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Looks like it works.

Edit still see some performance issues. Needs more troubleshooting

Update: Registrations re-opened We encountered a bug where people could not log in, see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3422#issuecomment-1616112264 . As a workaround we opened registrations.

Thanks

First of all, I would like to thank the Lemmy.world team and the 2 admins of other servers @[email protected] and @[email protected] for their help! We did some thorough troubleshooting to get this working!

The upgrade

The upgrade itself isn't too hard. Create a backup, and then change the image names in the docker-compose.yml and restart.

But, like the first 2 tries, after a few minutes the site started getting slow until it stopped responding. Then the troubleshooting started.

The solutions

What I had noticed previously, is that the lemmy container could reach around 1500% CPU usage, above that the site got slow. Which is weird, because the server has 64 threads, so 6400% should be the max. So we tried what @[email protected] had suggested before: we created extra lemmy containers to spread the load. (And extra lemmy-ui containers). And used nginx to load balance between them.

Et voilΓ . That seems to work.

Also, as suggested by him, we start the lemmy containers with the scheduler disabled, and have 1 extra lemmy running with the scheduler enabled, unused for other stuff.

There will be room for improvement, and probably new bugs, but we're very happy lemmy.world is now at 0.18.1-rc. This fixes a lot of bugs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, hopefully this'll fix the auto refreshing new posts on PC! Thanks man ^^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bug I’m running into -

When my mobile browser (Firefox, iOS) language is set to something other than English, not content loads and I am unable to log in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thank you for all you’re doing on this. godspeed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for doing this! The having an instance this big really made the difference for leaving reddit. I really missed jerboa and am glad to have it back as a client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Browser still not working for me. The interface loads but there's no content. Also can't login on browser, after entering user and password and clicking login nothing happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Works with Jerboa again (yay).

Kinda makes sense that multiple containers might scale better. The actual processes within the container may have some limitations in terms of how well they thread etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

U peeps are awesome. πŸ™πŸ™‡

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not gonna lie. This service is way too slow and riddled with way too many bugs. Posting comments is a huge chore as half the time there is some β€œerror”. Comments don’t load half the time.

No one is going to switch from Reddit to this service if it’s going to always be this miserable of an experience. I’d rather bang my head against the wall.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

U peeps are awesome. πŸ™πŸ™‡

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Showing us the true value of horizontal instead of vertical scaling! Kubernetes when?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

U peeps are awesome. πŸ™πŸ™‡

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for everything! Lemmy has never been this fast to navigate

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work πŸ‘πŸ»

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