Hello,
I have been running BI (registered, please note) for several months now. At some point, doing regular updates, CPU usage became very high. I have updated BI several times since hoping the problem would be solved. To no avail apparently.
During that same time, I also upgraded my cams, going from 3 low res analog cams to 9 HD analog cameras, 8 of them on a Lorex DVR + an IP based HD Foscam.
All the while, CPU usage has been thru the roof, 100% 24/7.
I perused the forum, saw many posts about this with suggestions to improve the performance. Applied most of these suggestions, even though some were disabling features I needed like overlay. Made sure I was using BI .bvr format with "direct to disk" with no re-encoding. Etc... Basically no results. Still 100% CPU usage.
So I started more basic troubleshooting and here are the results:
BI runs in a VM so I need to use RDP to connect to it. RPD uses less than 5% CPU on average with peaks to 10%. The CPU usage figures below includes RDP. BI is running as a service. And the CPU usages below includes also BI Admin running.
- All (9) cams enabled: CPU 100%
- 7 cams disabled, 2 cams up: CPU down to 95%
- all but 1 cam disabled: CPU down to 90%
- all cams disabled: CPU down to 55% to 60%
- BlueIris admin stopped: CPU down to 55% to 60%
- BlueIris service stopped: CPU idle 0 to 3%
- Restart BlueIris service: CPU back up to 50%
- BlueIsis admin restarted: CPU up to 55% to 65%
- Disabled the web server: No changes
I also use a home automation software called HomeSeer for which I have a BlueIris plugin that gives me cams status in the software. Even with that disabled, CPU usage does not change.
Can someone explain why, with no cameras enabled, no web server enabled or other CPU intensive features enabled, basically doing nothing in my book, BI is using 50% to 65% CPU????
Some info on what BI is running on. It's not like I'm running this on a cheap PC:
- Host is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server, 2 CPUs, 4 cores Xeon x5460 3.2 GHz, 32 gigs RAM, 6 Cheetah 15K SAS 146Gigs 15000 RPM drives in RAID 5. It's running VMware vSphere 6. There are 4 VMs running on it, 3 of them tiny, not resources hungry. The only one that needs some power is the BlueIris one.
- BlueIris VM has 4 vCPUs (cores), 4 gigs RAM (40% used), 40 gigs HD space (75% used), running Windows 2012 R2 Standard server. BI is the ONLY software installed on top of the OS.
- BI current version: 4.6.1.2 x64
I've thrown the 8 cores available on the host to the VM and shut down all other (3) VMs. With cams enabled, no change on CPU usage, roofed to 100%.
I'm at a loss to figure out what's happening. With no cams enabled, this thing should be idling. I hope someone can offer some insight into this.
I have been running BI (registered, please note) for several months now. At some point, doing regular updates, CPU usage became very high. I have updated BI several times since hoping the problem would be solved. To no avail apparently.
During that same time, I also upgraded my cams, going from 3 low res analog cams to 9 HD analog cameras, 8 of them on a Lorex DVR + an IP based HD Foscam.
All the while, CPU usage has been thru the roof, 100% 24/7.
I perused the forum, saw many posts about this with suggestions to improve the performance. Applied most of these suggestions, even though some were disabling features I needed like overlay. Made sure I was using BI .bvr format with "direct to disk" with no re-encoding. Etc... Basically no results. Still 100% CPU usage.
So I started more basic troubleshooting and here are the results:
BI runs in a VM so I need to use RDP to connect to it. RPD uses less than 5% CPU on average with peaks to 10%. The CPU usage figures below includes RDP. BI is running as a service. And the CPU usages below includes also BI Admin running.
- All (9) cams enabled: CPU 100%
- 7 cams disabled, 2 cams up: CPU down to 95%
- all but 1 cam disabled: CPU down to 90%
- all cams disabled: CPU down to 55% to 60%
- BlueIris admin stopped: CPU down to 55% to 60%
- BlueIris service stopped: CPU idle 0 to 3%
- Restart BlueIris service: CPU back up to 50%
- BlueIsis admin restarted: CPU up to 55% to 65%
- Disabled the web server: No changes
I also use a home automation software called HomeSeer for which I have a BlueIris plugin that gives me cams status in the software. Even with that disabled, CPU usage does not change.
Can someone explain why, with no cameras enabled, no web server enabled or other CPU intensive features enabled, basically doing nothing in my book, BI is using 50% to 65% CPU????
Some info on what BI is running on. It's not like I'm running this on a cheap PC:
- Host is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server, 2 CPUs, 4 cores Xeon x5460 3.2 GHz, 32 gigs RAM, 6 Cheetah 15K SAS 146Gigs 15000 RPM drives in RAID 5. It's running VMware vSphere 6. There are 4 VMs running on it, 3 of them tiny, not resources hungry. The only one that needs some power is the BlueIris one.
- BlueIris VM has 4 vCPUs (cores), 4 gigs RAM (40% used), 40 gigs HD space (75% used), running Windows 2012 R2 Standard server. BI is the ONLY software installed on top of the OS.
- BI current version: 4.6.1.2 x64
I've thrown the 8 cores available on the host to the VM and shut down all other (3) VMs. With cams enabled, no change on CPU usage, roofed to 100%.
I'm at a loss to figure out what's happening. With no cams enabled, this thing should be idling. I hope someone can offer some insight into this.