical problems:
The box works like a charm for some hours after rebooting but behaves like a bitch again after max. 24h. As it is booting from hot to hot it won't cool down that much during reboot that it wouldn't behave like a bitch again after a much shorter time.
Misbehaviour also varies greatly:
When watching mkv/mp4/avi/mpg from server,
- picture stands still, sound continies
- video continues, sound is muted
- giant artefacts
especially after pausing and resuming playback.
Sometimes jumping back and forward recovers, but most times doesn't help. Video plays back just great after reboot, even after pausing/resuming a zillion times.
Watching timeshifted TV, I more or less frequently get more or less giant artefacts. They are not inside the stream, jumping back 1 minute plays the same part just fine. This is a known problem of the Ultimo.
PS:
I can easily let the box run 300 days without rebooting it. It just is a pain in the ass to watch anything after max. 24h.
Using identical Plugins & Co. on a friends Duo² doesn't produce ANY problems.
But we (I) are becoming off topic. I was talking about known but unfixed bugs in OpenPLi components which can easily be reproduced on any box, not my specific problems with my box/model of which I actually know they do not occur on other models but with any image on (my) Ultimo.
Have you tried using the cacheflush plugin... I used to have your symptoms with my Duo until I started using this, and now I don't need to reboot very often (usually each week when I update the image).