Overheating after update HAOS 15.0

After updating to Home Assistant OS 15.0 the CPU usage sky rocket to 90% also the temp to 72ºCelsius (before the average was 45ºC)

Actual versions:

  • Core 2025.3.3
  • Supervisor 2025.03.3
  • Operating System 15.0
  • Frontend 20250306.0

My hardware is a lenovo M90Q with an i5 9400T

Someone else have these issues?

Try rebooting your system and check if the issue persists. If so use htop to find out which process is causing this high load. The processes shown in your screenshot are not using much CPU cycles.

I reboot several times and also use htop command to find out what´s going on with no result, the first image is the result of htop

Please run the command “iostat -c” and post the output.

what is supposed to show the command?

“iostat -c” not “iostat -c~”

ohh sorry, my bad

The solution… rollback

ha os update --version 14.2

Hope future update resolve this issue

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If you still want to search for the root cause:

  • 87% of time spent in user space indicates that its not a kernel issue. It could be a custom component or add-on for example that causes this.
  • The next step would be to ssh into the root OS and look at top, iostat, docker stats outputs. To do that you need to setup HAOS root access. See here how to do that: Debugging the Home Assistant Operating System | Home Assistant Developer Docs
  • It might be enough though to use the add-on “Advanced SSH and Web Terminal” and disable “secure mode” in the add-on. You can then run “docker stats” and check if any of the add-ons are causing the issue.

interesting, yes i will look at this in my testing enviroment, I want to know why in the version 14.2 all is working fine and with the 15 not.

Also have a raspberry pi 4 with HAOS 15 and that is working perfect, so the issue is only for x86 devices, I saw a lot of people with the same issue.

I just found this: after update to OS 15 CPU load extremely high · Issue #3941 · home-assistant/operating-system

It looks like add-ons that do image processing (e.g. frigate) can cause this. Do you use image processing add-ons?

Ohh. Yes I use frigate with a google coral for image processing. But also with the frigate add on turned off the % of CPU still the same with 90% average used

OK then you would need to dig deeper to find out.

The issue persist on OS version 15.1 With no posible solution jet