How does lemmy.ml handle the Reddit hug of death? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by suspended@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm the sysadmin for beehaw.org and our user-base has almost tripled in 24 hours. Our site has been crashing so much over this time period.

We do have some volunteers that are trying to figure out a reasonable solution for when this happens again four weeks from now.

Do you have any recommendations?

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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

So far there are no major problems. Disk was filling up but probably unrelated. I guess beehaw grew a lot more in terms of percentage than lemmy.ml during this time.

The main things I can think of which might help are to increase database pool size (in config file) and number of federation workers (/admin). Also create a swapfile if you are running low on RAM.

[-] suspended@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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