Requirements

[Smack2k]

New to Zone Minder...

Setting up a system with 4 IP POE Cameras with these Video Specs

Compression:H.265;H.264;H.264H;H.264B;MJPEG Frame Rate;Main Stream
3M(1~20fps)/1080P/720P(1 ~ 25/30fps)
Sub Stream;D1/CIF(1 ~ 25/30fps)
Bit Rate：H.265: 32K ~ 4156Kbps

What kind of hardware requirements (CPU / RAM / etc) would be suggested to run this?

Would this work - Core i5 (I5-3210M) /16 GB RAM?

If more information is needed, please let me know and i Can provide it!

[kitkat]

At a guess, I'd say that it very probably will.

I'm running two 1920 x 1080 monitors at 5 fps to 10 fps (it varies with light levels) and a total of 13 zones on a Core2Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and the system load generally hovers between 0.1 and 0.5, although it does go higher sometimes, and /dev/shm is usually 50% full.

[Smack2k]

Thanks for the information,,,,like I said, just getting into ZoneMinder so really appreciate it!

[iconnor]

Just want to put this out there, a lot of people start freaking out if their load is > 0. Load is just a measure of how many processes are waiting to be serviced. It doesn't tell you whether they are being serviced fast enough or not.

I have several servers that run a load of 10 or more and all the cameras are being read from, analyzed and written to disk fast enough.

Some tools like htop will do a good job of showing just how busy your processors are. I like to keep mine around 50% under peak load.

[Smack2k]

Thanks for that tip....will check out htop....

[Smack2k]

You were talking about people being upset when their load >0. I hooked up my Core i5-3210M with 16 GB RAM. With just the system hooked up, I go to the http page and the load goes around .01 to .18. I know you said >0 so just wanted to ask if that is anything to be concerned with?

[CountyLine]

No.

I'm pretty sure that was his way of saying some users are much too concerned about load numbers.