2025-03-10, 06:45 PM
Just to point out, in the Truenas app launcher, "CPUs" is in threads, not cores.
So if you have an 8 core CPU, you have 16 total threads which can be assigned to a container.
As an example, setting CPUs to 8 will assign a total limit of 4 cores (8 threads) to the container.
Also keep in mind that CPUs is a limit, not a forced setting. The container will use less threads when it doesn't need all of them, then use as much up to the limit that you set.
I would also not recommend trying to enable low power encoding on Truenas since Truenas is shipped as an appliance OS. This means that anything you modify outside of the provided GUI will 99% of the time be lost when you update Truenas to a new version (or restore from an OS failure).
This means that if you're serious about enabling low power encoding on Truenas, you will need to do the same steps to enable it in the shell upon each new Truenas update. ix-systems also removes permissions for apt so that newbies don't accidentally brick their system following some random instructions online. You can't use apt until you restore permissions with chmod each Truenas update too.
So if you have an 8 core CPU, you have 16 total threads which can be assigned to a container.
As an example, setting CPUs to 8 will assign a total limit of 4 cores (8 threads) to the container.
Also keep in mind that CPUs is a limit, not a forced setting. The container will use less threads when it doesn't need all of them, then use as much up to the limit that you set.
I would also not recommend trying to enable low power encoding on Truenas since Truenas is shipped as an appliance OS. This means that anything you modify outside of the provided GUI will 99% of the time be lost when you update Truenas to a new version (or restore from an OS failure).
This means that if you're serious about enabling low power encoding on Truenas, you will need to do the same steps to enable it in the shell upon each new Truenas update. ix-systems also removes permissions for apt so that newbies don't accidentally brick their system following some random instructions online. You can't use apt until you restore permissions with chmod each Truenas update too.