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High CPU usage - HoubaCZ - 2025-10-08
Hi,
So I recently got into homelabbing, if you can even call it that, so I'm still bad at this, so I apologize for any mistakes in advance. Following some tutorials, I installed CasaOS on my old PC, which runs Debian, and through that I installed Jellyfin (Nvidia GPU). Now my problem is that when I'm trying to watch a film or a series, my CPU usage spikes up to like 85%. I read some posts that said it might have something to do with subtitles, but I have them turned off. I have Nvidia drivers installed, and my GPU usage does go up to like 12% from 0%. Sometimes the video lags for like 3 seconds and the audio keeps going. Is it possible that my CPU is just too old? What would be the solution to this?
I have attached some logs that I got from the Jellyfin dashboard, although I had to delete some lines from the beginning of the log.txt since it was too large to attach.
Specs:
Jellyfin: 10.10.6
GPU: 1060(6gb)
CPU: I5-8400