How to speed up ZoneMinder Live CD.

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:42 am

I have finally on my friends system gotten ZoneMinderLive CD working. But it would not work at my work I had to get it working on RH EL 3. Which it's working fine.

Now here I am using the LiveCD. I am using Celeron D 2.6 512MG Ram 400mhz speed. with a EIDE 7200RPM 160gig hard drive. I have setup 6 Dlink DCS-900 cams on the system. There working fine. But it's very slow in loading the web and when I make any updates it takes for ever to save. I am only using in it in Monitor mode.

The Cams are set to 320X240 24 Bit Color. With only max of 10 fps.

The same setup is at work but With RHEL 3 I have 7 Dlink cams same setting but it's a PIII 1gig system with 256mg RAM. 80gig EIDE hard drive. This slower system it runs at least 4 times faster then the LiveCD. Is there anything I need to know in how to get it to work faster?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:53 am

if you have got 10 fps on 7 cams thats a lot of fps. Is your p3 @ work doing less fps. Whats its ave load?
I have noticed the more events you have the longer the console takes to come up. I also run a celeron 2.4 Ghz (clocked to 3.2Ghz) and 9 cams on my current test rig. My load ave is about 0.4 but i have problems with montage chewing resources. Anyway first up try dropping your fps to say 2 or 3 per camera.

James

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:31 pm

Both are set the same way. I have changed it to 5 fps but it's not much faster and now it's really not looking real time.

My load is around 5.2 to 7.3

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:50 pm

christ thats high on the load what else you doing with it? If your load is that high it will probably have to drop frames. If you stop zoneminder whats you load like then?

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:43 pm

jameswilson wrote:christ thats high on the load what else you doing with it? If your load is that high it will probably have to drop frames. If you stop zoneminder whats you load like then?

It's just the basic setup from the liveCD. I have not done anthing else to the system. I will need to get on the system and check the load without zone minder. But I know that If I turn off camera's it goes down. I have only had it to under 1 with 2 camera's.

Ariel.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:48 am

well bad news i have a 750Mhz old athlon with 6 cams on it that averages 0.7 load at half res

jfm · Post by **jfm** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:41 pm

On my livecd the user "apache" runs the zma ond zmc comands which takes up the most cpu. Is there eny difference regarding user running those commands on your RHEL 3 system?

Post by **cordel** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:26 am

Lower your FPS on the cameras. That should help your load. Example - If you have 2 cameras both running at >= 20 FPS then the macine is trying to caputure and analize >=40 FPS. Analisis of each frame is quite a job and where you'll find a good deal of your load. There are of course many variables that go into this like B/W Vs. Color, image size (larger images give higher loads), etc...
Regards,
Cordel