I've decided to schedule nightly restarts of the lemmy backend, which seems to be all that's necessary to free the RAM. Now we are on 0.19 there is a persistent federation queue, so a restart no longer causes all in-progress federation to be lost.

I've scheduled it for 3am NZ time, when the least amount of people will be online. Hopefully this solves it!

[–] liv 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Noted. Hey thanks for all you do! I really like lemmy.nz.

[–] Dave 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome! I certainly have a new appreciation for sites that seem to never have downtime 😆

[–] liv 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah doing something like that really changes your perspective on what the hard parts are aye.

[–] Albatr0ss@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Seconded!

[–] Ozymati 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the update, and the effort you put into this.

[–] Ozymati 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't have a problem with people who walk slowly but I'm feeling stabby about the ones who do it with no situational awareness. Why are people so oblivious?

[–] liv 3 points 9 months ago

Idk. I think with some it's hubris, but there's always an outside chance that it's someone with a splitting migraine that's stopping them from thinking straight, etc.

[–] thevoyagekayaking 2 points 9 months ago

The worst one is the "meat wall", where there's a whole group of them.