Re: [Motion-user] CPU usage-high?

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Hey Steve,

Thanks for the reply.
It is actually a 2.2Ghz AMD64 3500. Not too old. What do people with 4
cameras on one core do?

I compile motion manually.
I am using a 640x480 resolution and 30fps.

Here are my settings:

daemon off
process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid
setup_mode off
videodevice /dev/video1
v4l2_palette 8
input 1
norm 1
frequency 0
rotate 0
width 640
height 480
framerate 30
minimum_frame_time 0
netcam_tolerant_check off
auto_brightness off
brightness 0
contrast 0
saturation 0
hue 0
roundrobin_frames 1
roundrobin_skip 1
switchfilter off
threshold 300
threshold_tune off
noise_level 32
despeckle EedDdDdDdDl
mask_file /mask5.pgm
smart_mask_speed 0
minimum_motion_frames 1
pre_capture 5
post_capture 40
gap 120
max_mpeg_time 0
output_all off
output_normal on
output_motion off
quality 100
ppm off
ffmpeg_cap_new on
ffmpeg_cap_motion off
ffmpeg_timelapse 0
ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
ffmpeg_bps 500000
ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 2
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
ffmpeg_deinterlace off
snapshot_interval 0
locate on
text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
text_changes on
text_event %Y%m%d%H%M%S
text_double off
target_dir /new/motion
snapshot_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot
jpeg_filename %Y/jpeg/FrontCam-%H_%M_%S-%v-%q
movie_filename %Y/%m/%d/video_%H_%M_%S-%v
timelapse_filename %Y%m%d-timelapse
webcam_port 8081
webcam_quality 75
webcam_motion on
webcam_maxrate 5
webcam_localhost off
webcam_limit 0
control_port 8080
control_localhost off
control_html_output on
track_type 0
track_auto off
track_motorx 0
track_motory 0
track_maxx 0
track_maxy 0
track_iomojo_id 0
track_step_angle_x 10
track_step_angle_y 10
track_move_wait 10
track_speed 255
track_stepsize 40
quiet on
sql_log_image on
sql_log_snapshot on
sql_log_mpeg off
sql_log_timelapse off
sql_query insert into security(camera, filename, frame, file_type,
time_stamp, event_time_stamp) values('%t', '%f', '%q', '%n', '%Y-%m-%d %T',
'%C')

Thanks,
Bruce

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steven Moix <ste...@ax...> wrote:

> Hi Bruce
>
> On 05/11/2009 04:22 PM, Bruce M wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have one camera on a BT878 pinnacle card. The CPU usage while motion is
> > running and not capturing any jpeg's is ~30%.
> > The Cpu usage when motion is capturing is ~80%.
> > Is this normal?
> > I am running the latest Fedora and using 2gig of Ram on an AMD 3500+ cpu
> > system.
>
> Are you using the RPM from RPM Fusion?
>
> > The CPU usage seems high?? If I add another camera and both are
> detecting, I
> > am afraid I will get too high of usage.
> > What are others seeing as their usage?
>
> It really depends on a lot of things, but on my system (Fedora 11,
> ffmpeg 0.5, Q9550) a 640x480 video capture at 20 fps doesn't exceed 40%
> CPU usage on one core. An AMD 3500+ is quite an old system, these seem
> reasonable numbers to me honestly...it just depends on your fps and
> resolution.
>
> Steven
>
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