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Jellyfin
v1.0.0Load
Up to 10 users, ~5,000 movies and episodes, 4 streams at once with up to two 1080p SDR transcodes on the CPU; ~200 new items a month.
Options
No options change this app's resources.
Recommended resources
App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.
vCPU 5.52, RAM 5.7 GiB, Disk 76.015 GiB
vCPU5.52
RAM5.7GiB
Disk76.015GiB
Breakdown
| Line | From | vCPU | RAM (GiB) | Disk (GiB) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jellyfin | Jellyfin (server, web client and FFmpeg) · Medium load | 4.5 | 3.5 | 58 | 123415 |
| System baseline | Operating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 1 containers | 0.1 | 1.25 | 8.1 | 67891011 |
| Safety headroom | vCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline | 0.92 | 0.95 | 9.915 | 127131014 |
| Recommended total | 5.52 | 5.7 | 76.015 |
Sources
- Jellyfin Docs: Hardware selection (8 GB RAM, 4 GB on headless Linux; 100 GB SSD; cache = largest file × streams; GPU advised; SSE4.1 since 10.11; not for direct exposure) (Jellyfin, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Jellyfin Docs: Transcoding (direct play puts almost no load on the server; remux, direct stream and transcode in rising order; software HDR tone-mapping may not reach real time) (Jellyfin, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Jellyfin blog: Jellyfin 10.11.0 (library DB to EF Core jellyfin.db, migrations up to hours; from 10.10.7; no 32-bit ARM; metadata cached in RAM up to DB size; built-in backup) (Jellyfin, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Registry manifest and config of jellyfin/jellyfin:12.2.20261005-225228 (linux/amd64): 753,959,538 B compressed; no User; Healthcheck every 30 s, start period 10 s (Jellyfin, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Jellyfin Docs: Storage (database of a moderate library 10 to 100 GB; transcodes about the source size; database off network storage; offline media can be dropped) (Jellyfin, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
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