UPDATE EDIT:
Man it is crazy to watch the dashboard and console at the time. Even with no HDD’s spinning, and as much RAM as I can give the Scale VM, services just slowly takes over the RAM, until the console shows kernel panic.
core was solid for so long with everything i threw at it.
it runs out of memory after services soaks up all the RAM, ZFS cache is choked down to 3gb out of 16.
- xeon E3 1265LV2
- Asus p8z77-v-deluxe
- 32GB DDR3
- hba passed through to truenas running a mirror pool
VM for truenas is running on the local proxmox SSD.
- proxmox 9.1.1
- TrueNAS scale 25.10.0.1 but i tried a 24 version also
once the install starts crashing, the VM will still crash after booting up without the HBA card
I’ve seen a few posts with other people having the out of memory issues (OOM) but almost every reply says it will be fixed in the next update, which is older than what we’ve got now.
it did run okay enough JUST long enough to make the mistake of updating the ZFS flags, so now i can’t roll back to core.
does scale have this issue because it’s virtualized? would it run better on bare metal?
anyone tried xigmaNAS? freeBSD based again at least.
Unraid looks okay, but paywall?
open media vault?
any advice or discussion is appreciated!
Not practical advice, but since you’re throwing out alternatives, one that I’ve had my eye on is hexOS.
It’s a trueNAS scale (fork?) by a bunch of ex-unraid devs with the goal of making trueNAS as easy as unraid.
It still has a few more months of beta, though, so I haven’t tried it. Also, like unraid, it has a paywall.
heck if i had enough money for paywalls, i’d be donating to: shit i was typing up a whole list before realizing i was basically just announcing my attack surface to the webz.
suffice to say i’d deffa be throwing the open source devs some love!
Yeah fair.
It’s also kinda a fuzzy area, because some of their code is open source, but not all.
And iirc they’re partly funded by the folks who make trueNAS, but supporting a project supported by open-source folks isn’t the same as supporting open-source folks themselves.
I figured it toss it out there anyways though.