Difference between revisions of "PurgeWhenFull"
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BEWARE of this limitation. You may think you don't have a problem with PurgeWhenFull, but it is easy to run into this. | BEWARE of this limitation. You may think you don't have a problem with PurgeWhenFull, but it is easy to run into this. | ||
For example, say you change to modect, and then you set the zone to be very sensitive. | For example, say you change to modect, and then you set the zone to be very sensitive. | ||
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which may work fine during the day, but at night, the noise from low light causes false alarms, and quickly fills up your | which may work fine during the day, but at night, the noise from low light causes false alarms, and quickly fills up your | ||
HDD with short events. With large amounts of short events, the 100 events from PurgeWhenFull will not be able to keep up. | HDD with short events. With large amounts of short events, the 100 events from PurgeWhenFull will not be able to keep up. | ||
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==Cleaning up a 100% Full HDD== | ==Cleaning up a 100% Full HDD== | ||
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* Run a filter manually | * Run a filter manually | ||
to delete 1000 events with less than 1 time. You can | to delete 1000 events with less than 1 time. You can click the delete, then click the delete | ||
again. It will not require you to go back to the filter screen each time. | again. It will not require you to go back to the filter screen each time. | ||
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events. | events. | ||
* Finally check off OPT_FAST_DELETE in the config, so that when events are deleted, it instantly deletes the images, instead | * Finally remove check off OPT_FAST_DELETE in the config, so that when events are deleted, it instantly deletes the images, instead | ||
of waiting for zmaudit.pl to cleanup later. | of waiting for zmaudit.pl to cleanup later. | ||
References: | |||
[https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=25278 https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=25278] | |||
[[Category:Dummies_Guide]] | |||
Latest revision as of 12:36, 24 October 2020
About
PurgeWhenFull is a filter which deletes (at default settings) 100 events when the DiskPercent is 90% full. /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl Is the perl script which calls PurgeWhenFull.
Configuration
It's necessary to tune PurgeWhenFull, if you have a larger system, or you are creating a lot of events. Essentially, if you are making more than 100 events between the PurgeWhenFill commands you will get a full HDD. Set it to 1000 and put the disk percent at 50% when starting a new system. Watch to make sure it doesn't go over 50%.
BEWARE of this limitation. You may think you don't have a problem with PurgeWhenFull, but it is easy to run into this. For example, say you change to modect, and then you set the zone to be very sensitive. Come night time, when the IR LEDs come on, you may have events piling up, as you are detecting events on pixels, which may work fine during the day, but at night, the noise from low light causes false alarms, and quickly fills up your HDD with short events. With large amounts of short events, the 100 events from PurgeWhenFull will not be able to keep up.
Cleaning up a 100% Full HDD
If you have gotten the disk space full, you will notice that all new events being created are given a time of 00:00. And no new events can be created. To clean this up:
- Run a filter manually
to delete 1000 events with less than 1 time. You can click the delete, then click the delete again. It will not require you to go back to the filter screen each time.
- /usr/bin/zmaudit.pl
and clean up the items in the HDD that do not have corresponding events in the DB. If you've already filled the DB with 00:00 events.
- Finally remove check off OPT_FAST_DELETE in the config, so that when events are deleted, it instantly deletes the images, instead
of waiting for zmaudit.pl to cleanup later.
References:
https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=25278
