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iCam Support / MASSIVE slowdowns using iCamSource on Mac Mini
« on: July 09, 2018, 08:15:13 AM »
My wife has a late-2009 Mac Mini running the latest macOS High Sierra. when running icamsource on it, we notice that LOADS of CPU time is taken up by the application. It makes her computer run super slow. Even web pages. She can sit there having to wait on Facebook to load up. Or it takes forever for our checkbook software to load up and Excel to launch. The only way to help the situation at all is to disable the motion detection portion of it. I have set up schedules on it for when to record/detect motion. While that is *a* solution, it isn't really the best one. What happens if something happens during the times it isn't detecting/recording? What happens if I forget to turn it back on if I kill it while she is using it and then we leave?
Basically, what I'm doing here is trying to see if there is a reason why it uses so much CPU time dragging the system down. Is there anything we can do to make it work any better? Is it just because of the processing that is required when doing the detection? Would reducing the detectable zones help? Is there ANYTHING we can do to make it more useful?
Thanks.
Basically, what I'm doing here is trying to see if there is a reason why it uses so much CPU time dragging the system down. Is there anything we can do to make it work any better? Is it just because of the processing that is required when doing the detection? Would reducing the detectable zones help? Is there ANYTHING we can do to make it more useful?
Thanks.