5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

jaydeel

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Anyone know what .17 brings us?
I think this “News item” status message may be new. I think Ken has stopped using MailChimp to notify users of Webinars, etc. This appears to be an alternative.
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Also, memory management seems to be improved. My usage has dropped since installing.

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Also, memory management seems to be improved. My usage has dropped since installing.

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Maybe a stupid question, but how did you get this graph? Is this something in BI that I have not found or is this external?

Also (to avoid two posts), I see Ken pushed out ..9.18, any idea what was in that one?
 

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how did you get this graph? Is this something in BI that I have not found or is this external?
It’s a custom chart made using the Google Charts API <link>. I log the memory usage data every 10 minutes to a CSV file, which I process using a custom PHP script.

You could reproduce this using Excel or Google Sheets and the logging method described in this post.

I see Ken pushed out ..9.18, any idea what was in that one?
Not yet. This time I forgot to create a registry change snapshot before updating.

To “discover” changes I use this NirSoft utility <RegistryChangesView> and the following steps:

1) Before updating or changing my Blue Iris version / configuration...
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2) After...
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3) The result is a list of all Windows registry changes between steps 1 & 2, including Blue Iris settings.
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BTW, my memory usage appears to have reverted back to its previous level after updating to .18.
I updated around 4:30 pm yesterday and took this screenshot around 11 pm. It's still holding at this level currently.


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I've noticed a pattern with memory utilization. It will spike up to ~4.75GB the first day or so, then drop back to around 2.75GB and finally settle in at around 3GB with each new update, at least the last thee or four updates.
 

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I haven't noticed a significant pattern until the last 2 updates.
Perhaps its less noticeable for me because my utilization is quite a bit lower than yours.
 

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I see Ken pushed out ..9.18, any idea what was in that one?
Here's one... from a screenshot of the bottom left of the Blue Iris Status>Log tab...

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This field is now directly editable... previously the only way to edit it was via its Windows registry setting.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Options\LogPath

The screenshot shows my preference. I use a weekly rollover %Y%W.txt instead of the default monthly rollover %Y%m.txt. I find this keeps the logfile at a more manageable size. Mine is currently maxing out at 130,000 to 160,000 lines.

The Blue Iris logfile can easily exceed over million lines in length if you don't keep it under control. Huge logfiles are painful to manually inspect.

Furthermore, I prefer the smaller files for my scripts that pull data from the logfile (like the one I use to chart and track DeepStack processing times).
 
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