Ideal Memory for unRAID

[Socrates]

I am running unRAID on ESXi. the host has 128GB memory, however I have allocated 8GB to the unRAID VM.

Will allocating more VM help the environment in any way? Like building parity faster.. ? Currently I dont see any lag on unRAID server, nor do i see anything running slow. Grafana Stats for memory shows the unraid vm has never used memory beyond 60-70% in the past 3 months. However it did touch 100% and was throttling initially when i was building parity and was copying data from my previous raid server.

 

So I know unRAID's recommendation for memory is maxed out at 32GB.. but in my case i already have 128GB memory, and can make use of some on the unRAID server vm, do u recommend me to bump up the memory? Any benefit in the future?

[uldise]

like other Linux, unraid uses all available memory as a cache too. so, what are other apps you are running on your unraid?

[Socrates]

7 minutes ago, uldise said:

like other Linux, unraid uses all available memory as a cache too. so, what are other apps you are running on your unraid?

I am running Plex, Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, NextCloud, HDDTemp right now, its a new setup.. So I am still exploring around. I am gonna go look for the thread here on the forum to see what other goodies people use on unraid.

I dont plan to host virtual machines on the server, as i would rather prefer them to be hosted on the esxi server directly.

[uldise]

then i think 8GB is very good amount to start. you can assign more at any time. and 32GB limit is no true, you can go much higher if you want..

[Socrates]

3 minutes ago, uldise said:

then i think 8GB is very good amount to start. you can assign more at any time. and 32GB limit is no true, you can go much higher if you want..

Cool thank you.