Been using a self hosted instance of SearXNG but recently went away from SearXNG in gerneral. Why? Search results more than often enough ended in timeouts from the search engines. It was frustrating and they never fixed it. In terms of privacy it’s top notch though.
I don’t like Whoogle because of their UI for image searches. Imo it’s really bad but that’s just my opinion. The image search is also the reason why I don’t use Brave Search because it redirects you to Google or Bing. What’s the point in being “a privacy respecting search engine” when you get redirected to Google and Bing which are the worst search engines in terms of privacy?
No, I didn’t check because it never got so big to the point where it would become suspicious to me that something might be wrong. Maybe it uses more RAM than other self-hosted search engines but it never leaked memory so it used more and more RAM the longer the instance ran. Just because it uses much RAM it doesn’t mean it’s leaking memory. It might just be developed badly, not very caring about your ressources.
I’m mobile for the holiday right now, I’m not 100% sure on utilization. But it’s running on a 2 core 4 GB Ubuntu machine along with Caddy and Redis. I also have a Lemmy instance on that same machine so Lemmy, Lemmy-UI, Postgres, and pictr all fit on that machine and work for my daily use.
I guess it is the largest consumer of memory. Unfortunately I rebooted yesterday, while setting up lemmy I noticed there was a decent amount of OS security updates. Otherwise I probably would have had stats from like 6 months of uptime. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if it balloons.
It’s better than google but It’s not good. Only options is self hosted searxng
Been using a self hosted instance of SearXNG but recently went away from SearXNG in gerneral. Why? Search results more than often enough ended in timeouts from the search engines. It was frustrating and they never fixed it. In terms of privacy it’s top notch though.
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That’s weird, I never had memory leak problems.
I don’t like Whoogle because of their UI for image searches. Imo it’s really bad but that’s just my opinion. The image search is also the reason why I don’t use Brave Search because it redirects you to Google or Bing. What’s the point in being “a privacy respecting search engine” when you get redirected to Google and Bing which are the worst search engines in terms of privacy?
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None - I deleted it because I don’t use it anymore. It wasn’t much though and it never bloated, even when running for over a whole month.
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No, I didn’t check because it never got so big to the point where it would become suspicious to me that something might be wrong. Maybe it uses more RAM than other self-hosted search engines but it never leaked memory so it used more and more RAM the longer the instance ran. Just because it uses much RAM it doesn’t mean it’s leaking memory. It might just be developed badly, not very caring about your ressources.
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Interesting, my instance has been rock solid. When did you give it a try?
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I’m mobile for the holiday right now, I’m not 100% sure on utilization. But it’s running on a 2 core 4 GB Ubuntu machine along with Caddy and Redis. I also have a Lemmy instance on that same machine so Lemmy, Lemmy-UI, Postgres, and pictr all fit on that machine and work for my daily use.
I can get exact utilization later tonight.
docker stats --no-stream CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS dd2a774ad1a6 lemmy_lemmy-ui_1 0.00% 42.5MiB / 3.82GiB 1.09% 418kB / 7.24MB 2.65MB / 0B 15 718629b5514f lemmy_lemmy_1 0.03% 6.82MiB / 3.82GiB 0.17% 1.52MB / 1.48MB 864kB / 0B 5 0c944dccc1e1 lemmy_postfix_1 0.00% 4.762MiB / 3.82GiB 0.12% 3.74kB / 0B 0B / 762kB 7 7f939790561c lemmy_postgres_1 0.00% 46.45MiB / 3.82GiB 1.19% 1.09MB / 1.44MB 24.6kB / 2.16MB 9 14c7db5ae7ec lemmy_pictrs_1 0.08% 23.36MiB / 690MiB 3.39% 3.81kB / 0B 0B / 0B 13 3695b8a0b67a caddy 0.00% 9.984MiB / 3.82GiB 0.26% 0B / 0B 34.1MB / 12.3kB 9 12c8bd7c1cdf redis 0.21% 3.555MiB / 3.82GiB 0.09% 101kB / 78.8kB 7.06MB / 0B 5 f03c3298de46 searxng 0.01% 349.9MiB / 3.82GiB 8.94% 9.21MB / 3.82MB 61.4MB / 61.4kB 25I guess it is the largest consumer of memory. Unfortunately I rebooted yesterday, while setting up lemmy I noticed there was a decent amount of OS security updates. Otherwise I probably would have had stats from like 6 months of uptime. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if it balloons.
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