Comment by ohyoutravel
16 hours ago
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.
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.
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).
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.
Do you have WebGL disabled or is WebGL not working?
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/24581
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.
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.