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Hi
This task is resolved for me:
- it was not really a problem, I just did not exactly understud the way ubuntu is showing me free memory
- the fix for slowing down my system: After a fresh installation I have no more problems

tnx!

Ok, I'm trying to understand the memory and commands (free, htop) we have here. Also I'm running again (new installation) ubuntu 7.10 zoneminder 1.23.3, waiting some time to get the memory full.
I hope we can find the problem of slowing down my ubuntu.

Still the same memory problem = every motion detection = every record, my memory is growing up ca. 10 MB until it is full. Full 2GB! Are my ZM-Settings ok (for this resolution 420x288...), here my screenshots: http://www.you2.ch/mem.gif http://www.you2.ch/zm_modect.gif http://www.you2.ch/zm_option ...

If I see, with the command "htop" or "top" that my computer is beginning to swaping, so in this case I tought it is because out of memory, isn't it ?

like I've been read in many threads and guides in this forum: at the moment I have one cam: 420x288, b/w, PAL
at the end I will have one more with the same attributes.

Are they the right memory settings for this configuration?

hmm... so in this way, what are the line ¦¦¦¦¦ before 222/2018MB - what is it showing? And after starting the command: "top" I can read: Mem: 2067268k total, 2027268k used, 58696 free When I have top or htop open, after every motion detection I see ca. +10MB more of memory used and this is going ...

I have installed htop. Please see the results on: http://www.you2.ch/htop.png Because you can not see on the picture:htop.png the whole line, here is the htop field Command of the marked line: /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ...

I'm watching the result of "top" (I think its the same like "htop") and can see how the memory is getting bigger and bigger .... until my whole memory 2GB. It happens every time the cam is recording an event (function: Modect). Because I've placed the cam on the street = have 100 events per hour ...

No, I'm using a Ubuntu/Server without GUI (gnome) and connecting over my network. The server memory is growing up until it is full 2GB. After that my server ist very slow or I have to reboot.

Everything else is working:
- recording from 1 cam 420x288 b/w PAL
- ffmpeg

I've tried everything I could find in the forum, wiki and google but still have the same problem. I've got 2 GB ram, after a few hours it is full and my ubuntu, server, no x crash.

What can I do now?