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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by ohyoutravel on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:19AM (#46836916)
I tried this but didn’t have luck. Intel NUC 13 i7 with 16gb ram, Immich in a docker container. Photos on my NAS. The moment I open chrome or Firefox to Immich and get past the onboarding, it just locks up. Maybe 50,000 photos in the library. Disappointing because I really wanted to like it, and have moved pretty much everything else to self hosted.
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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by dddddaviddddd on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:15AM (#46837364)
I host immich inside a Linux VM on FreeBSD, with 6 GB of RAM. Fourth generation Intel processor. The initial jobs to parse metadata took a day or two, but now it’s perfectly snappy and useable.
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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by budding2141 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:33AM (#46837033)
Very strange. I've got roughly 40k photos and Immich runs just fine on i5-6xxx old minipc with 8 gigs of ram. Migrated to Immich a couple of years ago from Photoprism (which was fine as well, I just prefer the UI of Immich).
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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by mmastrac on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:27AM (#46837476)
Do you have WebGL disabled or is WebGL not working?

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/24581

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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by closewith on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:59AM (#46837236)
Our family Immich server has a few hundred thousand photos running in Docker and never gets close to 8GB memory. Maybe submit a bug report if you have the inclination.
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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by tootie on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:01AM (#46837789)
Is it persistent? Thumbnail generation can bog down the server after a giant upload. Mine was frozen after I first set it up but eventually caught up and now works very smoothly.
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Re:My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Ed... by mtsolitary on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:12PM (#46840317)
Check you don’t have a circular import on your NAS. I had similar issues because I had my photos at /nas/photos and my Immich metadata folder configured as a subfolder of that. So it kept reindexing its own metadata.
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