# High Load Usage - Raspberry Pi 4 GB

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [June 5, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680 "2023-06-05T20:23:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Diesel)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680/1 "2023-06-05T20:23:50Z")

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Hi all,

I used to always be right around or under 1 for Load usage on my 4 gb Rasp PI but have been upwards of 7 to 10 most times I log in and run ‘uptime’ or ‘top’ on Terminal.

I have been down to the barebones of applications on my node - RTL, Lightning Node, Bitcoin Node and Electrs & LNDg is all I have installed.

I don’t know where to begin on understanding why I’m burning through my node and am wondering if this is what’s causing a lot of recent Force Closures. Appreciate any feedback!

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**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680/2 "2023-06-05T23:20:39Z")

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if your running htop or top can you see whats taxing the system?  
for a quad core system anything under 4 is no wait.  
anything over 4 just means theres a wait time and it could be for disk writes or anything

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**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Diesel)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680/3 "2023-06-06T19:47:14Z")

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thanks for the response. It looks like it’s primarily my lnd --configfile or Python rebalancer or Tor or Bitcoind.

Is there somewhere I can compare what I’m seeing to what I ‘should be’ seeing?

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**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/high-load-usage-raspberry-pi-4-gb/12680/4 "2023-06-08T22:58:22Z")

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how bad is it?