Immich•7d ago

immich on low power vps

Hey Guys, can i somehow strip immich for just sharing photos & videos? i have a vps with max 1,2GB free for docker containers.. and if i run immich at it is .. its stuck and freeze cause of mem overload 😄

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Immich•7d ago

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schuhbacca•7d ago

1.2GB Free RAM? Yeah probalby not in that case

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

i mean, i have 1,84 in htop .. but 400-600 free mem would be good xD ok, then i would close this case.. i thought of like shrink something or dont use of some features

schuhbacca•7d ago

Just idling immich on my machine uses 650 mb ram. (Excluding machine learning). As soon as it starts uploading I'm sure that would spike a bit

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

oh so, should i only delete the block of machine-learning then ? that would be a possibility

schuhbacca•7d ago

You can try, but I wouldn't be surprised even without it that once you start uploading some items it will overload your system

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

atm i have ~740M free xD i tried to limit it with "deploy .. and the mem " but it wont start 😄

schuhbacca•7d ago

Yeah it may not start, it may just not be enough to run intial migrations and imports of data and such

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

ahh, i have a problem with redis, i forgot

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND redis
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (node:dns:111:26) {
  errno: -3008,
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'redis'
}
microservices worker exited with code 1
Killing api process

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND redis
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (node:dns:111:26) {
  errno: -3008,
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'redis'
}
microservices worker exited with code 1
Killing api process

but all containers are running without breaking atm

schuhbacca•7d ago

Post your compose and env

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

name: immich
services:
  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends:
    #   file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - '2283:2283'
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      disable: false
    network_mode: url_br

  redis:
    container_name: immich_redis
    image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:8-bookworm@sha256:fea8b3e67b15729d4bb70589eb03367bab9ad1ee89c876f54327fc7c6e618571
    healthcheck:
      test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
    restart: always
    network_mode: url_br
    hostname: redis

  database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0@sha256:c44be5f2871c59362966d71eab4268170eb6f5653c0e6170184e72b38ffdf107
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
      POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
      # Uncomment the DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD' var if your database isn't stored on SSDs
      # DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD'
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the database storage location on your system, edit the value of DB_DATA_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    shm_size: 128mb
    restart: always
    network_mode: url_br

name: immich
services:
  immich-server:
    container_name: immich_server
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
    # extends:
    #   file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
    #   service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - '2283:2283'
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - database
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      disable: false
    network_mode: url_br

  redis:
    container_name: immich_redis
    image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:8-bookworm@sha256:fea8b3e67b15729d4bb70589eb03367bab9ad1ee89c876f54327fc7c6e618571
    healthcheck:
      test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
    restart: always
    network_mode: url_br
    hostname: redis

  database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0@sha256:c44be5f2871c59362966d71eab4268170eb6f5653c0e6170184e72b38ffdf107
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
      POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
      # Uncomment the DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD' var if your database isn't stored on SSDs
      # DB_STORAGE_TYPE: 'HDD'
    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the database storage location on your system, edit the value of DB_DATA_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    shm_size: 128mb
    restart: always
    network_mode: url_br

.env

# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=./library

# The location where your database files are stored. Network shares are not supported for the database
DB_DATA_LOCATION=./postgres

# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=PASSWORD

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=USERNAME
DB_DATABASE_NAME=DBNAME

# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=./library

# The location where your database files are stored. Network shares are not supported for the database
DB_DATA_LOCATION=./postgres

# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC

# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release

# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
# Please use only the characters `A-Za-z0-9`, without special characters or spaces
DB_PASSWORD=PASSWORD

# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=USERNAME
DB_DATABASE_NAME=DBNAME

___ username etc are just placeholder xD i removed both folders for fresh installation

schuhbacca•7d ago

Try removing the hostname. Also the networking stuff. Your server can't reach the redis container

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

but all should be in the same bridge i guess "skipping libmimalloc - path not found /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmimalloc.so.2" <- is that important? well, what problem does the bridge has ? 😄 i mean, its starting.. but it should be no difference in the same net bridge 4 core vps -> 100% cpu usage xD

schuhbacca•7d ago

You may be overloading it and stuff is just crashing

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

yea, on my truenas it has maybe 6 cores and idk 10g of ram 😄 but i did have hope that it run on my vps xD

schuhbacca•7d ago

Yeahhhhh I have very little with those specs. As soon as you start doing anything or even start up when it does initial geo import, it may just fail

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

a vps version would be good xD mhh now i have to find a lightweight solution 😄

schuhbacca•7d ago

Why not just host on your personal machine?

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

i dont want to give someone my home ip 😄 i just want a sharing vps for sharing photos or videos with such as the functions of immich (like 1 day 1 week etc..)

schuhbacca•7d ago

I mean there's options if you don't want to do that. AKA route the traffic through your VPS then to your home via a vpn. Or use cloudflare to proxy the traffic. All this to say I doubt there will be a "light" version

KaputtniqueOP•7d ago

maybe it is. i have to search it.. xD but thanks for the good support ❤️ i think we´ll close this thread now

schuhbacca•7d ago

For reference I got your setup working on my machine by adding

REDIS_HOSTNAME=immich_redis
DB_HOSTNAME=immich_postgresn

REDIS_HOSTNAME=immich_redis
DB_HOSTNAME=immich_postgresn

To my env file

KaputtniqueOP•6d ago

yea, but the ressources doesnt be more so.. i have to find a lightweight one for the vps 😄 at home i have a working immich for private stuff 🙂 do u have a network chart or videos where i can see how ? 😄 well, i have another solution which takes very minimal ram

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