Mauricio Teixeira🐧Jan 16

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115698872870594708

Home lab architecture update: two of the Lenovo boxes in the picture below became Talos nodes, together with the Framework Desktop. The third Lenovo became a Proxmox node.

Yep, I'm back on the Proxmox bandwagon.

Now I have a bit of everything: Talos running Kubernetes, Proxmox running VM/LXC and Raspberry Pi running Docker.

At some point the three Raspberry Pis are going away, and the services are going to be distributed between Talos and Proxmox, then they are going to become back-end compute for shenanigans (like a Home Assistant dashboard, for example).

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox #Lenovo @homelab

Show threadMauricio Teixeira🐧Jan 16

Speaking about Home Assistant: I'm baffled about the fact that HAOS out of the box (no config at all) running as a VM is consuming 3.5GB of RAM, while the sum of Raspberry Pi OS + Home Assistant Docker, with thousands of entities, is barely touching 1.5GB RAM.

Is this because of the difference between x86_64 and ARM? Is that normal? 🤔

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab @homeassistant

Show thread__Miguel_Jan 16

@badnetmask That sounds about right. I am running HAOS on a RPi, and it's requesting about 3.5GB of RAM.

I am, however, running several add-ons and have quite a few entities myself. IIRC, add-ons aren't available on HA Docker.

Also, HAOS is I believe a Debian derivative, so if you're running the HA Docker over say Alpine you'll probably have a smaller overall footprint.

Show threadMauricio Teixeira🐧Jan 16
@nanianmichaels
Well, I'm comparing a new/empty HAOS with a heavily used Docker on a Raspbery Pi OS (Debian based, full of integrations and entities).
Show thread__Miguel_

@badnetmask Maybe there's some background stuff going on after the first boot, and thus requesting more RAM temporarily?

Also, how much RAM have you given the VM? You know what they say, unused RAM is wasted RAM, so maybe HAOS is just loading more stuff because there's RAM available?

Jan 16 at 10:06pmWeb
Show threadMauricio Teixeira🐧Jan 16
@nanianmichaels
It's been running for a couple of hours, and usage doesn't go down. It has 4GB RAM allocated, but there's nothing installed yet, so it shouldn't be using that much.