Constantly rising load

[sfbuch (anre buch)]

hi,

i rund homeassistant os on a raspberry pi 4 (4gb). after setting up and configurating the system i have the raspi now running and two wall mounted tablets and the phones to use home assistant.

the problem is: over the weeks, the load has been rising constantly without adding any new graphs or illustrations or devices to my dashboard.

what could be the reason and how can i fix it?

[Burningstone]

Did you configure the recorder and history to not include everything?

[sfbuch (anre buch)]

no, i did not. how can i do this?

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