I have a link to Blue Iris on my website, so we’ll grab it from there.
The only way to know is by trying.īlue Iris does offer a 15-day trial or demo with slight limitations. If your Blue Iris machine is not a dedicated computer and there are other large, resource intensive applications running, then bringing Blue Iris down closer to that 10% CPU mark might be in your favor if possible. I don’t think this is a bottleneck or a concern on a gigabit network.įor a dedicated GPU, I’d be comfortable with running it under 50% utilization before asking why. That is the purpose of this drive, it has no dependencies and Blue Iris fully manages it.įor RAM, I would like to see Blue Iris use up to 4gigs.įor Ethernet, it totally depends on the camera count and resolution. I would expect to see 0% most of the time and up to 100% when in use and that would be totally normal.
For mechanical drives, it should only be used when moving data from the SSD or scanning through older footage. I would love to see 1 or 2% while recording at the highest quality. Anything over that should only be seen when scanning through footage. I like to try to reach 10% and then add features based on my priority to get the quality and experience I want most from the application.įor disk utilization when running Blue Iris, my target is 10% on an SSD. Would I rather it at 10%? No… because chances are at 10%, I am missing out on quality or frame rates. Would I rather it at 30%? Yes, that’s a good target. If you’re copying a file, your disk is going to work as fast as it can, which could mean it hits 100% (totally acceptable), but if data is streaming into the system at a certain bandwidth and speed and the disk cannot keep up in saving it, because the disk isn’t fast enough, or if it’s also getting used by other processes, then…… well you get the picture, there’s a problem.īack to my optimal performance: For me, when running an application like Blue Iris on a dedicated machine where no other heavy applications are running, I like to see the total CPU under 60% because it leaves room for spikes. Pinned resources can be totally normal, but when resources are overloaded and cannot keep up with the demand, then there’s an issue. Also, I want to say that when resources, like the CPU, hard drive, GPU, Ethernet or RAM get pinned at 100%, it’s important to understand why. Given this, I can expect to have a little higher utilization across resources.
For example, one of my requirements is continuous recording on all channels and I’m going to have 10-15 cameras.
This is a subjective matter with many dependencies, like the PC hardware, other programs installed on the machine, number of cameras and resolution and even expectations of the software. Since this video is about setting up Blue Iris and optimizing its performance, I want to define MY optimal performance. That’s our first performance tip using the correct hardware an SSD and a mechanical drive for camera footage management.
I could have used the same SSD drive for Windows and new footage, but it was a personal preference to add the second super-fast drive. And, in my very latest video, I just reviewed the specifications for this i7 PC, do check that out too, so you are up to speed on my hardware, including the 3 hard drives I have installed an SSD for Windows, an NVMe M.2 drive for Blue Iris’ new footage and an 8TB Western Digital purple drive for storing footage as a temporary archive. Check out this video on the steps I followed to wipe this machine so it’s running faster with all the garbage from over the last year whipped out. I recently restored this PC back to Windows defaults. With the latest version 5 and, a clean PC, and a handful of optimization tips, performance is about to change. In the past, I’ve struggled first hand with the software’s performance issues, system crashes and coming home to lost footage, error messages and even the blue screen of death.
For those of you who watch my channel know that I’m a big fan of the video monitoring and recording software Blue Iris.