I’ve been running ROCK on a an Intel NUC for the past year or so. Suddenly, after the most recent update, I have found the NUC running its fan full blast and overheating. Shut it down and restart, and it runs normally for a day or two, then it does it again. Whatever is happening seems to start in the middle of the night since I discover the overheating first thing in the morning.
Any suggestion on where to look? Logs are full of all sorts of crap that looks suspicious only because of the volume of entries. None look particularly panic stricken.
Aside from physically cleaning the unit, fan, vent ports, etc. (which you might check even if it seems software related) have you added any music lately that may be causing the Roon to scan files?
Could also try reinstalling the OS from the webui (does not affect DB just “refreshes” the OS). Make sure to have a good backup just in case, though.
I would also look at the settings/library and see how your analysis speed is setup. Clean the library in settings/library. Clear image cache in settings/setup. Take a look in the BIOS and see if there are any anomalies (make sure turbo mode is off, voltages out of range, fan speed issues).
How old is the NUC? I know you said you have been using ROCK for the past year but if the unit is older than that it might need new thermal paste on the CPU? would be a good opportunity to really clean the fan and heat sinks, also.
I noticed that after the last song of an album ends the queue doesn’t clear. It seems Roon is still “playing” (or trying to play) the last song even though it has ended. It even shows the pause button in the now playing screen. This might account for activity that heats up the nuc and launches the fans. Could you check your queue when the NUC heats up to see if it’s similar to my situation?
@Bolus Playback was paused when I noticed the overheating.
@bearFNF NUC is pretty old. NUC7I7. Internal SSD, but no internal spinning drive. Opened up the NUC. All clean. Fan was replaced about a year ago. Haven’t added any music lately.
When it happens again, I’ll just let it cook for a little longer to see if it finishes what ever it is doing. I’m reluctant to start reinstalling things at this point for fear of digging the hole deeper.
Analysis speed is set to single core. When all else fails I’ll plug in a monitor and keyboard and check the Bios.
My ROCK server running on a NUC7I7 machine is currently doing something that is apparently causing high cpu utilization. It’s hot and the fan is running at high speed. It’s early morning here and this likely started sometime in the night. Normally it’s cool and the fan is inaudible.
I took a look at the logs. I’m not sure what determines the start of a new log file, but they all run about 8MB before a new one starts. Current log file stands at about 6MB with entries every few seconds to minutes. Reading them is pretty much impossible for my untrained eyes.
Any suggestions on what to look for. I would really like to understand what is going on before I simply reinstall everything, rescan the library, etc.
Same here. I set my NUC fan to silent when i first set it up about 1 year ago. And 3 days ago i was wondering where that noise in my room came from. It came from my NUC and i NEVER heard my NUC in the past year. I booted to the BIOS and checked if my Settings got reset… nope… all good there. As soon as i start to play songs the NUC starts to “spool up” and once that happend, it wont stop. I have an app, that tells me the powerconsumption of my home and the NUC is pulling watts all the time, as if working hard. but… well its only roon rock on there…
it all started after the last update i believe…
i fixed it for me. i went back to the bios and turned off the Turbo Mode and set it to low energy Mode. It´s an i7 and way quick enough without these features. it was nice and cold and quiet this morning after running all night.
Same here, never happened b4, except when running large scans. I have rebooted a couple of times. It is fairly cool and quiet until I start Roon on a client, then it runs full hot.
Same started happening on my NUC 11 i5 for the first time ever this morning. Reboot changed nothing. If an album is just selected the fan is going crazy. Were there ever proper feedback on this?
What build are you on? EA build 1507 and production Build 1510 solved the issue for me. Seemed (in my case) related tot the KEF playback issue mentioned in the release notes.
