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I ended up fixing the disk usage display with the following changes in /var/www/htdocs/includes/functions.php: function getDiskPercent($path = ZM_DIR_EVENTS) { $total = disk_total_space($path); if ( $total === false ) { Error("disk_total_space returned false. Verify the web account user has access t...

Have you tried to see if you can view the stream with VLC or something else other than ZoneMinder? Regarding the remote method, as I understand it, the RTP/RTSP option went away somewhere in the 1.30 releases. My Amcrest cameras have a web interface that lets you change a whole bunch of settings, in...

Here is the situation. In order for my wife to actually start ZoneMinder when she leaves home, she needs a minimal amount of navigating and waiting. And honestly, waiting on web pages to load, logging in, clicking a few links, etc. is a bit tedious for me too. So I did some brainstorming, and this i...

I have been monitoring the load average more closely. I found that even if I had next to nothing running on the system, the lowest the load average would go was 1. It turns out it is because there is a process called "rtsx_usb_ms_2" that is constantly waiting on disk I/O. dan@zmserver:~# ps -e v | a...

Hm, no, I haven't seen errors like that. I am running 1.30.4, though. It would be worth submitting a bug report if the same script worked fine on 1.30.x. If you haven't done so already, also check whether zm-alarm.pl has been changed in 1.31.x.

I see....nice. I made a daemon using the zm-alarm.php script which I use as a base to modify too do various functions according to the state of the monitors. This example is to send one email only for a set period of time..... https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?p=103057#p103057 Can I try o...

I found a couple pages that explain the difference between CPU utilization and load average. Apparently, the load average is not really just the average utilization over a length of time. It is possible to have a low utilization but high load average, or vice versa. http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles...

Regarding the disk load, this comes from the php function sys_getloadavg. It is also the same number that uptime and htop report. Anyone know where that number comes from? It does not agree with what top and /proc/stat report, and it seems way too high, considering it remains above 1 even when neith...

So I've dug a little deeper into the disk usage issue. It turns out that the numbers come from the php functions disk_total_space and disk_free_space. I made this simple php script to test it: <?php $total = disk_total_space("/var/www/htdocs/zm/events"); $free = disk_free_space("/var/www/htdocs/zm/e...

question.... are you using a script similar to zm-alarm.pl to detect events and send the email?? I do the same thing but I do not have the memory map being retained issue that you mention. My scripts for ZM event detection are based on zm-alarm.pl Yes, it's similar to that but a bit more complicate...

So I discovered a problem with this script. When ZoneMinder stops, the running script prevents the memory map in /dev/shm from being deleted, and when ZoneMinder starts up again, a new one is created. This leads to increasing memory usage every time ZoneMinder is started. Unfortunately, calling zmMe...

Well, I believe I figured out my problem with /dev/shm. I have a script that sends automatic notifications when motion is detected. (I know there is a native way to do this in ZM, but it is not instantaneous. See my post in the User Contributions forum.) This keeps running even when ZoneMinder itsel...

I'm certain that this isn't simply an issue of not having enough RAM. I am using a single 1280x960 camera at 3FPS, with the standard 50 frame buffer. The /dev/shm usage increases predictably by about 12% each time I restart ZoneMinder. You are correct that the total size of /dev/shm is 2 GB. I am go...

Ugh, more issues with my new server. These ones are actually serious, unlike the load and disk usage display issues in my other thread. I noticed that /dev/shm kept getting more and more full every time I started and stopped ZoneMinder (changing the run state). After about 5-10 of these, it filled u...

I am running ZoneMinder 1.30.4 on Slackware (using the build script here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/ZoneMinder/ , modified only to bump the version to 1.30.4). I recently migrated the database from my laptop, where I was testing it, to a new dedicated server. This server is just ...