100% CPU utilization on Dell R720 Server

[bbarker1989]

I'm running 12 IP cameras in Sighthound on a Dell R720 server here at one of my sites. I've been noticing a consistent CPU utilization of 100% while Sighthound is running. This is essentially causing the server to lock up.

I looked in task manager and it looks like there was a separate Sighthound process for each camera. There were all using about 150,000k of memory per process.

Is this normal operation for the number of cameras I'm running?

[ryan]

CPU usage is going to depend widely depending on a variety of factors, including camera resolution and stream type, as well as how active each cameras scene is.

As I don't know that information, or what CPU type you have I can't speak too much to that, but especially if they are HD cameras it doesn't sound too surprising. Assuming they are all the same model, you can always turn them off 1 by 1 and see where the limit is. There are a variety of tweaks to the cameras configuration pages (not in Sighthound Video) that might help, such as reducing the frame rate being sent and/or the resolution.

150mb of RAM being used per camera process is a normal value. Decoding and encoding video on its own requires a fair amount of memory, plus a bit for analytics.

You can find some example systems to compare against and details about system requirements here: www.sighthound.com/support/system-requirements