PMG iso/appliance VS LXC (8.2)

beebob

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Greetings,

i run PMG in a dedicated VM for a couple of years already.
Hardware assigned: 4cores and 2GB of RAM.


I recently got the idea of moving it into a LXC Container on one of my Proxmox PVE Hosts.
Silly as i am, i assigned the same hardware ressources as the dedicated VM had.

The container will boot to the login screen, and once i try to login (gui), it freezes.


Solution: add 2 more gig of ram.
The PMG Dashboard tells me that right after login it consumes 3.5 GB of RAM, in a out of the box official template without customziation. After a few minutes it goes down to 2.1 GB of usuage.

My dedicated VM (8.2) uses 1.6 GB of RAM (old and ill configured)


I am rather new to LXC, i was led to believe that those containers are way more lightweight than regular VM's.


Is my expectation wrong or is that a unintended behavior?
 
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