{
  "id": 11635296,
  "title": "Homelab census: 41 containers, one 6 GB GPU, and where my AI agents run",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/homelab-census-41-containers-one-6-gb-gpu-and-where-my-ai-agents-run",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-03T08:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/c1-anderson/homelab-census-41-containers-one-6-gb-gpu-and-where-my-ai-agents-run-1gec"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On 24 September, a comprehensive census was taken of a homelab setup consisting of four boxes. Across these machines, 41 Docker containers and 9 LXC containers were found to be running. One 6 GB graphics card played a pivotal role in determining where AI tasks were processed. The Proxmox node 1, equipped with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM, hosted 16 Docker containers. Meanwhile, Proxmox node 2, with 4 cores and 16 GB RAM, housed 11 containers. The ZimaBlade, a fanless machine with 2 cores and 16 GB RAM, ran 14 Docker containers. The i7-10875H system, boasting 16 threads, 31 GB RAM, and a 6 GB VRAM RTX 2060 graphics card, hosted Ollama with 21 model tags and ComfyUI, but no containers. This configuration allowed the AI agents to operate efficiently, with the 6 GB VRAM card making the majority of routing decisions for the AI tasks.",
  "summary": "Today I asked my LLM box what it was doing, and it told me it had a 27-billion-parameter model loaded. Total footprint 18.3 GB. Amount of that on the graphics card: 0.5 GB. So the 27B was \"running on the GPU\" in the same sense that I am running a marathon when I walk to the shop. The other 17.8 GB sat in system RAM and did its arithmetic on the CPU, one patient token at a time. That seemed like a…",
  "key_points": [
    "41 Docker and LXC containers running across four homelab boxes",
    "One 6 GB VRAM GPU determines AI task routing",
    "i7-10875H system with 6 GB GPU hosts AI agents"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}