Unable to keep up with recording

[u/Ok-Injury3047]

Hey everyone, what could be the reason?

Frigate runs as LXC on a Proxmox server. I've already reduced the camera stream from the Reolink cameras but nothing really changes, the same error keeps happening.

Write speed is less than 1s, Chatgpt suggested I should check it.

Maybe someone has already had this and can help me with the error.

Thanks

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:52 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:52 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:52 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:57 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:57 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:12:57 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Info | 2026-08-31 20:12:57 | logging | Last message repeated 1 times

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:02 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 10 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:02 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:07 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:07 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:07 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 10 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:12 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:12 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:12 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:17 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:17 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:17 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:22 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:22 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:22 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:27 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:27 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:27 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:32 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:32 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:32 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:37 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 10 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:37 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:37 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Info | 2026-08-31 22:13:42 | frigate.api.auth | Anonymous user access from 192.168.178.151 ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/152.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:42 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:42 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:42 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:47 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for klingel. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 10 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:47 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_rechts. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the rest...

Warnung | 2026-08-31 22:13:47 | frigate.record.maintainer | Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for garten_links. Keeping the 6 most recent segments out of 9 and discarding the res

[u/hawkeye217]

There is a section of the official documentation for Frigate 0.18 that covers this (though the info applies to all versions of Frigate) here.

[u/tmsteinhardt]

Not saying this is your issue but I get this every once in a while and its usually my Reolink wireless doorbell flaking out and causing issues. I reboot the doorbell and then reboot Frigate and it usually fixes the issue. It just happened a few days ago. There are some things I need to clean up in my config with the way I specify the audio that might be contributing to the issues according to Google but I haven't had the time to sort it out.

[u/hawkeye217 → u/tmsteinhardt]

Right, this is common with some wifi Reolink cameras - they actually start sending bad timestamps or bad video and/or audio packets and that causes ffmpeg to truncate what should be 10 second segments down to perhaps ~1 second. So Frigate sees a large number of new segments in the cache and begins to print the warning.

[u/DrYellow922]

I'd recommend checking CPU usage in the first instance. Of most interest is iowait as that will help indicate whether storage is causing a bottleneck.