Is Raspberry Pi 3B + still viable? I'm crashing almost every day.

[magic7s]

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Describe the issue you are experiencing

Memory is bouncing off 100%, normally over 90% and hits 95%+ a lot (I setup an alert). Power cycle is required. I can ping the host but SSH does not connect nor does UI.

How can I troubleshoot better?

What operating system image do you use?

rpi3-64 (Raspberry Pi 3 64-bit OS)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

8.2

Did you upgrade the Operating System.

Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Launching add-ons like VS Code or ESP Home crash the OS.

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Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

Just the current log (after power cycle)

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

Just the current boot log (after power cycle)

System Health information

System Health

version	core-2022.6.6
installation_type	Home Assistant OS
dev	false
hassio	true
docker	true
user	root
virtualenv	false
python_version	3.9.12
os_name	Linux
os_version	5.15.32-v8
arch	aarch64
timezone	America/Los_Angeles

Home Assistant Community Store

GitHub API	ok
GitHub Content	ok
GitHub Web	ok
GitHub API Calls Remaining	4896
Installed Version	1.25.5
Stage	running
Available Repositories	1071
Downloaded Repositories	7

Home Assistant Cloud

logged_in	true
subscription_expiration	July 23, 2022 at 5:00 PM
relayer_connected	true
remote_enabled	true
remote_connected	true
alexa_enabled	true
google_enabled	false
remote_server	us-west-2-0.ui.nabu.casa
can_reach_cert_server	ok
can_reach_cloud_auth	ok
can_reach_cloud	ok

Home Assistant Supervisor

host_os	Home Assistant OS 8.2
update_channel	stable
supervisor_version	supervisor-2022.05.3
agent_version	1.2.1
docker_version	20.10.14
disk_total	58.7 GB
disk_used	7.0 GB
healthy	true
supported	true
board	rpi3-64
supervisor_api	ok
version_api	ok
installed_addons	Mosquitto broker (6.1.2), Zigbee2MQTT (1.25.2-1), Studio Code Server (5.1.1), Eufy Security Add-on (0.9.2), Terminal & SSH (9.4.0), Home Assistant Google Drive Backup (0.108.2), File editor (5.3.3), ESPHome (2022.6.2)

Dashboards

dashboards	3
resources	1
views	4
mode	storage

Recorder

oldest_recorder_run	June 24, 2022 at 11:15 AM
current_recorder_run	July 3, 2022 at 5:53 PM
estimated_db_size	325.90 MiB
database_engine	sqlite
database_version	3.34.1

Additional information

No response

[magic7s]

I was using the 64 bit HAOS and switched to 32 bit and it is much snappier and lower memory utilization.

[groenmarsmannetje]

I also have the feeling that memory consumption of Home Assistant has become too high to properly run on a Raspberry PI 3+ Rev. B. It is really pushing between 80%-90% now. And I already had to stop almost all addons, besides the ones that I really depend on (MQTT, Zigbee2Mqtt, SSH and SAMBA). But as soon as the systeem needs to do some "extra work" it will become unresponsive until it automatically will restart because Watchdog interfenes with a kill process.

There are clearly performance optimizations needed to properly run on this device or make a clear statement that these devices are no longer supported.

[HarvsG]

I am using the 3B+ 64-bit with: Sensors: 122 Lights: 26 - mostly zigbee Switches: 18 Binary sensors: 33 Automations: 51 and a few add-ons I have quite high memory use:

[groenmarsmannetje]

After reading about 32-bit vs. 64-bit on Raspberry Pi 3+. I moved back to 32-bit. That uses approx. 20% less memory and runs smooth.

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[kongo09]

I have the same challenge in a rather tiny setup. Glad that I found this issue so I know that it's not just me, but there seems to be a general problem. Unfortunately, the 32bit version of HAOS doesn't support some important add-ons like the unifi console or the visual studio code server.

It would be great to read some advice on usage of 32 vs. 64 bit in the official installation documentation.

[github-actions[bot]]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue recently. To keep our backlog manageable we have to clean old issues, as many of them have already been resolved with the latest updates. Please make sure to update to the latest Home Assistant OS version and check if that solves the issue. Let us know if that works for you by adding a comment 👍 This issue has now been marked as stale and will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.