Hi y’all. I’ve got an Intel Nuc 10 here. I want to run a few apps on it, like BitWarden, PiHole, NextCloud, Wireguard, and maybe more, just for my own use, inside my home.
Is there a way to guage whether the hardware is up to the task in advance? Like, if love to be able to plan this by saying, “this container will use x MB of ram and 5% of the cpu” and so on?
I want to run everything on this one PC since that’s all I have right now.
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I just use docker desktop for that, it shows memory usage.
For example I tried immich and saw that it takes 3 gb of ram to host a gallery with a single image
It sounds like it could easily run these. You could probably get away with a newer raspberry pi for them so the nuc should have no issues.
For reference the heaviest thing for me has been Home assistant os, which needs dedicated ram and cores for it’s VM. I’ve had no issues with running almost a dozen services on a 4790k based system along HA including: Immich, plex, radarr/sonarr/prowlarr/etc, usually a dedicated game server for Valheim or Minecraft or something, and some other lighter services.
I think ram (16gb) is going to be the limiting factor in my case but I haven’t hit that limit yet
I should add more ram soon because Im running 30 services on 8GB atm and looks like Im about to hit the wall. Services I run atm are pihole, nextcloud, wireguard server, arr stack, jellyfin, homeassistant and more.
For comparison, I’m running about a hundred containers on a 9 year old laptop easily (i7 4700 HQ with 16GB ram), I’m sure I can run many more
Is it running 24/7?
Im currently thinking of using my old laptop for this, but im scared it may get hot
Although i only got core i5 something and a 4gb ram ( asus k46cb )
It is running 24/7 yes, temps are stable and only really goes up when I’m home and actively doing things that would make it go up (like watching jellyfin). It runs with the lid closed and screen off.
You can always use one of those laptop stands with coolers underneath, or even without coolers, just having it lifted may improve airflow too. I did monitor the temps the first few days but it really doesn’t seem to be an issue, CPU temps at the moment is around 50 C, GPU is disabled as it’s old and can’t even be used to transcode anything.
You can always just use your laptop to try it out, see where it goes and then decide to spend money on something better and more suited to your needs.
CPU wise: Monitor load average as you load services. If it stays below the number of cores you are fine. That being said nuc 10 has a 6 core cpu Its more than OK for a barebones. For reference I’m running smooth on a raspberry400 4 GB RAM.
Vaultwarden
nginx webdav
Photoprism
Librephotos
Owntracks
Traccar
Monocker
Brave go-aync
Mozilla sync
Wallabag
radicale
Baikal
Ncfpm
Wireguard
Jellyfin
Rsstt
Joplin webview
Just fine
So you’ll be fine
