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Twenty Containers, Twenty Gigabytes: Running Hercules on a Budget
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,