Is it good practice to restart Pi every few days?

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Disable node-red.

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ok … currently i am moving my automations to the in build automations of HA but it will take some time

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Press F6, then choose the ‘PERCENT_MEM’ option

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thanks, but what I meant is that while the Pi had the problem, it was not very responsive and was not able to sort by Mem from my mobile phone

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That’s due to the 30x load it has from the memory swapping going on.

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yes I noticed that … so problem is that 1GB RAM is not enough?

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In your specific case, it could be just that, or some kind of memory leak with the application/plugin(s) it has.

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thanks … do you think there is a way to expose the swap usage to HA ?

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If you checked all your Addons and the memory leak is still happening, try searching for automations/scripts/etc that somehow use more memory each time they’re used/triggered.

It’s not an easy task to track down the actual problem, but you’ll find it.

Meanwhile, schedule a reboot everyday at 04:00AM or someting like that. HA not being available for 3 minutes during late night won’t cause any harm, I guess :wink:

Something like this:

automation:
  - alias: 'Restart HA daily'
    trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: '04:00:00'
    action:
      service: hassio.host_reboot
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yes that is that worst case scenario :slight_smile: