Question 1

Is NemoClaw stable enough for production use?

Accepted Answer

NemoClaw is alpha software as of March 2026. NVIDIA has been transparent about this. The sandbox, policy engine, and privacy router all work, but they have documented issues that require manual workarounds. Production deployments should budget engineering time for troubleshooting and maintain fallback procedures for sandbox failures. Organizations that accept the alpha status and plan for it are deploying successfully. Those expecting GA-level stability will be frustrated.

Question 2

How much RAM does NemoClaw actually need?

Accepted Answer

The documented minimum is 8 GB. In practice, 16 GB is the comfortable floor for running the gateway, sandbox, and a single agent without local inference. If you add Ollama with a 7B parameter model, plan for 24 GB. For production with multiple concurrent agents, 32 GB with 8 GB swap is our recommendation based on deployments across our client base.

Question 3

Should I use Docker Desktop or Rancher Desktop?

Accepted Answer

Docker Desktop. NemoClaw is tested against Docker Desktop on macOS and Windows. Rancher Desktop introduces proxy conflicts (GitHub #306) and uses a different container runtime configuration. If your organization requires Rancher Desktop for licensing reasons, expect to spend additional time configuring proxy bypass rules and testing connectivity.

Question 4

What should I do when nemoclaw status shows "unhealthy"?

Accepted Answer

Run the diagnostic commands in the toolkit section above, in order. The most common causes are: port conflicts (another service on 8080/8443/6443), Docker socket permissions, OOM kills (check dmesg), and cgroup delegation failures. If nemoclaw logs --component gateway shows nothing useful, the issue is at the infrastructure level, not the application level.

Tag: Linux

NemoClaw Troubleshooting: Every Known Issue and How to Fix It