Oh so the other 80% of your RAM can sit there and do nothing? My RAM is always around 80% or so as its caching stuff like it’s supposed to.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Al my services run on bare metal because its easy. And the backups work. It heavily simplifies the work and I dont have to worry about things like a virtual router, using more cpu just to keep the container…contained and running. Plus a VERY tiny system can run:
- Peertube
- GoToSocial + client
- RSS
- search engine
- A number of custom sites
- backups
- Matrix server/client
- and a whole lot more
Without a single docker container. Its using around 10-20% of the RAM and doing a dd once in a while keeps everything as is. Its been 4 years-ish and has been working great. I used to over-complicate everything with docker + docker compose but I would have to keep up with the underlining changes ALL THE TIME. It sucked, and its not something I care about on my weekends.
I use docker, kub, etc…etc… all at work. And its great when you have the resources + coworkers that keep things up to date. But I just want to relax when I get home. And its not the end of the world if any of them go down.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Hahaha that’s funny. I hope your not serous.
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unused RAM is wasted RAM
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Welp OP did ask how we set it up. And for a family instance its good enough. The ram was extra that came with the comp. I have other things to do than optimize my family home server. There’s no latency at all already.
It spikes when peertube videos are uploaded and transcoded + matrix sometimes. Have a good night!
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
what do you run for RSS?
also, I hope you are not doing backups by dding an in use filesystem
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Freshrss. Sips resources.
The dd I do when I want. I have a script I tested a while back. The machine won’t be on yeah. Its just a small image with the software.
kiol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do you use any tools for management, such as Ansible or similar?
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Couple of custom bash scripts for the backups. Ive used amsible at work. Its awesome, but my own stuff doesn’t require any robustness.
Miaou@jlai.lu 7 hours ago
Assuming you run Synapse, that uses more than 1.5GB RAM just idling, your system has at the very least 16GB of RAM… Hardly what I’d call “very tiny”
mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 hours ago
…ok so Im lying about my system for…some reason?
Synapse looks like its using 200M right now. It jumps to 1 GB when being heavily used, but I only use it for piefed and a couple of other local rooms. Honestly its not doing so much for us so we were thinking of getting rid of it. Its irritating to keep having to set up new devices and no one is really using it.
Peertube is much bigger running around 500MB just doing its thing.
Its a single family instance…you ok?
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