# Wowza nDvr:  possible reasons for getting  "Too many packets in event queue"?

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-ndvr-possible-reasons-for-getting-too-many-packets-in-event-queue/51450
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-ndvr-possible-reasons-for-getting-too-many-packets-in-event-queue/51450 "2018-06-08T16:53:19Z")
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### Author: ![Mag\_Anderton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mag\_Anderton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mag_Anderton)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-ndvr-possible-reasons-for-getting-too-many-packets-in-event-queue/51450/1 "2018-06-08T16:53:19Z")

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I am using Wowza streaming engine nDVR to record live streams, but I see a bunch of “Too many packets in event queue, pausing” log-warning messages in the daemon.log:

2018-05-30 10:24:30,953 [WARN] tVHost\_.12 server comment LiveStreamDvrRecorderBase.addPacketizerEvent: Too many packets in event queue, pausing, errorCount:0 events:10001 lastEventTC:1527675734864 eventCount:536 processingEvent:true

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2018-05-30 10:26:02,775 [WARN] VHost\_.285 server comment LiveStreamDvrRecorderBase.addPacketizerEvent: Too many packets in event queue, pausing, errorCount:6750 events:10001 lastEventTC:1527675734864 eventCount:536 processingEvent:true

2018-05-30 10:26:06,405 [WARN] tVHost\_.93 server comment LiveStreamDvrRecorderBase.addPacketizerEvent: Too many packets in event queue, pausing, errorCount:7000 events:10001 lastEventTC:1527675734864 eventCount:536 processingEvent:true

2018-05-30 10:26:09,704 [WARN] VHost\_.184 server comment LiveStreamDvrRecorderBase.addPacketizerEvent: Too many packets in event queue, pausing, errorCount:7250 events:10001 lastEventTC:1527675734864 eventCount:536 processingEvent:true

2018-05-30 10:26:46,439 [INFO] stWatchdog server comment killUnidentifiedSessions: Killing unidentified session: address:/211.142.108.52:17179

2018-05-30 10:26:46,439 [INFO] stWatchdog server comment killUnidentifiedSessions: Killing unidentified session: address:/211.142.108.52:55544

What could be the reason for these log-messages?