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Thanks for that. CPU remains the same, 32%. I'll watch disk, hope as my daily clean-ups run that storage utilization goes down. Is there some place that explains what each of these settings does -- and the trade-off for disabling, or for other options within? There seem to be hundreds of options wit...

Andyrh, I found, set the settings per your guidance. See attached shot to confirm nothing else needed. CPU is still steady at 32%, no reduction there, but RAM use is now lower, went from 363MiB to 244MiB, so also an improvement. Thanks very much!!

Thanks very much @Andyrh! I searched for where/how to set camera passthrough (haven't found it yet) , but found the Tips section at https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Guide. I applied the tip to limit analysis FPS 1-2 FPS. That immediately reduced zmc CPU from 40-50% to a steady 32%, sometimes down...

Hello, I have ZM 1.26.25 running on a new, fairly beefy (for Linux) laptop, monitoring only one camera. ZM brings it to its knees to the point that I can do almost nothing else on the laptop. Core i5-1135G7 2.4Ghz, 12GB RAM, TB hard drive. LinuxMint Mate 20.3. I've had to resort to stopping ZM via t...

Hello, I found a post from 2010 in which someone asked if ZM could be installed in a shared hosting environment. One reply said yes, the other no, but it could be done on a VPS. I'd like to refresh the topic, since the question was asked nine years ago, and things may have changed with ZM since then...