In its current role it's a 'headless' system but with a monitor (TV) attached, accessed over Telnet.It seems to think you're booted to console. Is that the case? Even if not, then why is xorg running...
It's mostly been this way since I started using it over 5 years ago, and having it boot to an unusable without mouse or keyboard GUI previously had no adverse consequences so I left it that way. I do sometimes use it locally and I am using X to allow an occasional RDP connection from my Windows PC - I'm not currently doing that so that shouldn't be the issue.
When I have run 'top' my background Python programs usually sits atop of 'top' using ~3%. That's because they poll but it's not enough to have caused issues. I luckily caught a glimpse of that here -
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 770 root 20 0 249320 72432 51696 R 98.3 7.8 18:15.40 Xorg 852 pi 20 0 121508 25156 20548 R 34.2 2.7 7:43.24 wireplumb+ 169 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 33.2 0.0 7:39.70 irq/43-vc+ 486 message+ 20 0 7924 4192 3424 R 13.0 0.5 3:16.70 dbus-daem+ 316 root 20 0 24548 5624 4140 S 6.6 0.6 1:39.22 (udev-wor+ 1 root 20 0 35840 9972 7932 S 5.6 1.1 1:25.33 systemd 170 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 5.6 0.0 3:00.11 irq/44-vc+ 505 root 20 0 31024 6688 5920 S 4.3 0.7 0:56.76 systemd-l+ 855 pi 20 0 59996 17048 5960 S 3.0 1.8 0:40.49 pythonI updated the Boot Loader EEPROM, rebooted and still the same. Even caught a glimpse of 106% for Xorg.
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pi@Pi4B:~ $ vmstat 2procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 4 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 56 15 886 1437 18 37 45 0 0 2 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 0 626 3627 5816 17 38 45 0 0 2 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 0 30 3469 5612 18 36 47 0 0 3 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 0 0 3379 5541 16 40 44 0 0 2 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 0 10 3727 6265 21 39 39 0 0 2 0 0 220992 47704 381788 0 0 0 0 3314 5607 20 36 44 0 0Code:
pi@Pi4B:~ $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache availableMem: 907 334 209 5 424 572Swap: 2047 0 2047Code:
pi@Pi4B:~ $ uname -aLinux Pi4B 6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.20-1+rpt1~bpo12+1 (2025-03-19) aarch64 GNU/LinuxStatistics: Posted by hippy — Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:49 pm