My little homelab (Lenovo Thinkpad + Synology NAS) is starting to hit
the wall. My primary workloads are the BBS, running in a 32-bit Windows
VM, and a docker host running PiHole.

PiHole is starting to complain that the load average is starting to
exceed the number of available threads. My CPU has 2 cores, 4 threads.

I'm tempted to find a bare-boned Dell Micro desktop - I could take the
SATA drive and 32GB of RAM out of the thinkpad, and get 8 cores, 8
threads.

I like the fact that most of my homelab was cast-off crap saved from
dumpsters or bought used - being able to keep crap out of landfill while
still serving a valid purpose is nice.



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On 19 Nov 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

My little homelab (Lenovo Thinkpad + Synology NAS) is starting to hit
the wall. My primary workloads are the BBS, running in a 32-bit Windows VM, and a docker host running PiHole.

I like the fact that most of my homelab was cast-off crap saved from dumpsters or bought used - being able to keep crap out of landfill while still serving a valid purpose is nice.

Then save some more crap from the scrap heap and add to this noble project!

--- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS

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k9zw wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Then save some more crap from the scrap heap and add to this noble project!

Waiting for someone to toss out a Thinkpad T480 with a broken screen -
I've got 32 GB of ram that'll fit into it, and they have nice i7s - 4
cores, 8 threads...



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On 19 Nov 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

My little homelab (Lenovo Thinkpad + Synology NAS) is starting to hit
the wall. My primary workloads are the BBS, running in a 32-bit Windows VM, and a docker host running PiHole.

PiHole is starting to complain that the load average is starting to
exceed the number of available threads. My CPU has 2 cores, 4 threads.

I'm tempted to find a bare-boned Dell Micro desktop - I could take the SATA drive and 32GB of RAM out of the thinkpad, and get 8 cores, 8 threads.

I like the fact that most of my homelab was cast-off crap saved from dumpsters or bought used - being able to keep crap out of landfill while still serving a valid purpose is nice.

Sounds like you're getting to the point where a small rack and 1u or 2u server would do you good... perhaps look at getting a used Dell PowerEdge R620 or similar, you can get those dirt cheap on the bay of E's, load it up with disks and memory and you're golden. Install proxmox VE on it and start virtualising all your stuffs =)

Then when you want more, add another and create a cluster so you can do live migrations of vm's and containers to make maintenance easier, and have some redundancy.

This is where things can get really fun!

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