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I was wondering if anyone has experience with running a low power atom system for only 2 IP cameras?

Would an atom N270 (single core 1.6Ghz) cope with 2 IP cameras, motion detection, 640x480, 5-10fps?
(2GBs ram, decent HDD, el cheapo foscams)

I understand Zoneminder is a small footprint but I am not sure if the 2 streams with motion detection would start to saturate the fairly small CPU given the overhead of IP cameras.

Hi,

I'm using a Guruplug Server Plus to do this with 3 IPcams. In my system, with cheap IPcams like Foscam or Maygion, the resolution is 320x240, good enough for them, as the 640x480 it's too noisy. I'm capturing 1.5fps/5fps when alarmed, because after some testing I decided that 5fps is good enough to have a video. The system is working 24x7x365 in modect mode, booting from a esata drive where the events are also stored.
I also have bought another small toy to give it a try, it's the CuBox (www.solid-run.com). Not still in my hands, so no feedback is possible yet.

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

The atom has SSSE3 and is one of the targets i tried to focus on in my patch.
See here: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... =9&t=17652

mastertheknife