ZoneMinder Forums

OK- brand new member here seriously considering ZM.

My current install is MotioneyeOS on Raspberry pi. I'm using 2 SV3C dome cameras and performance sucks. I'm missing motion events and flat just done with Motioneye. Don't get me wrong- great work there, its just not working my application.

What is the preferred CPU for ZM? are you guys using a single board computer to do this?? I'm looking for decent performance and I believe that my expectations are reasonable with regard to image etc.

I run it in a VM.

5 cameras, but fairly low resolution - 640x480. All running in modect (motion detection) at between 5-10fps.
If you have higher resolution - you may need more horsepower, but there is no reason why you can't piggyback ZM on the back of an existing server in a VM.

Here are my VM specs and system load (running on Virtualbox - which is free).

top - 10:45:18 up 15 days, 13:59, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.50, 0.68
Tasks: 103 total, 3 running, 100 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 23.2 us, 1.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 73.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 2.1 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 2058568 total, 1976940 used, 81628 free, 263300 buffers
KiB Swap: 524284 total, 38964 used, 485320 free. 1130368 cached Mem

lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 60
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 3200.295
BogoMIPS: 6400.59
Hypervisor vendor: Oracle
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 6144K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0