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I'd like to hear about other ZM setups

Cameras:
1) How many camera's
2) Type of Cameras ie. USB/cctv
3) How many capture ports
4) Type of Capture board

System:
1) Computer Configuration - CPU/Disk/Video card/Memory
2) OS/Kernel version
3) ZoneMinder Version
4) Uptime/stability issues

Other:
1) Other relevant equipment
2) Other Comments

1) one.
2) USB. Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
3) N/A
4) N/A

1) Celeron 550 FCPGA on a slot 1 converter card plugged into an Asus P2L97 MB (440LX Chipset). 384 Megs of ram, 9 megs free. 40 gig hd, 4.7 gigs currently used (only 15 events currently saved to disk). Video card is generic.
While idle my cpu stats are:
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 82.5% 0.0% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
4198 apache 25 0 96424 92M 91192 R 50.2 24.6 364:19 0 zmc
4231 apache 25 0 99452 97M 91264 R 48.7 25.8 358:03 0 zma


2) Fedora Core 1
3) 1.17.2
4) uptime is currently at 31 days. Stability is solid.

1) None
2) My camera is set to 640x480 at 24 bit color. runlevel is set to 3 (no x windows). I would prefer to run the camera at a lower color bit level, but the drivers currently do not permit this.

I've tried a couple other cameras w/o success. One was an old US Robotics Big Picture camera that came with its' own bttv capture card (bt848kpf chip). I could get it to work with xawtv, but not with zone minder, and the other was a usb Intel web cam model CS340 that introduced WAY too much noise when things got too dark. I should note that I was able to get the Big Picture camera to work with a different (and crappier) program, but eventually the sensor in the camera got fried from looking at too much daylight (It wasn't looking directly at the sun either).