CPU and Settings

[terraranger]

Hey folks.
New to cams and bought 3 Hikvision cams. 2 DS2CD2T42WDI and a DS2CD2142FWD.
Setup BI on a NUC, i5-6260U, samsung 950 M.2 and 16gb ram. Targets for storage are a local NAS piping through a Unifi 16 port switch.
The NUC regularly stays at +80% CPU and I cannot figure out why. Is the machine just not beefy enough? Have not done a lot of customization of the cam settings other than enabling h264+, WDR, and auto IR (at the camera, not in BI).
What should I look into or is this just a question of insufficient hardware?

***EDIT
It may be pertinent to add that all footage is writing to the NAS, DS1515+, and not local.

 

[fenderman]

Hey folks.
New to cams and bought 3 Hikvision cams. 2 DS2CD2T42WDI and a DS2CD2142FWD.
Setup BI on a NUC, i5-6260U, samsung 950 M.2 and 16gb ram. Targets for storage are a local NAS piping through a Unifi 16 port switch.
The NUC regularly stays at +80% CPU and I cannot figure out why. Is the machine just not beefy enough? Have not done a lot of customization of the cam settings other than enabling h264+, WDR, and auto IR (at the camera, not in BI).
What should I look into or is this just a question of insufficient hardware?

***EDIT
It may be pertinent to add that all footage is writing to the NAS, DS1515+, and not local.

Have you enabled direct to disk recording? this must be set in blue iris for each camera. It will NOT work in demo mode. Are you running the demo?
Have you enabled hardware acceleration?
H.264+ is hikvision specific and is not supported by BI, set it to h.264.

 

[terraranger]

Have you enabled direct to disk recording? this must be set in blue iris for each camera. It will NOT work in demo mode. Are you running the demo?
Have you enabled hardware acceleration?
H.264+ is hikvision specific and is not supported by BI, set it to h.264.

Direct to disk recording is enabled now.
I have now turned off H.264+.
For troubleshooting purposes, I have disabled all cameras, except one.
CPU is still at 60~80% and ram usage is nominal.
Purchased the fully licensed version of BI so not in demo mode; unless that has to be turned off elsewhere?

Here are the video settings on the camera currently:

And here are the settings in BI for the same camera:

 

[Q™]

What CPU is in your machine?

Lower your frame rate...I know you want fluid motion, but fluid motion isn't really that important unless your operating in a contractual environment and are required to run high FPS (such as a casino).

Raise your BI Receive Buffer to 20.0mb.

Your Frame Rate interval should match your frame rate.

Change your Video Quality to the highest setting available.

It's probably OK to drop your Maximum Bitrate down to 4096.

Again,. what CPU is in your machine?

 

[terraranger]

Intel NUC NUC6i5SYH
i5-6260U
Samsung 950 M.2 and 16gb ram
DS1515+ over network with a Unifi 16-150

 

[Q™]

Thanks. That processor benchmarks at 4,284 which is a tad weak. In addition, I don't believe that includes Intel embedded HD graphics which Blue Iris can utilize to lower CPU load. If your not going to upgrade your processor or machine to more current model 15 or i7 then your best course of action, in my semi-ignorant opinion, is to lower your frame rate and run direct-to-dist setting on all of your cameras. I run twenty-one 2MP, 3MP, 4MP and 5MP cameras on an 3.4ghz i7-3770 IvyBridge ShitBox and my average frame rate is 5 or 6 FPS. My CPU usage has been running at approximately 50% during the day when motion is detected on a few of the cameras. When many of the camera are recording CPU usage spikes much higher. During the evening, when all is dark and quiet, CPU usage hovers around 20%.

IMO, YMMV, $.02

 

[terraranger]

Thanks. That processor benchmarks at 4,284 which is a tad weak. In addition, I don't believe that includes Intel embedded HD graphics which Blue Iris can utilize to lower CPU load...

Just as a follow up, it does have "Intel® Iris™ graphics 540"
And thank you very much for the info. Going to make some changes and will report back.

 

[fenderman]

Something is wrong... one cam won't use that much cpu...are you logging in via a remote viewing app?

 

[terraranger]

Something is wrong... one cam won't use that much cpu...are you logging in via a remote viewing app?

Right now, I am remote into the machine using rAdmin reporting the resource stats. I can pull the resource stats without having remote view as well and the numbers don't change.

 

[Q™]

Something is wrong... one cam won't use that much cpu...are you logging in via a remote viewing app?

I though he wrote he was running three (3) Hi-res cameras at a high frame rate?

 

[terraranger]

I though he wrote he was running three (3) Hi-res cameras at a high frame rate?

Currently, for troubleshooting, I have turned off all but one camera.

 

[fenderman]

Right now, I am remote into the machine using rAdmin reporting the resource stats. I can pull the resource stats without having remote view as well and the numbers don't change.

Disable all remote viewing and hook it up to a monitor.

 

[terraranger]

UPDATE:
Made all the changes Q2U suggested and CPU is now hovering at ~33%.
Going to enable a second camera and make the same changes to it.

UPDATE2:
Changes Q2U suggested made to second camera and CPU is now hovering at ~38%.

UPDATE3:
All cams are enabled and have now had the changes recommended, applied to them CPU usage is holding at ~40% and that is with me viewing BI interface over rAdmin

 

[Q™]

Disable all remote viewing and hook it up to a monitor.

Try what @fenderman suggested also.