u/Solid-Ad-7365

I run about nine containers on an old i5 mini PC, Proxmox underneath, and it's been fine for a couple years. I added Immich a few months back and now the whole thing crawls every time it runs a face detection pass, with Nextcloud and Home Assistant going sluggish at the same time. I've capped CPU shares in the compose file, which helped a bit but nowhere near enough.

What ended up being the sign that one box wasn't enough anymore?

I spent months on 30L vs 40L and missed the actual variable. Once I committed to sink laundry every third night, four shirts replaced seven and the size question answered itself.

The tradeoff is that it moves the cost from my back to my evenings, and some nights I don't want to spend twenty minutes at a sink.

So where do you land, building the list around a laundry cadence, or picking the cadence that lets you carry what you wanted anyway?