There’s a big difference between desktop environment needs and headless server needs.
Anything with user interaction will require an enormous number of additional services, which consumes resources.
I expect to run simple headless software on 256-512 MB of RAM. For example.
alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Can’t really apply that logic to cheap vps
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Sure I can.
You’re complaining about needing 4gb of RAM on a virtualized platform in 2025, when 4gb of ram was common on a laptop (which is heavily space constrained) thirteen years ago.
It’s a fair comparison.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 days ago
Laptops usually run desktop environments which are quite resources intensive. You can easily run some Docker services on 2GB. The debian VM that natively runs my nginx reverse proxy has 512 MB RAM and works perfectly fine.
zingo@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I’m running Urbackup in a Dietpi VM, with 256Mb RAM. Works fine.
Urbackup server is running about 70Mb RAM idle.
I could probably go down to 128Mb for the whole VM, but that’s is pointless.