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In preparation for the Reddit June 12-14 Black-out (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TheDude@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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As the reddit mods gets ready for the June 12-14 black-out, there some anticipation that an influx in user base will shift over to many of the lemmy instances as user seek out a home to post their internet memes and discuss their interests.

In anticipation of this increased volume I will be growing our current instance from

16 CPU
8 GB ram

24 CPU
64 GB ram

This server is currently equipped with SSDs that are configured in a raid 10 array (NVMEs will come in the next gen that get deployed)

Earlier today I also configured some monitoring that I'll be watching closely in order to have a better understanding on how the lemmy platform does under stress (for science!)

I'll be sharing graphs and some other insights in this thread for everyone that is interested. Feel free to ask anything you might be interested in knowing more of!

EDIT: I'll be posting and updating the graphs in this main post periodically! Last updated: 6:21AM ET June 12th

CPU - 48 hours

Memory - 48 hours

Network - 48 hours

Load Average - 48 hours

System Disk I/O - 48 hours

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[–] PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can this thing run on a Pi clone with 4GB RAM and 4 cores?

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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So the r/lemmymigration mod got his account unbanned from reddit, and it seems he might be willing to put together a currated and updated list of lemmy instances that are willing to host new users. Just in case that is something you would be interested in participating in, here is his comment on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14316ai/the_guy_that_got_permanently_suspended_for/jn7k56l/

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[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You may want to check this out: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2654

They are working on fixes, but they will certainly not be ready by the 12th

[–] Jumuta@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

wow, that's much more hardware than I thought.

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It probably doesn't need that much but I'm curious in seeing how much It can handle until it can't I have more resources available but it would make more sense after this size to start separating the different components of Lemmy into their own individual instances across multiple servers instead of trying to scale it vertically. Might require a little more time than I have but I'll see what I can manage!

[–] Jumuta@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

huh, interesting.

How much room is there right now for lemmy to scale horizontally?

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