guermantes
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Hi,
This is my LAN-only box, see signature, when it's idle, with a few hours distance. I have already ordered another stick of the same 16BG RAM that I've already got, but since swap utilization is almost zero, I was thinking:
-it's primarily a music/non-transcoding video server for one user,
-it holds more RAW photography files that I work on once in a while,
-it runs a Ubuntu server 16.04 in a VM in order to serve LAN-only Nextcloud for one user (contacts and calendar-sync only). The VM is given 2048 MB, just to be sure there is headroom.
-most of the time the freenas is actually just idling along, being an expensive toy
As you can see I am not pushing it in terms of workload. Is the swap well enough to cope with scrubs and activity, or is this a really bad situation to be in? Should I perhaps even turn it off untill the new RAM arrives?
Main reason for this situation: I originally provisioned the RAM to be double my needs of 8GB, but then I decided to buy 6x4 TB HDD, rather than 4x3 TB - and I forgot to recalculate my RAM needs!!
This is my LAN-only box, see signature, when it's idle, with a few hours distance. I have already ordered another stick of the same 16BG RAM that I've already got, but since swap utilization is almost zero, I was thinking:
-it's primarily a music/non-transcoding video server for one user,
-it holds more RAW photography files that I work on once in a while,
-it runs a Ubuntu server 16.04 in a VM in order to serve LAN-only Nextcloud for one user (contacts and calendar-sync only). The VM is given 2048 MB, just to be sure there is headroom.
-most of the time the freenas is actually just idling along, being an expensive toy
As you can see I am not pushing it in terms of workload. Is the swap well enough to cope with scrubs and activity, or is this a really bad situation to be in? Should I perhaps even turn it off untill the new RAM arrives?
Main reason for this situation: I originally provisioned the RAM to be double my needs of 8GB, but then I decided to buy 6x4 TB HDD, rather than 4x3 TB - and I forgot to recalculate my RAM needs!!

