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 @stanford@discuss.as200950.com and @sunaurus@lemm.ee 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 @sunaurus@lemm.ee 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 voilà. 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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[–] Cjwi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Am I the only one that just keeps seeing only the same 10 posts on the front page? Almost all about Reddit. Is there just no new content on this app?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy’s sorting logic needs love. This is the first time it’s really been pressure tested with tens of thousands of simultaneous active users. Were learning that the current logic tends to promote content longer than some people like.

If people are still commenting and voting on a 3 day old posts, those post remain promoted.

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Active shows too many old posts for me, but Hot seems to weigh recent posts too heavily, I wish there was an in between

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My guess is that it will get sorted out in the near future. Everyone is complaining about it. First problem to fix was scaling and stability though.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Try different sortings. It used to default to "Active," which tends to show days-old posts. For me, "Hot" or "New" seem pretty good. Before the upgrade, anyway. Dunno if that will be changed.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, it was good for a bit after the first small wave, now more came and it's the topic of interest again. Make sure you're sorting by all and try top>day, not active or hot

Or actually maybe browse top>week for today since most will still be about reddit today

[–] NotMerrittStone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

IIRC, this latest version of the lemmy software does away with the auto-refreshing feed so that may be one reason why you're just seeing those 10 posts. Maybe not though, I've still got a lot to learn about lemmy as well so I could be wrong.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

New comments is a pretty good sort option if you want variation, or TopDay

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Get yourself a list of subscribed communities and stick to that view, and it'll even out. A lot of people here today have Reddit & Twitter on the brain, and everyone is racing to post the same 2-3 stories...