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.

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

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        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.

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      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!

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      I decided to create a user to show my appreciation for these types of updates. Love it. Hope to engage more with this thing now moving forward - let’s get this going 👍

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    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.

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    For everyone experiences issues during the login,

    This is caused by an issue in the latest RC of the Lemmy UI. It’s already been reported, and ruud will probably decide how to deal with it tomorrow.

    The current workaround
    Make sure you are on the main page (https://lemmy.world) and not looking at any posts or something like that before hitting the login button.
    If you encounter other issues, please make sure to clear the browser cache. The latest upgrade also made changes to the API, which can cause issues with the cached version of the website.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1740

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    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!

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      I’ve been on Lemmy for… four days? The traffic influx made the past 24hrs the least smooth it has been in my short stay so far, lol. The upgrade to 0.18 definitely did help though.

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      It still isn’t working for me, it is stuck in Local Active and can’t change filters. Probably something else though, no server version error now. I have been using Connect for Lemmy, which I’d never heard of but came up in the play store search. Seems to work fine, it’s some real early access out here!

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          I should have given that a try, clearing the cache hadn’t worked, but the reinstall did. Thanks =)

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        Don’t forget to checkout Liftoff and Thunder, they are phenomenal Android apps. Also, both Boost and Sync are going to be launching early versions of their Lemmy apps soon!

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    So some strange behaviour: When I pressed the upvote arrows in 0.17.4, it’d immediately show this in the UI. Right now, it does not. The response appears quite slow. Is this a function of 0.18.1-rc or a function of the traffic of the Reddit-fugees?

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    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.