More info, the original card I inserted was a GeForce 9500 GT, I found a
GeForce GT 640 (OEM) in my card
stash. I put that card in and noticed that the peaks dropped down to the
40+% and the valleys are up in the
30's. The grass is not so high but the area below about 45% is solid no
dead spaces,
I have a slot for another GPU, see if I can find another one out there to
stick in it, saw a comment that if there
was space for more than one, that would drop the CPU load even more.
The H264 and H265 cameras do not use a lot of BW for sending video but the
down side is you need a lot of
Thanks for sharing the experience Chuck,
Awesome result.
-Tomas
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 17:55 Chuck Hast wrote:
> I found a GeForce 9500 GT in my card pile, I looked it up, it appeared that
> it would work. Put it in and then
> loaded the Nvidia drivers and tools, as soon as it did that I saw
I found a GeForce 9500 GT in my card pile, I looked it up, it appeared that
it would work. Put it in and then
loaded the Nvidia drivers and tools, as soon as it did that I saw the total
CPU load from from 70-90% down
to 25% with peaks at 70% but they are spaced out. Before looking at the CPU
Tomas,
THANK YOU!! I was trying to figure that out. The server is headless but I
can put two PCI cards (short cards)
in two PCI slots, as I figure it still needs to process the video for
storage to the db and also when it is sent to
a browser or app which has linked to the server. It seemed like
Chuck,
I do not know much about ZoneMinder, but its video processing is done using
ffmpeg.
ffmpeg can be (is) accelerated using graphics card. I'd imagine that you
might not even need to compile your own to enable it.
I would recommend checking that out.
Tomas
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 12:46
If you use any variant of Ubuntu there is a setup script that you run, it
gets a ZM system up and running, then
starts the good part, adding the cameras. I have a collection of different
ones so they are almost all different
but once setup it runs great.
These newer H264 and H265 cameras do not
"I installed ZoneMinder, it was quite easy"Zoneminder is the best a/v
security setup I know of, but I've never heard anyone refer to setting it
up as easy. I hope to learn it someday.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:49 AM Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks
> I got the beast running, I really needed to do
Folks
I got the beast running, I really needed to do so as the UHD cameras had
maxed out the I7 processor on my
original ZoneMinder box.
A summary of what I did.
First I tried Ubuntu Server Live 18.04, it would not load abending with
unable to find bnx2 drivers.
Then for grins I tied Ubuntu 18.04
The weird thing is that the desktop version installs the bnx2 module just
fine and brings up the NIC cards,
I get IP assignments for both of them. Indeed I have tried both Ubuntu and
Ubuntu Mate and both of them
bring the NIC cards on line using the bnx2 driver.
I was looking at the server
When I have challenges like this, I often use a USB ethernet adapter during
the install, which uses common enough hardware that drivers are always
found in the default kernel module set.
-wes
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:42 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
> looked in the kernel.log and found the following
Sounds like you need to install the corresponding firmware package. A lot
of broadcom chips have in-kernel drivers, but you need the firmware for it
to actually bring up the card.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, 7:39 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
> looked in the kernel.log and found the following error message
>
looked in the kernel.log and found the following error message
bnx2 :05:00.0: Direct firmware load for bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
failed with error -2
bnx2 Can't load firmware file " bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw"
Then it appears to try and load it again and fails. But it works in the
desktop
The driver is bnx2, I think as Server is loading I see some red lines
flash by with bnx2 in them so I bet that
either it is missing or not loading for some reason.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:25 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
> I think I may see the issue, it appears that the Live Server needs to be
>
I think I may see the issue, it appears that the Live Server needs to be
able to pull down some software, It would
appear that I am going to have to set up a static connection (No big deal
but kind of hoky given that the DT
version can find both NICs perfectly well.
I also found that there is a
Had never used ethtool before, did the ethtool -h and got a whole probably
3 screens of data. The first thing
it wants is the DEVNAME, so I did a ifconfig, and it sees nothing, only the
loop back.
This is under Ubuntu server...
Now to try the desktop version that appears to find the NIC ports just
> Folks,
> I did this many moons ago when I lived in Kalama and worked at the glass
> plant.
> They had some spare ProLiant servers in a rack doing nothing, they wanted
> cameras, so I gave them cameras. I installed ubuntu server on one and then
> I installed ZoneMinder, it was quite easy and
Folks,
I did this many moons ago when I lived in Kalama and worked at the glass
plant.
They had some spare ProLiant servers in a rack doing nothing, they wanted
cameras, so I gave them cameras. I installed ubuntu server on one and then
I installed ZoneMinder, it was quite easy and that server did
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