#1- I checked it from the GUI I know it's
mellow wedge
Ideally you stay a bit below 80% at all times for the node. At 80% PVE will kick in its ballooning and KSM the VMs will receive only the minimum amount of RAM you've set for them.
See if you find something related to OOM in the node > System > System log. I'd also like to see the VM's Hardware tab.
Note that PVE uses varying units and the memory you set is only part of what is used for a VM. There's other background services that also need their own memory.
wary quartz
HAOS VM Hardware:
mellow wedge
Yeah well your VM gets ripped its memory from its hands when your node reached 80% memory usage and left with 1GiB.
Minimum means the minimum your node needs to properly work. Everything else on top of that is extra, not a guarantee. Assign at least 2G to HAOS.
wary quartz
Upgrading the memory is a must
but I don't know if the Homelab motherboard supports 32GB
it's dual channel and it has 2x8GB installed, and the docs says Supports up to 16 GB (unbuffered) on 64-bit computers
does that mean it only support 16GB in total, or 16GB per channel like 2x16GB?
mellow wedge
Supports up to 16 GB
Supports 4 GB and 8 GB UDIMMs
SIcne it has two slots...
Sometimes you can use CPUs that are not supported or more memory than listed. I think it depends on the CPU's memory controller.
mellow wedge
Buy some RAM from amazon or a professional seller and send it back if it doesn't work 😛
wary quartz
That was exactly what I was going to do 😅
I'll test if 32GB will work or not..
but is 64GB worth a try, or it will definitely not work?
mellow wedge
I'd just buy two kits. 32G and 64G and test it out. Yeah it's a bit douchy but what can I say.
wary quartz
I'd just buy two kits. 32G and 64G and test it out. Yeah it's a bit douchy but w...
And then return both if both fail 😅 hope my Amazon account doesn't get suspended
I return a lot of stuff
mellow wedge
Me too but I try to avoid it if I can. Costs time too.
wary quartz
To be honest, they're losing more money than us losing time
Most of the things that get returned gets thrown out, it costs them more money to check if each device/item is in good condition to be sold again. so they just throw it out or give it to wholesale buyers like "Black Fridays Daily Discount Store"
Anyway, thanks a lot for the help, I increased the minimum ram allocation, and I'll try upgrading the memory
mellow wedge
Please report back whether it accepted the additional memory and the crashing stopped.
wary quartz
Great news!
It accepted the 32GB ram
didn't get 64 to be honest, might try it out later
mellow wedge
:<
wary quartz
I'll look for the crashes, but ever since I increased HA from 4 to 6GB, it didn't happen again
Thanks a lot for the help
just two more questions if you mind me asking
mellow wedge
Sure, gotta go in a minute though.
wary quartz
I made a Jellyfin container, and I have a GTX 1060, I enabled hardware acceleration, but I don't know how to install nvidia drivers 0_0
I tried two times and I almost bricked the whole server, since I literally know nothing at the moment and blindly copying and pasting commands (Yes I know I shouldn't be doing that 😦 )
do you know a good documentation?
mellow wedge
You'd enable non-free component and then install the nvidia package. Can't remember the exact name.
wary quartz
you probably logged out by now, feel free to answer whenever you're free please,
the pc has two SATA cables 1 HDD, 1 SSD (boot drive), one optical drive and one M.2 which has a Wi-Fi card. I plan to replace the optical drive and SSD with HDDs and the Wi-Fi card with an m.2 ssd as boot drive.
But the SATA power going to the optical drive is mini SATA so I'll have to get a SATA power splitter. does this plan seem possible?
the m.2 is listed as "One M.2 socket 1, key A" does key A mean it wouldn't support ssds?