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Heating and Excessive CPU usage in VOXL 2 under normal operation

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  • Jyotish KumarJ Offline
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    Jyotish Kumar
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    Greetings,
    I am seeing CPU loads of 50-60 percent while idling in voxl2. I have voxl camera server (which is handling hires (streaming at 480p only to portal)+trecking+ToF sensors), voxl qvio server and mavlink running. Is this kind of cpu usage stat normal? The voxl2 is heating up well over 80C in a room with 24C temp in this situation and a 25mm fan is not helping the situation much.
    I wanted to ask if this is something to be worried about?

    Your advice regarding this will be highly appreciated.
    Thank you.

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    • Jyotish KumarJ Jyotish Kumar

      Greetings,
      I am seeing CPU loads of 50-60 percent while idling in voxl2. I have voxl camera server (which is handling hires (streaming at 480p only to portal)+trecking+ToF sensors), voxl qvio server and mavlink running. Is this kind of cpu usage stat normal? The voxl2 is heating up well over 80C in a room with 24C temp in this situation and a 25mm fan is not helping the situation much.
      I wanted to ask if this is something to be worried about?

      Your advice regarding this will be highly appreciated.
      Thank you.

      Benjamin RuksB Offline
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      Benjamin Ruks
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      @Jyotish-Kumar Same Issues here. Running camera server with 4 tracking cams and px4 flight stack with mavlink server and reaching over 90 Degree CPU temp.

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      • Benjamin RuksB Benjamin Ruks

        @Jyotish-Kumar Same Issues here. Running camera server with 4 tracking cams and px4 flight stack with mavlink server and reaching over 90 Degree CPU temp.

        Steve TurnerS Offline
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        wrote on last edited by
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        Similar to you both:

         voxl-camera-server    |  Enabled  |   Running   |    71.1%
         voxl-cpu-monitor      |  Enabled  |   Running   |     0.1%
         voxl-dfs-server       | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-feature-tracker  | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-flow-server      | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-imu-server       |  Enabled  |   Running   |     1.5%
         voxl-lepton-server    | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-mavcam-manager   | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-mavlink-server   |  Enabled  |   Running   |     0.2%
         voxl-modem            | Disabled  | Not Running |
         voxl-portal           |  Enabled  |   Running   |    60.1%
        

        This is with HIRES, Tracking, Stereo on SDK 1.0. I also disabled large encoding on the HIRES from the camera server. Just bumping to see if this is expected.

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