Question about FPS and performance

[maikdema]

I've 3 REMOTE cams. 2 AXIS 210 and 1 Panasonic.
The server is a PRoliant DL120 G5 (Dual core Xeon 2GHz), 250GB + 500GB HDDs, Gigabit Ethernet, 1GB RAM with Ubuntu 8.10

I use modect to save events, but this events are saved at maxium of 6FPS... sometimes at less than 1FPS. CPU does not reachs more than 15%

Memory is:
Mem: 1011080k total, 986608k used, 24472k free, 77660k buffers
Swap: 2961400k total, 124944k used, 2836456k free, 545344k cached

I think that it would be a memory problem.
Can Yo confirm it with this values?

If I upgrade t 4GB, Will the FPS increas automatically?

Thanks

[maikdema]

[quote="maikdema"]I've 3 REMOTE cams. 2 AXIS 210 and 1 Panasonic.
The server is a PRoliant DL120 G5 (Dual core Xeon 2GHz), 250GB + 500GB HDDs, Gigabit Ethernet, 1GB RAM with Ubuntu 8.10

I use modect to save events, but this events are saved at maxium of 6FPS... sometimes at less than 1FPS. CPU does not reachs more than 15%

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Memory is:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1011080     986404      24676          0      77732     545376
-/+ buffers/cache:     363296     647784
Swap:      2961400     124944    2836456

I think that it would be a memory problem.
Can Yo confirm it with this values?

If I upgrade t 4GB, Will the FPS increas automatically?

Thanks[/code]

[Lee Sharp]

I have 2ghz P4s with 2 gig of ram doing better with 4 analog cameras. Yes, go to 4 gig, and bump your shared memory. It is cheap.

[maikdema]

I've been searching more about performnce.

I've seen that CPU usage shown on ZM main page is not asI thougth.
1.0 = 100% CPU
2.0 = 200% (or 100% of each CPU if you have 2 cores)

so, I've an average of this value of 1.5~2.0

I think it could be a overload prloblem.

Maybe MODECT to all 3 cams consumes more CPU than it can afford?
I know is a bad idea, but I've X system with gnome installed and runing, showing Montage on the server's room. Does this consume lot of resources?

[river100]

by now you must have tried by... turning off browser and X all together.

if not, then indeed it will bog you down running x and montage view on your zm server.

you should look into other ways to view monitors if you need to have them up 24/7.

even if you view montage on another PC it will increase your load

[maikdema]

I've disabled X at boot, and now I'm getting bit more performance.
From 5 to 8 fps..

maybe the anly solution will be to add more RAM, but... how to know where is the bottlenek? if I upgrde RAM but the CPU is not enought?