Post Anj0KzxpGUe3GiTHk0 by unexpectedteapot@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AniGVvSrjp0cblGLI0 by alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza
2024-11-04T22:28:02Z
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I follow several forums about the home server world and I am amazed at the amount of resources people dedicate to their equipment. How can a home server need 32 GB of RAM? I use an old PC with 4 GB of RAM running 11 Docker containers continuously and I don't even consume half that memory.It's true that I can't run photo/video servers due to lack of resources, but I have plenty of them for everything else. What am I missing?#selfhosting
(DIR) Post #AniK8i9xRI0QV2bXG4 by boxofsnoo@social.linux.pizza
2024-11-04T23:08:39Z
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@alejandrobdn the easy answer is… 28GB of RAMBut VMs is another thing, also if people use it as a NAS using ZFS it likes a lot of RAM
(DIR) Post #AnikcIPILgys7oXuUa by tshrinivasan@mastodon.social
2024-11-05T04:05:18Z
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@alejandrobdn It depends on what you want to run on the home server.The more resources, the more things we can run.
(DIR) Post #AnitXDlb4azTsBdH9M by ardmore@fosstodon.org
2024-11-05T05:45:15Z
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@alejandrobdn I completely agree with you. I upgraded my system from 4 to 8 GB about a year ago, when I installed #paperlessngx and #Immich besides my other 20-ish containers. It's a fan-less dual-core Celeron, which has been running reliably for about 5 years. Some people probably like the apparent fault tolerance using a cluster of machines, but the additional complexity often causes more harm than it actually helps. Not to talk about the power consumption of such systems...
(DIR) Post #Anj0KzxpGUe3GiTHk0 by unexpectedteapot@social.linux.pizza
2024-11-05T07:01:29Z
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@alejandrobdn aside from the hobbyist and privileged aspect of it, I suspect that most of the RAM would be used as disk cache, making routine things run really fast.