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!
I’m not sure what it is, but Scale has never thrilled me. I’ve tested it a couple times and I just didn’t get along well with it. I’ve tested know Jim Salter (practicalzfs.com) has frequently recommended XigmaNAS as a strong (albeit less pretty) alternative to TrueNAS. I did some tests with that as well and it seemed perfectly fine. In the end I decided that when I migrate off of Core this winter, it’ll be to a bare metal FreeBSD system. I’m using it as an excuse to better learn that ecosystem and to bone up on ansible, which I’m using to define all of my settings.