filters and audit

tommy · Post by **tommy** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:05 pm

I've set up a filter to delete the latest event from a particular camera when my disk usage hits 95%. It seems that the audit job only runs every 900 seconds. This means that although I have deleted an event, my disk usage may remain at 95% for up to 15 minutes. In the meantime, the filter may flag yet another event for delettion since the disk usage is still at 95%. Am I not losing events unnecessarily?
I've tried unchecking the fast delete option but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:51 pm

Hi,

You can reduce the zmaudit delay. It is passed into zmaudit from zmpkg.pl and can be anything, though I would not recommend making it too small.

I doubt you are losing too many events unnecessarily though, you will probably permanently have only a couple deleted ahead of time and they would generally have been the next ones to go anyway.

Phil,

tommy · Post by **tommy** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:55 am

Thanks Phil. I misunderstood the fast delete option. I thought the "slow" delete would delete the events from the actual events directory. I now see it just does a complete delete from all the tables in the db. I know, I know, RTFM. But sometimes you read and just don't see it.
thanks for the replay
tommy