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Need some help. Have a PC with 4GB ram/ 32 bit on it with ubuntu 12.04 server, and had zm on it, one cam, foscam 8918w, and it worked great. I had to re build the pc, so i used another one i had, 64 bit/8gb ram and fresh install of ubuntu 12.04. Got the cam to work, and the PTZ controls, but i noticed that sometimes i wouldn't be able to log into my server via ssh, or access a website i have on it. Then other pcs on the same Ethernet switch would time out when going to web pages. So for the heck of it, i unplugged the Ethernet to my new server i built. Everything appeared to work again. Nagios sent me alerts of CPU usage at 8% + during that duration. So i stopped zoneminder. Tried it again a few days later, and same thing happened again. my whole wifi network was sluggish. so for now i un-installed it. wasnt sure if this is a common issue with the 64 bit version and the version available via apt-get, 1.26.5.

i know the first time this happened, i looked at my syslogs and nothing seemed out of the norm, just showed the normal stuff, fps entries, and the usual zm entries.

i really like using zm, and would like to figure out whats going on. For the heck of it, i installed it on my virtual pc i have, that runs ubuntu 12.04 too, and no issues. was wondering if somebody can recommend on what to check or have any suggestions. i tried to google this but nothing came up.

Thanks!

Try installing wireshark, its a network montoring tool. You should then be able to see where all the network traffic is comming from.

You could be getting continuous alarms. Such as the sun glistening on snow, etc. The new zone minder is more sensitive by default. I had similar slowdowns until I discovered this.

Open your camera settings, and set Reference Image Blend % to 6.25. Do the same for Alarm Reference Image blend.

Also check your events to see if this is what is happening.