Slow Recently Added Episodes



This has been bothering me for a while.  Is there any way to speed up the performance of the Recently added episodes list/widget on the home page?  I’m using Matrix 19.4 but I believe it was happening on previous versions as well.  I’m not able to migrate to a newer version of Kodi right now.

It’s taking about 3 or 4 minutes to update.

My hardware is an SBC Orange Pi 5 with 16GB which is not working hard and has plenty of free memory and disk space.

I’m running Kodi in a docker on my NAS with a MariaDB backend also running in a docker.  I have two Kodi clients connected by WiFi to the LAN.  One is connecting at about 175Mbps on 5G while the 2nd on is connecting at about 292Mbps on 5G.  These speeds vary.

I believe last time I tried looking into this a while ago, I checked the MariaDB slow log and nothing showed up.  I tried manually executing what I thought was the SQL query being run and it returned very quickly in my SQL client…under 100 or 200 milliseconds, I believe, with no errors in the MariaDB or the Kodi logs.

I did a quick search and didn’t really find anything related to this.

Any suggestions on where to look or what to do to improve this would be greatly appreciated.