In a previous thread a couple months ago, I complained about how some actions on my NAS were abominably slow. That led to me reinstalling the OS and switching to QuTS Hero. Things were better after the OS install but still slow sometimes. This led to memory checks (all passed). Finally last night, I had a TeamViewer session with one of the QNAP techs.
He pointed out how when you run TOP on an SSH session to the NAS, that my NAS was showing values of 29 or 30 in the load average. He said that it should be less than 10. I thought the load average was CPU percentage. It’s not. It’s basically the number of threads waiting to be executing. Since my NAS had 8 logical cores, there were a lot of processes just sitting there waiting. So he began disabling things. When he disabled Container Station, the load average dropped tremendously. When we re-enabled it, it went right back up.
After our call ended, I started playing around with apps that depend on Container Station and found out that if I disabled QVR Pro, things worked a whole lot better! I tried out QVR Elite instead and still had the same problem.
With the surveillance apps disabled, I’m now getting load averages of 2 to 4 instead of being in the 20s or 30s. Big difference. So this brings me to my question…
Is it generally recommended to run QVR Pro or Elite on a NAS dedicated to just that app? How large of a NAS? I only have two cameras and only one is doing motion detection. But it drove the load way up. I have a TS-458 but I want to keep that as a backup destination and its CPU is generally swamped as it is so I don’t think QVR Pro would work on that. I was thinking about buying a smaller used system on eBay to run QVR and handle my cameras. Thoughts about what people do?
Thanks!