Well, I am glad you guys have good performance with QVR on your NAS while running other things. I don’t know.
I was trying to do some on the fly transcoding on my TS-873A and was having all sorts of issues. I had a ticket open with Paul from QNAP. He and I had a TeamViewer session and he’s the one who pointed out the very high CPU load (not CPU percentage but the Load values in TOP). It was like in the 30s. The NAS was very slow - very SLOW.
So he started stopping things. When he stopped Container Station, the load values dropped dramatically. He had me run some further checks over that weekend and get back to him. I have two apps running in containers and so it was either those or a Container Station dependent app like QVR Pro. I started Container Station and then stopped QVR Pro. My usage numbers when down again. Started QVR Pro and the numbers went right back up. Tried QVR Elite - same thing.
So I don’t know if it’s the combination or apps/services/etc I have running on my TS-873 but since I’ve moved QVR Pro off to my TS-451, the NAS performance has been SO much better. I have a flaky camera that regularly disconnects so maybe that’s it. Maybe it’s my motion detection settings. I don’t know. You guys say your numbers are fine, but it wasn’t my experience.
It runs fine now by itself on my TS-451. Sometimes the video is a little jerky but all in all it seems to be fine. Now that NAS is just dedicated to surveillance video instead of being my backup destination NAS. Now my backups are on my TVS-672XT. Everything seems to be running pretty well now… knock on wood!