(SOLVED) Blue iris running on single E5-2630 v3 Ideas

dave2500

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Hello,
Currently i am running blue iris on a older i3 which is not working well at all. i keep running around 90% when using the web GUI

So far i am only running 4- 6mp cameras on constant record
I am doing direct encoding to disk

This is a tower server that i just got off lease from work, its primary job will NOT be blue iris but i would love to beable to virtualize it and save some money on electric.
I know that this Xeon does not do quick sync but should it work for blue iris relatively well?

(server specs.
E5-2630v3 (only 1 cpu installed)
128gb ram
8*8tb drives
2x750watt psu)
 

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Hello,
Currently i am running blue iris on a older i3 which is not working well at all. i keep running around 90% when using the web GUI

So far i am only running 4- 6mp cameras on constant record
I am doing direct encoding to disk

This is a tower server that i just got off lease from work, its primary job will NOT be blue iris but i would love to beable to virtualize it and save some money on electric.
I know that this Xeon does not do quick sync but should it work for blue iris relatively well?

(server specs.
E5-2630v3 (only 1 cpu installed)
128gb ram
8*8tb drives
2x750watt psu)
There is something else going on here even with no quick sync you should not be that high are you running the demo? What are your frame rates?
 

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Are you running wifi or hardwired,
Make and model numbers of cameras.

screen shots.
1) windows task manager process tab sorted by memory (most at the top),
2) windows task manager preformance, GPU
3) Blue Iris Setting about tab
4) Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph) clip storage
5) blue Iris status cameras
6) on two of the camera properities the record tab.
7) on the actual camera, (not BI) the video configuration screen, (frame rate,iframe, encodeing, quality,bit rate....)
 

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(hard wired connection to the switch)
1-DH-IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA
1-IPC-T2431T-AS
1- pretty sure (IPC-B5442T-ASE )

please let me know if anything else helps,
Thank you everyoneBLueIris Overview.jpgBlue Iris  task manager performance.pngblue iris prop Gurage cam.pngBlue Iris sorted GPU.pngBlueIris camera list.pngBLueIris Overview.jpgBlueIris side of house prop.pngBLueIris Storage.pngBlueIris Task Manager Memory.pngcamera page 20.pngOrigional page 168.png
 

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For a start in the cameras, set the frame rate and the Iframe on your to 15. Set bit rate to VBR. Turn off the substream unless you are really using it.

I do not understand some of your data. The cameras indicate the frame rate and I frame are the same, for the BI cameras status page does not indicate that ?

Most likely not important for this problem but set the combine or cut video to 1 hour.

Is the network traffic from the cameras to the BI PC running through the router ?
Is the E drive an internal drive or a an external drive ?
Was this a clean windows 10 install ?
Are you running a VM on the BI PC ?

Make the above requested changes , reboot the BI PC, wait 1 hour and repost new screen shots.

The passmark CPU rating for the E5-2630 s OK for such a small load. something is miss configured.
 
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I agree with others that there is likely a configuration issue in BI that is running on the i3, but I have a HP Z420 with a Xeon E5-2960 V2 with 64 GB RAM that I run 15 cameras one as well as 2 VM's running in VMware Workstation for pfSense and Home Assistant. In addition to this, I am also running AI Tool and DeepStack for local AI. I am usually running around 50% CPU on idle and the CPU usage spikes to about 80-85% temporarily when there is human activity detected which triggers alerts. I believe that the Xeon E5-2960 V3 will easily run your cams with minimal CPU usage. Just wanted to share this.
 

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I agree with @pmcross that the Xeon would be easily able to handle your load and run circles around an i3 despite the lack of QuickSync, if it came down to it. 4x the cores/threads and a quad-channel memory controller, hands-down win. I've done experiments where I disable QuickSync on my Core i9 to see what the impact is in CPU usage on a 1700MP/sec workload, and it's under 10% increase in CPU when the i9 reverts to pure CPU, so it's not a radical boost on mine.

Looking at your i3 situation, however, where it should hold the aces is power efficiency. Can you check in your Blue Iris Settings > Other and make sure your Scaling is set to Fast, if you haven't done that already? The Bilinear and Bicubic modes look prettier but they do cost substantial CPU when the console is open.

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Just incase anyone else has this problem,
The whole thing turned out to be for some reason sophos endpoint was causing all of these problems
As soon as it was uninstalled everything else fell into line

Thank you for all the help
-Dave
 
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