Blue Iris randomly spikes CPU usage to 100% requiring restart

Mike

Mike

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Hi everyone,

On one of my computers running Blue Iris (i5-2320), the CPU will randomly spike to 100% usage out of nowhere, despite if any cameras are recording or not. There are 8 Foscam cameras recording on it and 5 Hikvision 2032's recording (sub stream, not main stream). All of the Hik's are using direct-to-disc and BVR format but the Foscam's arent using direct-to-disc (need the time overlay). The CPU typically is under 30% even when recording but out of nowhere it spikes and stays high which eventually will blue screen of death me. If I close BI the CPU usage jumps back down, but if I re-open it, then it jumps back up. A restart fixes the issue. The Hikvisions only record M-F, 10AM - 6PM, at night it's only the foscams and the computer will still max out the resources and reboot.

I keep the computer on 24/7 but because of this, it freezes then blue screen of death's and restarts. Once restarted, it's fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
 
windows 8? How's the memory looking? sound like a memory leak issue maybe?

Haven't seen this before on my win8/i7/16GB with 10 cams with the latest BI version, but im not running direct-to-disc...

Mike said:
Hi everyone,

On one of my computers running Blue Iris (i5-2320), the CPU will randomly spike to 100% usage out of nowhere, despite if any cameras are recording or not. There are 8 Foscam cameras recording on it and 5 Hikvision 2032's recording (sub stream, not main stream). All of the Hik's are using direct-to-disc and BVR format but the Foscam's arent using direct-to-disc (need the time overlay). The CPU typically is under 30% even when recording but out of nowhere it spikes and stays high which eventually will blue screen of death me. If I close BI the CPU usage jumps back down, but if I re-open it, then it jumps back up. A restart fixes the issue. The Hikvisions only record M-F, 10AM - 6PM, at night it's only the foscams and the computer will still max out the resources and reboot.

I keep the computer on 24/7 but because of this, it freezes then blue screen of death's and restarts. Once restarted, it's fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
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i'de just blame them foscams... :) (Nice to able to say that without the threat of being banded :)


Mike said:
It's a Windows 7 machine (64 bit), i5-2320 @ 3 GHz and 8 GB of RAM (Acer Aspire M3970)

The memory stays at about 50%, regardless of when the CPU spikes.

Thanks!
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Probably indirectly... Some video driver or encoder that BI uses I would guess... huge guess.. I would be upgrading to windows 8, but that's just me...

I though I remember some 100% issue on cam-it... to bad i can't search the site anymore :(



Mike said:
LOL ;) You really think it's them?
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The report of 100% CPU on cam-it was your posts :p

dalepa said:
Probably indirectly... Some video driver or encoder that BI uses I would guess... huge guess.. I would be upgrading to windows 8, but that's just me...

I though I remember some 100% issue on cam-it... to bad i can't search the site anymore :(
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dalepa said:
i'de just blame them foscams... :) (Nice to able to say that without the threat of being banded :)
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What?? Huh?? Did someone really get banned from cam-it just for blaming foscam for a problem?


@Mike

If your New/Alerts/Storage folders have a lot of files in them, it could be the index generation being ridiculously slow. I used to have Blue Iris spike in CPU usage when I'd try to load the web interface - which, by the way, was taking several minutes to load. Once I cleared out all my previous recordings all was well.
 
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@Mike

If your New/Alerts/Storage folders have a lot of files in them, it could be the index generation being ridiculously slow. I used to have Blue Iris spike in CPU usage when I'd try to load the web interface - which, by the way, was taking several minutes to load. Once I cleared out all my previous recordings all was well.
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Great, will try that! Thanks.
 
bp2008 said:
What?? Huh?? Did someone really get banned from cam-it just for blaming foscam for a problem?
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As I understand it, yes. I was also banned without warning last week, I guess my 2-3 replies about not liking censorship was not acceptable. Or a cam-it admin is reading my censorship complaints to another user via PM. Never have I seen craziness...

Anyways, I'm done with cam-it. ipcamtalk is already so much better and with a Zero Censorship policy (except for extreme cases, and ban by admin vote only).
 
yup, its was for "constant bashing on foscam and foscam users". I did bash foscam. I never bashed a user. I simply informed them that if they still can they should return the camera. I was trying to help. I wish someone would have told me that there are much better products out there. I once received a warning by an mod because we disagreed on a technical issue in one or two threads, I believe it was related to a hard drive. Dwanye sided with the mod when it was clear the moderator was being a bully. See the problem with forum admins and mods is that the power get to their heads. That wont happen here, EVER.
 
The last few times I experienced the 100% CPU issue, I noticed that it was at night and one of my cameras constantly alerting due to a spider web or rain reflection. When I disabled said camera, the 100% issue would disappear.
 
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