[Motion-user] Watching lots of cameras, need to slow down the framerate

[aaron b. <as_...@ya...>]

Hello motion list,

I have a server watching about 200 cameras, and it sits at 100% CPU all the time.  It's watching
.jpg files that are updated by netcams once every 30 seconds-ish.  I want to slow motion down
further than just 1 frame per second.  Is there any possible way to do that?

Second question: the box has two gig of RAM and 2 gig of Swap.  According to TOP, motion is using
3051m of VIRT memory (which is resident + swap, right?).  See:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21317 root      26  10 3051m 199m 1032 S 88.5  9.8  46:50.94 motion

But I don't see that it's actually using any of the swapfile:

[root@linux ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2074908    1100324     974584          0     224416     421684
-/+ buffers/cache:     454224    1620684
Swap:      2088416          0    2088416

So where is this memory being allocated?  I'm wondering because: if I add more cameras, will it
hit a maximum of some kind and die?  

Any thoughts on these two questions are appreciated.  Thank you!

Aaron

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