voxl-PX4 maxes 2 CPUs

[Rowan Dempster]

Hello,

When I start voxl-px4 on VOXL2 I noticed that the CPU usage goes from 0% to over 25%, is this expected?

[Moderator]

Hi Rowan, which software version are you using, what peripherals do you have connected and is the vehicle armed, etc?

[Rowan Dempster]

@Moderator Hi, I am using SDK1.0. No peripherals attached, just the VOXL2 Board alone.

[Eric Katzfey]

@Rowan-Dempster No, that is definitely not expected. PX4 should only be using a small amount of CPU. Can you disable all other services so it's only PX4 running and see if that changes?

[tom]

@Rowan-Dempster Can you also post the output of voxl-inspect-services so we can see the CPU usage by each service

[Rowan Dempster]

@Eric-Katzfey voxl-px4 and cpu-inspector were the only two services I have running

[Rowan Dempster]

@tom

[tom]

@Rowan-Dempster If you run it as a service with voxl-configure-px4 do you see the same issue?

[tom]

@tom The output of journalctl -u voxl-px4 could be helpful

[Rowan Dempster]

@tom Yes I do

[Rowan Dempster]

@tom Here's the service log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBxlCP5Ppelu4AFKIKV55oLfmyrgcdQC/view?usp=sharing

[Eric Katzfey]

@Rowan-Dempster If you are running voxl-px4 as a service you need to change your /etc/modalai/voxl-px4.conf file to enable daemon mode. Your log shows you have it disabled DAEMON_MODE=DISABLE

[Rowan Dempster]

@Eric-Katzfey I don't have that .conf file, even after I run voxl-configure-px4 (I just select enable)

[tom]

@Rowan-Dempster You need to do voxl-configure-px4 factory_enable

[Rowan Dempster]

@tom That fixed the CPU usage issue, thank you!