The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/IAmOmnificent on 2025-01-17 22:23:03.

Hey guys, so I have a VM setup in Proxmox to handle all my media needs. It runs the following: Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Transmission and Jellyseerr. All the docker images are from LinuxServer except Jellyseerr.

The resources I allocated to the VM are: 4vcpu, 12GB RAM, Intel Arc A310

On idle I am getting about 2.8GB RAM usage for all those services. However, when I start streaming on Jellyfin (~2 streams, both transcoding), the RAM usage spikes up to almost the maximum (some media just 1 stream is enough), causing the VM to be unresponsive at times. The media does play but trying to load another instance of Jellyfin in another browser for example will just load continuously.

Stopping the media streams an leaving it for a bit (~3-5mins) will bring everything back to normal.

I have no idea what is going on and would love to see if anyone else had this issue. My previous media server was running on an old laptop with 6th Gen Intel CPU so the best I could do was get 1 stream up (transcoding) and even that would stress the iGPU. So I didn’t get to this issue. However, given the A310 can handle a good chunk of streams, this issue was unexpected.

Any insights or tips would be great. Cheers!