Linux

47573 readers

969 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Good NAS Software for a Bad PC? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

20 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Up till now I've been running Debian on a 2008 Dell tower as my homeserver. I just got 2 1tb drives for it so I want to upgrade to an actual dedicated NAS software to simplify how I manage it. The problem is, I only have 4gb of RAM in it. Any recommendations?

Edit: For context, I mostly use the server for Nextcloud and Syncthing but I also want to be able to have a generic Debian server with ssh access available if I need it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Minimum RAM for TrueNAS is 8gb. I really should get more RAM though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You technically can run on 4, but you won’t have much in the way of ZFS cache and forget about containers like nextcloud/syncthing. You’ll get NFS/SMB and rsync and that’s it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My syncthing container consumes about 100 MB of RAM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My bare TrueNAS consumes about 3.8 GiB of ram without any containers running and not counting cache.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh jeez, that's terrible. What is using the RAM? I'm also consuming 3.7 GB (without buffers) but I have 21 containers running (Debian stable):

Jellyfin and Deluge take the lion's share out of that, about 85%.
NPM, Navidrome, MySQL are the second-tier largest offenders but take 1/10th of the 1st tier together.
BubbleUPnP Server, Scrutiny, Tailscale, Syncthing, Radicale, my VPN are 3rd tier, about 1/2 of 2nd tier.
Then another ~10 containers with very little amounts of RAM per container (CUPS, Ntfy, my dev Nginx server etc.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It is? Damn. I’m very much a newbie to TrueNAS. I thought it was high but had no basis of comparison. It’s a pretty fresh install. I installed jellyfin but shut it down, pending a memory upgrade to actually start using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Your storage is so small it'll be fine