Issue Description: I have been having this issue with my raspberry pi running dietPi where it seems to lock up and I cannot SSH / access any of the services on it. The interesting part is that the interface seems to be up and I can still ping it on the local network but shows no video output. usually I get about 3-6 days before the issue appears again.

I am not really sure where to start to diagnose this issue. Any help would be appreciated!

Things Tried:

Reduced operating temp by getting a fan. I want to say this improved the length in between this issue appearing but don’t really have any hard evidence.

uninstalled unused services

Limited active torrents in QbitTorrent

EDIT: Small thing to mention is that the CPU load is usually really high - like not uncommon for the load to be between 8-10 but I have seen it as high as 24.

Temporary fix:

Power cycle - everything comes up again in less than a minute.

Raspberry Pi 3B v2

OS: DietPi

Services:

Lidarr

Radarr

Sonarr

Prowlarr

Qbittorrent

Mullvad VPN - WireGaurd

SSH

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I’d bet $1 it’s the SD card. My 3B+ used to have the same problem. Been running pis off some sort of SSD ever since, no issues.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Pi 3B has dedicated bus for SD card but ethernet and usb share bandwidth. Enable zram, disable all swap and keep using sd card.

    • AverageGoob@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Id be willing to try this. How do you have it connected? Just using an external USB attached one?

      • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I upgraded to the Pi4 but I use this case. It has a daughter board that lets me use an m.2 SATA SSD over USB. But any USB to SATA adapter should work fine

        • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          You should get a scsi enabled adapter though, otherwise you may have to disable it in the kernel boot settings. And if you forget that it will run at like kbit/s.

    • jores@c.im
      21·
      11 months ago

      @a_fancy_kiwi I agree, same here. This is the last pi that’s running off an SD card with services that do “significant” disk I/O. I have a few zeros that only really write to the card for OS updates. Their job is to collect data and send it via the network. I haven’t had issues with that kind of workload using micro SD cards.

      Edit: For Pis with write workloads I’m using basic USB3 SSDs. Didn’t have good results with USB sticks though.