High CPU Useage on 22 Camera build system

[fenderman]

issues with large iframes are more noticeable with direct to disc..that is why its recommended.

 

[phillip da]

My computer is a Intel i7 4770 3.40GHz CPU with 16GB or ram running Windows Server 2012. A SSD with and Sata 1 Gig hard drive, running Blue Iris

I eventually plan to run 5 hikvision cameras and one Foscam Camera at the highest resolution possible.

 

[phillip da]

Having Direct to Mode set, does this mean the footage is contantly being recorded to the hard drive or does it only record when motion is detected with this feature set?

 

[fenderman]

That system will be able to handle that no problem (the ram is way overkill and will never be used)..direct to disc has nothing to do with motion or constant recording..it can be used with either...it just means that the stream is not re-encoded as it is with the regular settings...since its not re-encoded you cannot overlay text or rotate the camera image.

 

[aaronwt]

My computer is a Intel i7 4770 3.40GHz CPU with 16GB or ram running Windows Server 2012. A SSD with and Sata 1 Gig hard drive, running Blue Iris

I eventually plan to run 5 hikvision cameras and one Foscam Camera at the highest resolution possible.

I am currently run four 3MP Hikvision cameras and ten other cameras under 1MP. My core i5 running at 3.1 Ghz has no problem with me running them in motion detection mode. I have two more 3MP Hikvision cameras on order and hopefully I can get a few more this spring. My plan is to eventually replace all my lower resolution cameras. I run my Hikvisions at full 2048 × 1536 resolution and up to the max of 20fps. But I have BI4 set to auto adjust the framerate.

 

[Frank Ecker]

As a reference point... I am running a rather old 4-core Core i5 750 @ 2.76 GHz and with 8 streams from a BlueCherry card I was steady state at 60% CPU utilization without DTD. I didn't like the slugishness and saw this thread so I decided to pick a few cameras and go with DTD.

Moving one of eight to DTD dropped my utilization from 60% down to 40%. Great improvement.
Second camera getting set to DTD didn't provide quite the same bang for the buck dropping down to 35%.
Third camera going to DTD didn't have much impact at all.

I'll monitor and play around with the settings while monitoring the system. It is NOT behaving linearly for me but maybe that is to expected.

Somewhat related, I am using Anturis as a system monitor for a remote system and it seems to work well with a plan for 5 monitors for their free plan. If you want anything more than a ping monitor you need to install a client app on your BI system. I monitor web connects, disk temperature and CPU usage.

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

DTD made zero difference on my 13-camera system (PowerEdge R710 dual 6-core X5675 processors). I still hover around 75% CPU utilization. Even worse if I use BI as a service and then run the front-end periodically to see what is going on. Makes the system incredibly sluggish.

 

[fenderman]

DTD made zero difference on my 13-camera system (PowerEdge R710 dual 6-core X5675 processors). I still hover around 75% CPU utilization. Even worse if I use BI as a service and then run the front-end periodically to see what is going on. Makes the system incredibly sluggish.

That is impossible..you are doing something wrong..are you runnning the demo? are you logging in remotely? D2D doesnt work on the demo. You need to set direct to disk for EACH camera. regardless as mentioned many times, those 6 year old xeons are a terrible choice for blue iris.

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

No, I have a licensed copy, and am set for each camera. Its what I have available at the moment until I can get an MD1200 enclosure for my drives (6x6TB) and a machine with a newer processor.

 

[fenderman]

No, I have a licensed copy, and am set for each camera. Its what I have available at the moment until I can get an MD1200 enclosure for my drives (6x6TB) and a machine with a newer processor.

What cameras and what resolution...this doesnt make sense...double check EACH camera..ive had users swear up and down then notice a few cams not set to d2d..
are you logging in remotely?

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

most definitely have double checked each camera, everything is set to D2D. I also tried disabling the BI motion detection and using the on-camera motion detection with no noticeable decrease in CPU utilization (may have dropped a couple of points, that's about it.) I have all 4mp hikvision bullets.

 

[fenderman]

most definitely have double checked each camera, everything is set to D2D. I also tried disabling the BI motion detection and using the on-camera motion detection with no noticeable decrease in CPU utilization (may have dropped a couple of points, that's about it.) I have all 4mp hikvision bullets.

Are you logging in remotely? How?

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

No, I'm connected directly to the server. It sits in my basement and I have a 43 inch 4K TV in my office I feed the video to via a 35' HDMI cable. I ran a 30' USB extension cable at the same time and use a wireless mouse and keyboard w/ the dongle-thingy connected at the office-end of the USB cable. No need to remote in, unless I'm not home for some reason, but that's usually pointless since the video lag is just not worth it.

 

[fenderman]

No, I'm connected directly to the server. It sits in my basement and I have a 43 inch 4K TV in my office I feed the video to via a 35' HDMI cable. I ran a 30' USB extension cable at the same time and use a wireless mouse and keyboard w/ the dongle-thingy connected at the office-end of the USB cable. No need to remote in, unless I'm not home for some reason, but that's usually pointless since the video lag is just not worth it.

Then it's the old Xeon... There are many threads with folks who have performance issues with these.....

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

I've been looking on eBay for a reasonably-priced MD1200 enclosure I can move my 6 drives to, but, nothing yet.

Alternative may be to use a MD1000 enclosure. Its only a 3GB SAS enclosure, but with a 3gb<->6gb cable and a PERC H800, I can make it work.

 

[fenderman]

I've been looking on eBay for a reasonably-priced MD1200 enclosure I can move my 6 drives to, but, nothing yet.

Alternative may be to use a MD1000 enclosure. Its only a 3GB SAS enclosure, but with a 3gb<->6gb cable and a PERC H800, I can make it work.

How much storage do you have? how large is each drive..

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

6 6TB drives, RAID 5

 

[fenderman]

6 6TB drives, RAID 5

Do you have a special need? seems overkill..
i think the precision line can hold 4 3.5" drives..

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

Yes, we use the NAS for backup of the other computer systems - my alienware 18 alone has 9tb of storage (2x4TB SSD + 1 1TB mSATA SSD). My wife's Precision laptop has 4TB (2x2TB). We deal with some extremely large datasets.

 

[Tolting Colt Acres]

I shopped around today. I can get a GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 motherboard with a i7-7700k and case for about $600. Any thoughts before I pull the trigger?