Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-05

Another day, another update.

More troubleshooting was done today. What did we do:

  • Yesterday evening @phiresky@lemmy.world did some SQL troubleshooting with some of the lemmy.world admins. After that, phiresky submitted some PRs to github.
  • @cetra3 created a docker image containing 3PR’s: Disable retry queue, Get follower Inbox Fix, Admin Index Fix
  • We started using this image, and saw a big drop in CPU usage and disk load.
  • We saw thousands of errors per minute in the nginx log for old clients trying to access the websockets (which were removed in 0.18), so we added a return 404 in nginx conf for /api/v3/ws.
  • We updated lemmy-ui from RC7 to RC10 which fixed a lot, among which the issue with replying to DMs
  • We found that the many 502-errors were caused by an issue in Lemmy/markdown-it.actix or whatever, causing nginx to temporarily mark an upstream to be dead. As a workaround we can either 1.) Only use 1 container or 2.) set proxy_next_upstream timeout; in nginx.

Currently we’re running with 1 lemmy container, so the 502-errors are completely gone so far, and because of the fixes in the Lemmy code everything seems to be running smooth. If needed we could spin up a second lemmy container using the proxy_next_upstream timeout; workaround but for now it seems to hold with 1.

Thanks to @phiresky , @cetra3 , @stanford, @db0 , @jelloeater85 , @TragicNotCute for their help!

And not to forget, thanks to @nutomic and @dessalines for their continuing hard work on Lemmy!

And thank you all for your patience, we’ll keep working on it!

Oh, and as bonus, an image (thanks Phiresky!) of the change in bandwidth after implementing the new Lemmy docker image with the PRs.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/166fc6d9-972d-4ff2-aa3a-b2ecbbb90cd5.png

comcreator,

The instance seems to be much better. Posting and commenting is not taking as long and loading times are way better. I hope things can stay this good or even get better.

KonQuesting,
@KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Thanks for the updates! Seeing the details of how you work through these early issues is valuable to those of us thinking of starting an instance.

zikk_transport2,

Can you describe your setup? Single instance or multi-node setup behind load balancer?

ruud,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

1 big server with nginx load balancing to the docker containers running Lemmy

jcg,

Wow I applied these PRs on my server as well, running waaay lighter now. And it seems the federation misses have cleared up! Bravo Lemmy.world team!

ramblechat,

Seems a lot faster today - great work!

giant_smeeg,

Yeah! It’s way faster on mobile

anal_enjoyer,

Love these updates! Love the transparency!

ef9357,

Love the transparency. Thanks to the entire team!

Safeguard77,

Cheers!

karthan,

Glorious, Ruud!

ArrogantAnalyst,

Memmy is great! Been using it since about 2 weeks now. Really feel at home.

MiddleWeigh,
@MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world avatar

I took a SM break for a few days, and it’s running noticeably better today…I think. (:

Thanks a bunch for floating us degenerates.

sma3in,
@sma3in@lemmy.world avatar

good vibes!! thank you for your work

ekZepp,
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar
0235,
@0235@lemmy.world avatar

Appreciate that these updates use the yyyy-mm-dd format :D

Krompus,
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar

Hell yeah. I use YYYY.MM.DD_HH:MM:SS in my filesystem, for screenshots etc, so alphabetical is chronological. :)

DreamlandLividity,

ISO-8601. The only correct format!

DharkStare,

Great job. Everything seems to be working smoothly for me now. The past several days have been a bit rough but now it’s all working.

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