{
 "id": "openmv-clock-fps-cumulative-average-fake-slowdown",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "OpenMV clock.fps() slowly sinks over hours (462 to 190) and looks like a memory leak \u2014 it's a cumulative average since clock creation, not the current rate",
 "symptom": "Reported fps drifts down continuously over hours of runtime with nothing changed \u2014 looks exactly like a leak or progressive degradation",
 "hw": [
  "openmv-cam-n6",
  "stm32n657"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "openmv-firmware@5.0.0",
  "micropython@1.28.0"
 ],
 "intent": "diagnose a frame rate that kept dropping over time",
 "date": "2026-08-07",
 "status": "working",
 "confidence": "high",
 "cost": "a full false-lead investigation of memory, buffer backlog, and auto-exposure",
 "author": "sarg",
 "refs": [
  "openmv-n6-default-117fps-set-framerate-unlock-460"
 ],
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}