Possibly malfunctioning h7s

[chrcoluk]

Some of you may remember before I reported I had to auto reboot the box every 3 days to keep it working.

Well I have been observing the past few months that on iptv I would get a picture freeze every 2-3 seconds, the obvious thought is a network problem right?

Well if I watch 'top' in the shell every 2-3 seconds the 'si' usage goes to 100%. The software interrupts counter.

I have just clean flashed the latest vix 5.4 image and its still happening.

Given how highly rated these units are I am starting to think mine is defective, but I am hoping someone may know of a workaround to the problem.

# top
top - 18:05:38 up 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00
Tasks: 117 total,   1 running, 116 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.0 us,  0.0 sy,  0.0 ni,  0.0 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,100.0 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :   1004.0 total,    174.9 free,    729.9 used,     99.2 buff/cache
MiB Swap:    256.0 total,    256.0 free,      0.0 used.    241.3 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                         
 2051 root      20   0  145292  73808  15600 S   0.7   7.2   0:12.22 enigma2                                                         
 2193 root      20   0    6288   2276   1940 R   0.7   0.2   0:01.39 top                                                             
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:00.07 rcu_sched                                                       
 1452 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   0:01.58 nxsched                                                         
    1 root      20   0    1604    328    284 S   0.0   0.0   0:01.39 init                                                            
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                                        
    4 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H                                                    
    6 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.08 ksoftirqd/0                                                     
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh                                                          
    9 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                                     
   10 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 lru-add-drain                                                   
   11 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0                                                      
   12 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 cpuhp/0                                                         
   13 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 cpuhp/1                                                         
   14 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1                                                      
   15 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 migration/1                                                     
   16 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1