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im going to remove one card from the system, and try your bttv-options. Assuming i get this fixed somehow: Ive now been asked to up the anti. 5 x KMC8000 so that i can have 5 x 8 inputs at 200fps @640 x 480, and more ip cams, 74 in total, all recording real time. all are megapixel+ cams. im hoping ...

Please excuse all this pasting! When zone minder isnt running: top - 17:47:37 up 4:46, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.08 Tasks: 164 total, 1 running, 163 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4670280k total, 616268k used ...

Ok - I have other more serious problems - but just a quick one: One of cameras has a 'jumping' image every so often. every 20 seconds or so sort of just jumps. This is on a camera that is running telemtry over coax - but this isnt causing any problems on a machine with the same bttv cards, running ...

THE FOLLOWING MUST BE TAKEN WITH A PINCH OF SALT. BECAUSE: i am new to zoneminder myself. only been using for a few days, and am a serious newbie! However, I can make the followig observations: 1) If your running two instances of zoneminder and one database, you need to make sure that things like ...

At the moment, only 4 cameras are connected, so I really can't figure out why load is so high. - not IP cams I'm not using the machine to view the cameras locally - have two workstations for that each showing all four cameras in montage. almost all processing is taken my zmc - multiple instances and ...

Just noticed - i posted this in 1.24 should be in 1.23 - My apologies.

Big install of our own office - decided to test zoneminder. I'm fairly Linux literate, a storage specialist, and worked in Specialist CCTV for a while. Ive decided to run zoneminder on an old Compaq Proliant DL760. The machine has 4.6GB RAM and 8 x PIII 900mhz Xeon Processors, a 1Gbps NIC ...