Status update July 4th

Just wanted to let you know where we are with Lemmy.world.

Issues

As you might have noticed, things still won’t work as desired… we see several issues:

Performance

  • Loading is mostly OK, but sometimes things take forever
  • We (and you) see many 502 errors, resulting in empty pages etc.
  • System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

Bugs

  • Replying to a DM doesn’t seem to work. When hitting reply, you get a box with the original message which you can edit and save (which does nothing)
  • 2FA seems to be a problem for many people. It doesn’t always work as expected.

Troubleshooting

We have many people helping us, with (site) moderation, sysadmin, troubleshooting, advise etc. There currently are 25 people in our Discord, including admins of other servers. In the Sysadmin channel we are with 8 people. We do troubleshooting sessions with these, and sometimes others. One of the Lemmy devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml is also helping with current issues.

So, all is not yet running smoothly as we hoped, but with all this help we’ll surely get there! Also thank you all for the donations, this helps giving the possibility to use the hardware and tools needed to keep Lemmy.world running!

  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    1 year ago

    around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

    25 GB of RAM??? Looks like your instance is the edge case with Lemmy’s scalability, when there’s really big amount of active users. Looks like some problems won’t fade with really high-grade hardware. But I have to appreciate, that’s one gargantuan job!

    • ebits21@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s a premature conclusion. Sounds like a memory leak of some sort.

      Fixed in software.

    • jpgb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had instances with only a dozen or so Wordpress sites that will chew through 8gb and go into swap when certain tasks were poorly scheduled (like a couple of sites clearing their cache at the same time).

      So I’m not surprised they are hitting 25gb but the gradual nature (from the sounds of it) off the memory build up does sound like a leak.

      Don’t envy the devs but I’m sure some of them are enjoying it 😂