So, I recently discovered that the SSDs in my homeserver could self-encrypt, and after using sedutil I had full disk encryption that was independent of the OS. Because of that, the last and biggest thing holding me back from switching to #SmartOS was solved (Full Disk Encryption). So now i'm migrating all my stuff from my jury-rigged linux server to it.
So far, it's been as simple as dding image files into a zfs volume, and using the awesome tools that comes with SmartOS.
Hopefully this solves my OOM problems. I got:
- vm.panic_on_oom enabled, so hopefully when I run out of memory, it just kills the VM instead of hanging.
- #Earlyoom installed so it never comes to that.
- #Zram enabled to get just a little more out of it.
I want to avoid uping the VM's ram as long as I can lol