16 containers on 2 cores: what my ZimaBlade home server actually uses
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People ask if a little box like a ZimaBlade can really run a homelab. Mine runs 16 containers on a dual-core Celeron N3350 from 2016. So I measured what each one actually uses. The box: 2 cores (1.1 GHz, boosts to 2.4), 16 GB of RAM, two 6 TB IronWolf drives on SATA. It had been up 17 days when I t…
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16 containers on 2 cores: what my ZimaBlade home server actually uses