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by chipdewolfe
Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:58 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: PurgeWhenFull filter...how is the disk percent calculated
Replies: 1
Views: 1597

PurgeWhenFull filter...how is the disk percent calculated

I have scoured Google, the wiki and forums for an answer to this question and haven't been successful in finding one. I have the PurgeWhenFull filter set to start deleting oldest events when Disk Percent reaches 90. How is that 90 determined? Here's why I'm asking... My system has four partitions ...
by chipdewolfe
Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:48 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Large scale Zoneminder
Replies: 4
Views: 3342

Re: Large scale Zoneminder

Hi! Interesting. Does the speed increase if you switch the monitors to monitor function only? Have you tried mpeg4? I hadn't tried MPEG4, but I had switched to monitors only on half the cameras, and it cut my load in half. I went from 52.00 to 26.00 lighting up only 29 cameras to record. In the end ...
by chipdewolfe
Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:44 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Large scale Zoneminder
Replies: 4
Views: 3342

Re: Large scale Zoneminder

Replying to my own post. I have Zoneminder running like a well-oiled machine now. The hunch that paid off was that xfs was the problem. Anytime that I did a process list, there were tons of xfs processes going on. I know xfs doesn't like lots of small files, but I went with it because it was the ...
by chipdewolfe
Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:29 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Large scale Zoneminder
Replies: 4
Views: 3342

Large scale Zoneminder

This is pretty experimental...I've run Zoneminder with 10-20 camera setups, but never anything this big. I am having a very difficult time managing the load...none of my configuration changes seem to have any impact. I have a new Zoneminder 1.25 setup on a CentOS 6.2 64-bit system. The machine has 4 ...