Events > 32k and ZM stops

pchan · Post by **pchan** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:22 pm

Whenever the # of event reaches ~32k, ZM stops recording. Since column ID is a unsigned INT, it should be able to reach 4294967295.

Any idea why this could be? With sunlight and shadows, I can reach 32k events in a 6 weeks though my disk is only 40% full. I'd like to be able to retain more events.

As soon as I delete some events, modetect starts working again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:16 pm

This is a limitation of the ext3 filesystemt in that one directory cannot hold more than 32k files. Future versions of ZM will have a deeper filesystem but for now you have to reduce the number of events or use a different filesystems such as reiserfs. If you search for ext3 or reiserfs you will find other threads on this issue.