I have nine cameras, and after upgrading to BI 6, My GPU utilization is constantly between 65% - 80%. I have reached out to BI support and they were very responsive, but didn't know how to correct the issue. I can't handle how loud the fans are while BI is running, so I think I have to downgrade back to 5.9. My running a Ryzen 5900x, 64GB ram and a 3060 GPU.
Anyone else seeing high GPU usage after upgrading to 6?
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Bruce_H
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Do you have hardware acceleration turned on for the cameras, if so then turn it off and only use the GPU for the AI. Do you have sub streams enabled for all of your cameras if not then enable it!
Thank you for the response. Disabling hardware acceleration solved the GPU issue. What exactly does hardware acceleration do, and will the AI takeover this process automatically just by being enabled?
As far as using hardware decoding is concerned, it used to be a requirement to process the mainstream videos.
However, with substreams being introduced, the CPU% needed to offload video to a GPU (internal or external) is more than the CPU% savings seen by offloading to a GPU. Especially after about 12 cameras, the CPU goes up by using hardware acceleration. The wiki points this out as well.
Plus substreams opens up the possibility for older machines to be just fine, along with non-intel computers.
Around the time AI was introduced in BI, many here had their system become unstable with hardware acceleration (hardware decode) (Quick Sync) on (even if not using DeepStack or CodeProject). Some have also been fine. I started to see errors when I was using hardware acceleration several updates into when AI was added.
It seems to be a big issues with BI6 and many threads like yours are here.
This hits everyone at a different point. Some had their system go wonky immediately, some it was after a specific update, and some still don't have a problem, but the trend is showing running hardware acceleration will result in a problem at some point.
My CPU % went down by not using hardware acceleration.
Here is a recent thread where someone turned off hardware acceleration based on my post and their CPU dropped 10-15% and BI became stable.
But if you use HA, use plain intel and not the variants.
Some still don't have a problem, but eventually it may result in a problem.
Here is a sampling of recent threads that turning off HA fixed the issues they were having....
No hardware acceleration with subs?
Hardware decoding just increases GPU usage?
Can't enable HA on one camera + high Bitrate
And as always, YMMV.
However, with substreams being introduced, the CPU% needed to offload video to a GPU (internal or external) is more than the CPU% savings seen by offloading to a GPU. Especially after about 12 cameras, the CPU goes up by using hardware acceleration. The wiki points this out as well.
Plus substreams opens up the possibility for older machines to be just fine, along with non-intel computers.
Around the time AI was introduced in BI, many here had their system become unstable with hardware acceleration (hardware decode) (Quick Sync) on (even if not using DeepStack or CodeProject). Some have also been fine. I started to see errors when I was using hardware acceleration several updates into when AI was added.
It seems to be a big issues with BI6 and many threads like yours are here.
This hits everyone at a different point. Some had their system go wonky immediately, some it was after a specific update, and some still don't have a problem, but the trend is showing running hardware acceleration will result in a problem at some point.
My CPU % went down by not using hardware acceleration.
Here is a recent thread where someone turned off hardware acceleration based on my post and their CPU dropped 10-15% and BI became stable.
But if you use HA, use plain intel and not the variants.
Some still don't have a problem, but eventually it may result in a problem.
Here is a sampling of recent threads that turning off HA fixed the issues they were having....
No hardware acceleration with subs?
Hardware decoding just increases GPU usage?
Can't enable HA on one camera + high Bitrate
And as always, YMMV.
