ZoneMinder and multicore

zoned · Post by **zoned** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:29 am

I almost returned my WVC80N because of the erratic and unusable software, but since I do like the minimal wires, I remembered zoneminder and wondered if I could get the camera talking to it and capturing motion detection.

Works great! Since I've noticed it is maxing out the single vCPU, I'm wondering if I can simply add another virtual core, or will I have create a new virtual server, reinstall debian + zm.

I'd appreciate your thoughts, and of course I am going to try it out and see what happens.

zoned · Post by **zoned** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:56 am

Ok, that was too easy. It was as simple as shutting down the server, adding another vCPU in XenServer, boot back up. I watched the resources while recording and play back, performance is much better, no longer 95% CPU

ZoneMinder rocks so far. Now to figure out email notification...