Many cores or greater speed, which is more important?

[Sparkey]

I currently have BI running on a server with a i7 4790 cpu running at 3.6GHz and 16GB of ram. 11 cams.

I have available a dual processor server running 2 E5 2620's running at 2.00GHz. 24 cores total. 64GB of ram. I also have a couple of E5 2670's available I could drop in which would boost it up to 32 cores and 2.6GHz.

I plan to add a couple more cams so would it be worthwhile to transfer BI to the second server even tho the cpu speed is lower?

TIA

 

[mat200]

I currently have BI running on a server with a i7 4790 cpu running at 3.6GHz and 16GB of ram. 11 cams.

I have available a dual processor server running 2 E5 2620's running at 2.00GHz. 24 cores total. 64GB of ram. I also have a couple of E5 2670's available I could drop in which would boost it up to 32 cores and 2.6GHz.

I plan to add a couple more cams so would it be worthwhile to transfer BI to the second server even tho the cpu speed is lower?

TIA

Hi @Sparkey

There's more than Hz or cores to this evaluation .. you need to see how well the cpus support H264/H265 encoding for example ..

In general, newer generations of chips = better ..

 

[wittaj]

What is your current CPU%?

If you have done every optimization in the wiki (substreams and direct to disc is a must), then your CPU should be sub 10% and no real reason then to update for the sake of updating...

A member here runs that same processor with 50 cams at sub 30% CPU.

 

[Sparkey]

CPU usage is at 33% so I'll go read the wiki. I was thinking the power draw would be considerably higher with the dually system.

 

[wittaj]

Yeah, your system isn't optimized to be at 11 cameras at 33%

 

[bradner]

i5-4590 @ 3.3GHz, 16GB RAM, onboard video running 34 cams fine at 70-85% CPU usage. ~20,700kB/s 250 MP/s.

Your system is stronger than mine. I've tried optimizing up the ying yang and have just accepted my CPU usage.

 

[Freubel]

i5-6500 3.2 16GB memory but running @ 1.30 in general with 6 camera's. I think that's pretty efficient.