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 @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.

  • Tontoz@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Really like seeing posts like this that explain what’s going on. Thanks for all the hard work!

      • gfdoto@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Seeing this post immediately made my ditch my neglected Lemmy instance to sign up for an account on this server. Thanks for the hard work.

    • lenninscjay@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      agreed. as others have stated. Transparency. But also, new software, new tech (in a way, the fediverse/activity pub), and hopefully a new beginning. Happy to be here. If not technically on the ground level (lemmy has been around for a short time before we knew reddit was going to implode), close to it!

    • infotainment@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It seemed to work fine at first, but starting today I’m noticing a huge number of async failures; I’ve had to refresh the page in order to get almost anything (comments, posts, communities, list of communities, profiles, etc) to load.

    • guyman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep. So much lag, lots of ‘network error’ in Jerboa.

      Never change, free software </3

  • F3F3N@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    A bit off topic, but does anyone else hate how when you click on a post and then go back, the page auto-resets to the top? Wish it would remember how far down you scrolled and return to that point.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      How so?

      Admin communicating information about the site to users like genuine human beings, instead of the corporate-sanitized pablum reddit admins speak in? Yeah that’s refreshing.

  • Anaralah_Belore223@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    The update is good. Just needs more troubleshooting

    Trying to edit this comment

    Editing took between 4 to 11 seconds. on https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld

    Meanwhile, on other communities… 0.5 to 1 seconds

  • flamekhan@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Huge thanks to the lemmy.world team over the last couple of days to scale and maintain the instance! There’s a link for donating on the sidebar for lemmy.world - just a couple bucks a month can help us support this instance!

  • Zana@va11halla.bar
    2·
    1 year ago

    Good work upgrading! I can’t imagine it being too easy with a big instance.

    I had issues with comments not federating to my own instance before this update (showing 0 for hours). Opening up this up now showed most of them right away if not all. Hopefully that means 0.18.1 fixed a fair few issues people had with federation.

  • Aurix@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    When not overloaded the site works better now than ever. But in general this instancen is kind of unusable now as everything is too slow.