Hardware enough for my configuration?
reddit / selfhosted

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maxmayer93 · 2023-11-10 11:21

Been thinking of setup a nice box to handle most of my things:
J4125 with a pci-ex 2x Intel nic, 16gb ram, Pico Psu 120W
3x8TB with mergerfs and snapraid nightly jobs
OS: Alpine linux (I'm not a proxmox fan tbh) in data mode with a usb
ssd as package cache.


Dockers:

* scrutiny
* uptimekuma
* watchtower
*  jellyfin
* qbittorrent
* shoko+shokofin
*  radarr
* sonarr
* jackett
* tachidesk
* wireguard
* authelia
*  vaultwarden
*  jellystat
* home assistant
*  cloudflared
*  nextcloud
*  photoprism

1 pfsense VM with pcie nic passed through to handle my internet and
motherboard lan dedicated to management.

My internet is 1gbit symmetric fiber.

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Been bugging me that maybe the raw power isn't enough to handle all
the load (not worried about dockers but mostly quality of my pfsense
vm)

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Thanks in advance

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GolemancerVekk · 2023-11-10 11:28

I don't think you should have an issue doing routing. You can try it
and see how it goes. If it turns out too taxing perhaps you can
consider getting an OpenWRT-capable dedicated router.

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maxmayer93 · 2023-11-10 11:38

Yeah, I know that splitting services is a better approach but wanted
to handle most of it on the box since it would be small and definitely
wife approved tucked in some furniture with good ventilation

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ElevenNotes · 2023-11-10 11:57

No, 16GB RAM is not enough.

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maxmayer93 · 2023-11-10 12:01

Can you elaborate ? What are the main ram consumer in those ? VM
should be plenty good with less than 4 gb and the other docker
containers are definitely not ram hungry.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-11-10 12:07

Set it up and see for yourself. Hypotheticals are useless.

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maxmayer93 · 2023-11-10 12:20

yeah, no transcoding there btw. Only on client side but I did answer
only to your comment that stated that it wasn't enough. Will try and
check ram consumption

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ElevenNotes · 2023-11-10 12:21

No problem, thanks for the downvote by the way.

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maxmayer93 · 2023-11-10 12:39

ehr i'm pretty sure I didnt ?

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dazchad · 2023-11-10 14:42

My setup is not too different and the system uses less than 3gb.

I’m more concerned about transcoding than memory