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Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Kagathara@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (17 children)

It's better than google but It's not good. Only options is self hosted searxng

[–] Vexz@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Been using a self hosted instance of SearXNG but recently went away from SearXNG in gerneral. Why? Search results more than often enough ended in timeouts from the search engines. It was frustrating and they never fixed it. In terms of privacy it's top notch though.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I went away from it because it seemed to have a memory leak and the docker container would eventually crash. I never truly investigated what was causing it.

I've been meaning to give whoogle a try:

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

[–] DocBarkowitz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, my instance has been rock solid. When did you give it a try?

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

It was probably about a year ago now, so I probably should spin it up again. I think I'll do that today.

How much RAM does yours use?

[–] DocBarkowitz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m mobile for the holiday right now, I’m not 100% sure on utilization. But it’s running on a 2 core 4 GB Ubuntu machine along with Caddy and Redis. I also have a Lemmy instance on that same machine so Lemmy, Lemmy-UI, Postgres, and pictr all fit on that machine and work for my daily use.

I can get exact utilization later tonight.

[–] DocBarkowitz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

docker stats --no-stream
CONTAINER ID   NAME               CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT    MEM %     NET I/O           BLOCK I/O         PIDS
dd2a774ad1a6   lemmy_lemmy-ui_1   0.00%     42.5MiB / 3.82GiB    1.09%     418kB / 7.24MB    2.65MB / 0B       15
718629b5514f   lemmy_lemmy_1      0.03%     6.82MiB / 3.82GiB    0.17%     1.52MB / 1.48MB   864kB / 0B        5
0c944dccc1e1   lemmy_postfix_1    0.00%     4.762MiB / 3.82GiB   0.12%     3.74kB / 0B       0B / 762kB        7
7f939790561c   lemmy_postgres_1   0.00%     46.45MiB / 3.82GiB   1.19%     1.09MB / 1.44MB   24.6kB / 2.16MB   9
14c7db5ae7ec   lemmy_pictrs_1     0.08%     23.36MiB / 690MiB    3.39%     3.81kB / 0B       0B / 0B           13
3695b8a0b67a   caddy              0.00%     9.984MiB / 3.82GiB   0.26%     0B / 0B           34.1MB / 12.3kB   9
12c8bd7c1cdf   redis              0.21%     3.555MiB / 3.82GiB   0.09%     101kB / 78.8kB    7.06MB / 0B       5
f03c3298de46   searxng            0.01%     349.9MiB / 3.82GiB   8.94%     9.21MB / 3.82MB   61.4MB / 61.4kB   25

I guess it is the largest consumer of memory. Unfortunately I rebooted yesterday, while setting up lemmy I noticed there was a decent amount of OS security updates. Otherwise I probably would have had stats from like 6 months of uptime. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it balloons.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for reporting back on it.

Yeah, even that, I just don't understand why a search engine, sitting idle, consumes that much memory. The largest consumers of memory for me are: Omada Controller, Airsonic-Advanced, HomeAssistant, Lidarr, Sonarr, Paperless... all things that process a lot of data, or are written in Java, so it's to be expected they use more resources.

I would see it grow to 600MB+ and occasionally crash, so I just decided to use public instances.

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