ElectroMagic

Hello!

I have been running OpenPLi for many years, since I got the VU+ Duo2. In the beginning everything worked well. After a while, though, the box sometimes became very slow in the menu system and EPG. We're talking going from almost instant response to somewhere from 1-10 seconds from RC button press to response. For some time, this was fixed every time I updated the firmware, but for several years now, it is that  slow in the menus / EPG all the time. I'm attaching a screenshot of my top.

Are the VSZ values ok here? Is the box swapping too much? I put a 480 Gb SSD into the machine with (if I remember correctly) a really bad cache setup. Could this affect the performance?

I made a channel list (or boquet or whatever it's called) somehow using a Windows program, I think, when I first had gotten the box. For some reason the list of channels contains a lot of channels we do not have access to. I would like to create a new list with just the available channels, but I find it a bit hard to find information on how to do this in the OpenPLi forum/wiki.

I would also be very grateful for any help with finding out why the box is so slow in menus / EPG. From what I've read in threads about similar problems, it could be related to an EPG refresh timer that does something that eats RAM more than it should.

Currently, I'm connecting with telnet. I set a root password to enable SSH connection, but I just get a message reading "WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!". I would also like to understand a bit more about the box, like is there an internal flash? Where is the OS stored? Is there a Swap partition? Do I have my EPG data stored in the right place?

Finally, the actual functionality for pausing live TV and recording shows on the internal HD has been working badly since we got the box. I would like to fix this, but regarding that, it could just be the SSD with the bad cache memories that causes problems.

Best regards