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Sorry for the late reply but i got busy and just finished dropping mysql and replaced it with mariadb as suggested by bbunge. Please see observations below for zm 1.36.5 with mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.29-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2: The iowait is now down to 7.2% to ...

To: burger: Try lowering analysis FPS (on ZM) and or lower resolution or framerates (on the cameras, not zm). This will lower CPU / ram usage. = the load is tolerable. i am just curious why with the same setup (hardware, fps, resolution, number of cameras etc) has the 1.36.5 showing higher cpu load ...

1.30.4 = 24 analog recording + 6 ip monitor + 1 ip recording to jpeg

1.36.5 = 24 analog recording + 6 ip monitor + 1 ip recording with h264 passthrough

I will try using mariadb and see if there is any load differences vs mysql.

Thanks for the quick reply.

HARDWARE: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz MemTotal: 8048476 kB SOFTWARE: We have 2 HDD (both WD 4TB Purple) System A: Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-210-generic x86_64) uname -a Linux ***-*** 4.4.0-210-generic #242-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:57:56 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...

After reviewing the steps to install, I realized zoneminder 1.32 was installed on top of a 1.30.4 without removing the 1.30.4. After backing up the events from 1.30.4, I purged zoneminder from the system, removed all zm-related directories and drop zm from mysql and reinstalled 1.32. Now, we do NOT ...

Thanks. I will give your suggestion a try.

ZM Server: Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-139-generic x86_64) I was also thinking browser related error but this morning I noticed error message "Unable to validate swap image path, disabling buffered playback." just before the socket error. I changed ZM_PATH_SWAP from /tmp/zm to ...

Just upgraded from 1.30.4 to 1.32.2 to take advantage of H264 passthrough for IP cameras. When viewing live stream either by each camera or montage, it takes a few seconds to display live stream. In the log, we get the following(FIRST ERROR) 3-4 times per camera: "Socket /var/run/zm/zms-063049s.sock ...