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Ongoing Site Maintenance Update - Testing paused while things catch up.

TLDR UPDATE: Lemmy.world is ~9hrs behind and catching back up. We won't be making any more changes until this is completed.

Original Post:

Please be aware that we are undergoing some maintenance and configuration testing with our host. Instance performance may be a little unstable.

As some of you may know we've been troubleshooting sync issues with several instances but mainly lemmy.world. After a week of experimenting we were able to get everything caught back up and we are now working to optimize instance performance in a way that maintains the sync. The short explanation is that lemmy.world is running an older version of Lemmy that only processes about half the information an instance on a more modern build of Lemmy does per exchange. This leads to a problem where you must be able to match the sending rate of the largest instance or else they fall out of sync and eventually cause more problems as it falls further behind.

There may be a couple of extended restarts over the next couple days as we adjust and readjust to get things right. As always feel free to report any problems here or via DM. Your patience is always greatly appreciated, thank you.

4 comments

  • Today's update -

    After a promising start yesterday we continued to fall back behind lemmy.world. The resources have been adjusted back to the maximum our host can offer while we catch back up with world before trying any new configurations.

    Sorry for the up and down performance. We're working on it.

  • Apologies for the reboots today. We've had to adjust more than anticipated and it's being done in small increments to allow for monitoring. We're making progress!

  • After catching up over night we're falling out of sync with lemmy.world again today as their activity level picks up. We've increased the available resources and will be monitoring it today to see if any additional adjustments are needed.

  • Testing is going well.

    After a somewhat intentional loss of sync things have been readjusted a couple times and everything is pointing the right way again. We are hopeful the current configuration will work long term and we don't have to adjust any more for a bit.

    lemmy.world is just over an hour out of sync at the time of posting and should continue to catch up over the next few hours. I don't anticipate any further restarts during that time unless more adjustments have to be made.