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Anyone switched to Debian? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Debian has less complexityand is very stable. It has a nice wiki and a Debian system can run for a few years on unattended upgrades.

Edit: this post was originally about cost savings but that is not really a useful metric

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Define what you mean by "overhead"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Mostly RAM usage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Debian uses like 200MBs of ram for a basic fresh install. That's negligible.

Unless you're deploying 500 virtual machines on a single server, that all run a single simple basic task the base ram usage of the OS shouldn't even be a factor.

[–] fuzzzerd 1 points 9 months ago

I think this is a fairly common use case. Maybe not the most common, but I've definitely seen this at multiple shops.

Density of RAM on hosts is often a limiting factor for scaling. Not every app is CPU hungry. Some just need to be available, and running a whole is for isolation is the way it's done in a lot of shops.

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