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Clonezilla puxando total memoria para cache

2025-07-23
2025-08-05
  • Ariel Rossa

    Ariel Rossa - 2025-07-23

    Good evening!

    I'm experiencing an issue with Clonezilla Server. I've created a VM on Proxmox and installed Clonezilla Server to perform network-based cloning. However, every time I restore an image via PXE, the system uses nearly all available RAM for disk caching.

    While this behavior is normal in Linux (due to page cache usage), it's affecting performance in environments with limited memory. I would appreciate guidance on how to optimize memory usage and limit this caching during the restore process.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2025-07-29

    So when was the performance affected? When the image was saved?
    How did you run Clonezilla SE? The client is using NFS to save the image? Or you use the samba service from Proxmox?

     
  • Ariel Rossa

    Ariel Rossa - 2025-07-31

    Bom dia Steven,

    Conforme os testes realizados, confirmo que o comportamento não afeta o desempenho do servidor – em ambos os cenários, o sistema performou dentro do esperado.

    No entanto, observei um padrão diferente no uso do cache: enquanto no servidor ele utiliza toda a memória livre, no meu desktop esse comportamento não se repete. Apesar disso, como não há impacto na performance, entendo que seja uma particularidade da configuração ou do workload do servidor.

    Se houver qualquer preocupação adicional ou necessidade de verificação mais aprofundada, fico à disposição para investigarmos juntos.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2025-08-05

    "However, I observed a different pattern in cache usage: while on the server it uses all available memory, this behavior does not repeat itself on my desktop. Despite this, since there is no performance impact, I understand this to be a specific feature of the server's configuration or workload." -> So this should be a bug for your server's package. Maybe an update will fix it?

     

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