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Hi WanWizard,

I agre with your first part, but not with the conclusion.

The CPU is not overloaded by visible processes.
But the overall system is overloaded.
Load average is not only about CPU. It calculates how long CPU is waiting for network, disks and comunicating with other devices on kernel level.
If the problem is in kernel modul you will not see it in top but in load average yes.
If some kernel modul is doing something nasty, load average will be hight but none process will show it.
Kernel modul could be the problem here.
Thats why somebody should look at it.
Somebody from HiSilicon, becaude this kernel modules contains closed code direct from HiSilicon.


 

Hi Klington and openpli team.
I have hd66se too with the same behavior. 

I think it is not image related problem. The same problem is on any enigma like images.
I had been testing images openatv7.3, openatv6.4,openpli 9.0, openpli 8, PureE2, openVision with the same results.

But I think it is not "fake high load readings".
If so it will be high load average (>13) in any situation.
But it is only when you load in kernel mod hd66se_4.
This kernel module is problematic.
All images share the same kernel modules.
 

If you try to load only hd66se_1 + 2 + 3 the load average remain on level near 0.

The same situation is on other HiSilicon like boxes as zgemma9 with hi3798mv200 and kernel 4.4.35.
I think that this kernel modul is compiled from the same sources.

I dont have any posibility how to see  sourcecode. It is closed. But maybe somebody here has contact on people which created this kernel module. 
I would be nice to look on them specialy on <machine name>_4.