Follow-up from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15792108

I’ve spent a ton of hours trying to troubleshoot why lemmy.dbzer0.com is falling behind lemmy.world in federation. We have a good idea where it’s going wrong, but we have no idea why.

The problem is that once I receive an apub sync from l.w and send the request to the lemmy backend, it takes about 1 second to process an apub sync, which is way too long (is should typically be < 100ms).

We had a look at the DB and it was somewhat slow due to syncing commits to disk. OK we disabled that, and now it’s much faster (and less safe but whatever) but the sync times have not improved at all.

I’ve also made a lot of tests to ensure the problem is not coming from my loadbalancers and I am certain I’ve removed them from the equation. The issue is somewhere within the lemmy docker stuff and/or the postgresql DB.

Unfortunately I’m relying solely on other admins help on matrix, and at this point I’m being asked to recompile lemmy from scratch or deploy my own docker container with more debug instructions. Neither of these is within my skillset, so I’m struggling to make progress on this.

In the meantime we’re falling further and further behind in the lemmy.world federation queue, (along with a lot of other instances). To clarify, the problem is not lemmy.world. It takes my instance the same time to receive apub syncs from every other server. It’s just that the other servers don’t have as much traffic so 1/s is enough to keep up. But lemmy.world has so much constant changes, 1/s is not nearly fast enough.

I’m continuing to dig on this as much as I can. But I won’t lie that I could use some help.

I’ll keep you all updated in this thread.

  • db0OPM
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    1110 months ago

    Thanks peeps. I already figured out the docker stuff. What I need is help debugging lemmy internals

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      No help from Lemmy devs ? Sound they would be the only hope. Looks something deep in lemmy, is there a bug report open in their git ? sharing this and solving will help other instances in the future.