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I finally got this thing working on my 8 IP cams. Previously I was running into cpu capacity issues when upgrading from ubuntu 16.04 / zoneminder 1.30. The following resolved the capacity issue for me. When defining each camera, under the "storage" tab, I set save_jpegs to disabled and video_writer ...

okee doke - building on jwarfin's comment on memory utilization. we have virtualMemory residentMemory and sharedMemory 1.30zma 1178876 479044 423340 1.32zma 1643376 829956 184848 ------------------------------------------- zma 1.32 has 39% more virtual memory, 73% more resident memory, and 56% less ...

sorry for poor presentation. this post is to make a complete record of the data. My first post of data shown above was running the script on v1.32 on ubuntu 18.04.02 . What follows is v1.30.4 on ubuntu 16.04.06 . 14884 (zma) S 14845 14845 14831 0 -1 1077936128 10875 0 0 0 1017 33 0 0 20 0 1 0 726550...

I'm finding zma (analyzer) consumes about 4 times the processor time in 1.32 compared to 1.30. zmc takes less. My experimental setup: Hardware is i7-5600u with hard drive and 16gb ram and a single hikvision 2032 camera running 4 frames / second at 1920x1080. I flip between hard drives to do experime...

Just reporting on experiences I've had with hardware. I'm using a Dell Latitude e7450 system with i7-5600u (5th generation Intel processor) with 16gb ram. I have 7 wired network cams driven by poe switch which also hosts the e7450 (thereby keeping traffic off my main router) plus one wifi cam (which...

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A common occurrence with all versions of zoneminder is for it to stop. There are various postings suggesting it might be mysql or other conditions that overloaded the system. In the latter, there is no hint on determining which condition triggered the overload. Work arounds have been suggested by ma...

Ya i figured using the ssd for the os. the medium formats look like they have similar disk quantity limitations. why isn't using a laptop a good idea? I've been running for 3 years on an old dell laptop i7-3540M with 8 FHD cams recording at 5 fps. zoneminder reports a load of 7. I find the 2tb+1tb d...

I just looked at the PPA 1.32 and I think the 1.32.3 has those fixed..... I know that 1.33.3 is working well ha! I got it right. I said " (Installation of 1.30 was problematic. - add monitor wouldn't work. someone else posted a fix somewhere.)" Didn't say 1.32. Install of 1.30 was problematic after...

Looking to add more disk space for zoneminder while keeping a small footprint. Using an older dvd laptop, I swapped out the dvd for a sata drive holder - that works nice - so I have two drives in a single laptop. Long term though this is no good because as a laptop ugrade many have gone with ssd and...

Just adding a bit here. A few days ago I did a full clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 with Zoneminder 1.32. Mine went 100% cpus after adding just a few cameras. I set mocord to record thinking maybe analysis of frames was driving up the cpu. My 8 cameras pump out at 5 frames a second or less. Under prio...

sorry for the misleading subject line. What i really did was a full new install of ubuntu 18.04 and zoneminder 1.32. 1.32 looks nice but the quad cpus went full 100% after adding just a few cameras. Gave up. Now back to ubuntu 16.04 with zoneminder 1.30. (Installation of 1.30 was problematic. - add ...

i upgraded an otherwise smooth running system from ubuntu 16.04 / 1.30<-i think. Now i'm on ubuntu 18.04 desktop with 1.32 and my 4 processors run at 100%. for installing lamp i picked mariadb instead of mysql. is that a factor? or maybe its just that the newer release needs more cpu horsepower? i'm...

i'd like to configure a laptop with internal ssd and external usb harddrive (or external usb harddrive array) to run zoneminder. I'm aware that ssd's cannot handle write volumes (from life expectancy issues) and of course the required large volumes are too darn expensive anyway. So I was thinking of...

Ok - this worked. User ids and Group Ids on the defective drive won't match the conventions on the new drive. mount --bind comes to mind but this won't work with ext4 system. Hence bindfs is the tool to use. Recall we have a new live drive with a new working zoneminder and we have an old drive with ...