Help with shared memory
Help with shared memory
I apologize in advance I have tried to track down this information in a way I can understand but I guess I'm just not getting it. I have a machine with 2 gigs of ram, I am going to go to 4 gigs so I can increase the buffers in ZM. I'm running FC4, could someone tell me what the values should be for shared memory? 134217728 is 256MB correct? I want somethingl like 3.5 gig?? no ?? TIA
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jameswilson
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No as i understand shared mem that long figure is in Bytes so you can work it out but it isnt 256meg.
Im not sure that setting your shared mem that high is a great idea. i cant see nay reason why you would need your shared mem that high unless your doing something very wierd
Im not sure that setting your shared mem that high is a great idea. i cant see nay reason why you would need your shared mem that high unless your doing something very wierd
James Wilson
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Disclaimer: The above is pure theory and may work on a good day with the wind behind it. etc etc.
http://www.securitywarehouse.co.uk
Hi Blaxer
The string you have printed looks to be around 128Megs of shared memory, i have a nasty habbet of dedicating about half of the physical memory to shared memory, since (from what i understand) ZM will use the shared memory to handle pics, so the more cams you have attached to your ZM box and the higher the resolution these cams are running = more shared mem needed.
If iam not mistaken then a better explaination is on the WiKi try looking there.
The string you have printed looks to be around 128Megs of shared memory, i have a nasty habbet of dedicating about half of the physical memory to shared memory, since (from what i understand) ZM will use the shared memory to handle pics, so the more cams you have attached to your ZM box and the higher the resolution these cams are running = more shared mem needed.
If iam not mistaken then a better explaination is on the WiKi try looking there.
Best Regards
Tom Stage
Tom Stage
Thanks for the help thus far, I have read the wikki a few times now and reading through these I'm a little more comfortable. Half of the physical RAM is a good yardstick. If I set my shared memory to half the physical RAM and I still get errors what then? More RAM? Faster machine? It's a core 2 2.x ghz 4gb of ram. I have 15 cameras, 11 are 320x240 and 4 are 640x480. I tend to increase the buffers on all of them as much as I can because they tend to not get pre or post event frames unless I do. Any thoughts are greatly apprciated.