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, @[email protected] 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!
Curious about the server info. Is there more info available somewhere else?
Is lemmy.world running on a single server? What’s the CPU and memory capacity? You mentioned a percentage of CPU usage and an amount for ram, so that made me curious about what’s available for each.
Does restarting take down all services or is the application clustered or not monolithic somehow?
It’s a single server with 32core/64 thread AMD EPYC and 128GB RAM. At the moment we run multiple containers for lemmy so restarting doesn’t mean outage.
Are you running the database on the same server as the backend?
Out of interest what’s the network 95 percentile like over a day? Keep up the great work :-). Thanks for your hard work.