Running Jellyfin on my old Pentium E5200 (dual core), 4 GiB memory. I use FreeBSD with ZFS, but I use AppJail to manage my FreeBSD containers (>15). It works very well. There is no performance difference between containers and host (at least on FreeBSD): Jellyfin consumes up to 400-500 MiB of memory with a single client, a bit more when some other client wants to play a movie, but in general I use movian on my PS3 or the Jellyfin app on my android device. When I rewind or fast forward the movie it only hangs 1 or 2 seconds depending on network traffic (in general the rate is low) but I think the Jellyfin app or Movian prefetch chunks of the movie and caches it to improve performance a bit. I think the other thing that helps me not to consume a lot of my resources is that my movies are usually of decent quality, but not the best, as they are either classics or too recent to be of decent quality.
I don't test the following because I don't need to, but maybe it can be useful to you:
Running Jellyfin on my old Pentium E5200 (dual core), 4 GiB memory. I use FreeBSD with ZFS, but I use AppJail to manage my FreeBSD containers (>15). It works very well. There is no performance difference between containers and host (at least on FreeBSD): Jellyfin consumes up to 400-500 MiB of memory with a single client, a bit more when some other client wants to play a movie, but in general I use movian on my PS3 or the Jellyfin app on my android device. When I rewind or fast forward the movie it only hangs 1 or 2 seconds depending on network traffic (in general the rate is low) but I think the Jellyfin app or Movian prefetch chunks of the movie and caches it to improve performance a bit. I think the other thing that helps me not to consume a lot of my resources is that my movies are usually of decent quality, but not the best, as they are either classics or too recent to be of decent quality.
I don't test the following because I don't need to, but maybe it can be useful to you: