Hello everyone, I have a Raspberry Pi 4B with 2GBs of RAM. I am trying to run all the *arr stack via docker containers(5 or 6 containers) but this causes my Raspberry Pi to lag very much. I could not use any of the stack’s web interface or SSH to the pi during the lag and to fix it I had to reset the pi.

I think it is because I have little RAM but it might also be the power supply because I sometimes get messages for undervoltage.

What do you think is happening and how could I fix it? Do I need to buy a more powerful device?

Thanks in advance.

  • VitabytesDev@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    OK, I am trying to setup a swap partition right now to see if that will improve performance.

    • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You can also just make a swap file, you won’t have to make partition that way

      • picnicolas@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You don’t want a swap file on the SD card as excessive writes will kill it rather quickly.

        • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          4 months ago

          So does a swap partition. I just meant that’s an option as an alternative to it. But now that I think about it, not enough RAM wouldn’t cause performance issues anyway, it would just cause random applications to stop working.

        • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          File and partition get just as many writes. In fact files are better because you can create a second file on a different location and move the swap more easily to try to keep the writes spread across the card.