I have a QNAP TS-253D (Celeron J4125, 4GB RAM) hosting all my files. I used to have Jellyfin running on it in a Docker container, but it performed really poorly (which is expected ig). It used to take forever to stream a 1080p movie, and seeking back and forth would freeze the whole thing.

Then I moved my Jellyfin setup to my desktop PC (i9-10850k, 16GB RAM, 2080 Super), the files are still on my NAS. It performs much better now, streaming is a breeze and it almost never freezes or anything.

Problem is, it eats up all my RAM. My RAM usage is 99% almost all the time someone uses Jellyfin and it significantly hampers my regular work on my desktop. I can upgrade my RAM to 32 or 64 GB, but would that solve the problem?

If not, what is the cheapest mini PC or home setup that I can do that’d free up my desktop but still give me similar or at least good enough performance?

Thank you for your advice.

  • noodleswind@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    running on a single core 2 gig cloud server. just set filter to h264 so there is no transcoding.

    works for me.

    • jerwong@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m doing something similar except now I’m running out of space on my 1 TB volume. Now I need to upgrade and/or figure out a long term solution to convert to H265. Some of my files have file size differences on the scale of 400 MB vs 2 GB.

      • noodleswind@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m doing something similar except now I’m running out of space on my 1 TB volume. Now I need to upgrade and/or figure out a long term solution to convert to H265. Some of my files have file size differences on the scale of 400 MB vs 2 GB.

        run tdarr. schedule it to run at downtime.

      • noodleswind@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        also delete redownloadable media. most of the media i want to watch is downloaded 10 minutes prior. I just leave hard to find media always there.