Atom ion 330 on Truenas Scale RAM usage

TrueNAS General
1

Hello folks!
I’m the proud user of a homemade Nas and it works from 10 years with no probs!
Now I’ve upgraded from Core to Scale and it works as well but… I can’t bypass the 2gb Ram limits of ASRock Atom 330Ion and some apps breaks down or are incredibly slow

Something’s missing me: that limits is for windows 32 only or…

I tried to check on bios but nothing resolved!

Any idea?

Thanks in advance

2

holy jesus, you’re very well below the minimum system requirements for current scale and core versions, i’m surprised your sytem is even working with apps.
The current minimum ram requirement for basic nas usage without apps is 8GB and 16GB for apps usage.

1 Like
3

My TrueNAS Scale system uses c. 4GB alone for base TrueNAS services, and you really do need some amount of ZFS ARC, so IMO actually getting it to run at all on only 2GB is an achievement, but I would then imagine that it is reasonably slow and possibly relatively unstable.

There are anecdotes on here and Reddit of people running out of memory and getting pool corruption as a consequence. In theory it probably shouldn’t happen, but apparently in reality it does.

Get a new MB with more memory before something bad happens.

1 Like
4

Thanks, change MB is the last chance.
You know: if it works and you change something surely it will don’t works as before…

5

Wow, that’s a blast from the past. I remember buying Asrock’s UFF box to run Kodi on like 16 years ago.

Not sure how you’re going to effectively run Scale with only 2GB RAM.

   670.02 Mb /usr/bin/dockerd 
   631.48 Mb middlewared 
   204.33 Mb /usr/bin/containerd 
   534.78 Mb /usr/sbin/netdata

I have about 14 apps running and just the processes needed to run a few of the core things in Scale take up 2GB.

6

A quick look online suggests that the Asrock Atom 330 comes with 2GB memory and can support 2x 2GB memory sticks for 4GB total.

This is (obviously) better than 2GB but really not enough to run SCALE.

7

Yes, it support 4gb (and I’m running on it) but effective use is lower (due to Win32 limitations)

I know, another MB is obviously the solution but I’m scared to change this amazing MB (stable, just 42 W/h, well equipped). The only choice I’ve found is Asus Prime N100I: any opinion or feedback?

Thanks guys