Earlier this year I wrote about the day Hercules silently died twice before 4pm. The short version: the Linux OOM killer on the Proxmox host decided the 36GB QEMU process for my main VM was the most expendable thing on the machine, and acted accordingly. Twice. That post covered the
Traefik has one feature that makes it genuinely pleasant to work with: hot-reload. Edit a file in the dynamic/ directory, save it, and within seconds the new routes are live. No restart. No downtime. It’s the kind of thing that makes you feel like you have a proper setup.
On April 19th, 2026, at 05:13 in the morning, Hercules died. Not dramatically — no error page, no graceful shutdown. The Proxmox host simply ran out of physical RAM, panicked quietly, and had the Linux OOM killer murder the largest QEMU process it could find. That was Hercules. 36GB RSS,
In April, Hercules went offline. No warning, no graceful shutdown — just silence. The Proxmox host had run out of physical RAM, the OOM killer had looked around for the fattest process, and found a 36GB QEMU PID with my name on it. The fix was obvious in hindsight: I had
Hercules runs on a Proxmox host. For a while it had 36GB of RAM allocated. That sounded fine — until the Proxmox host ran out of physical memory, the OOM killer looked around for the fattest process, and selected the QEMU process for Hercules. Gone. No warning, no graceful shutdown. Just
Setting up Ghost on a Homelab: The Trust-Proxy Trap and Other Gotchas, Part 1 So, you’ve decided to host Ghost in your homelab. Congratulations! You’re about to embark on a journey filled with thrills, chills, and probably some mild exasperation. But fear not. Like a cat prowling its
If you've ever found yourself wondering how a perfectly peaceful Proxmox environment could suddenly transform into a digital battlefield, you're not alone. Let's dive into the delightful chaos that is the "Out Of Memory" (OOM) killer event, which decided to pay my
Ah, Proxmox. It’s not just a hypervisor; it’s a lifestyle choice. But, like all good things, sometimes it throws a tantrum and takes down half your VMs. Let me regale you with the tale of our recent Proxmox OOM kill incident, a mystery worthy of the finest feline
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