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Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-04

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Status update July 4th

Just wanted to let you know where we are with Lemmy.world.

Issues

As you might have noticed, things still won’t work as desired… we see several issues:

Performance

  • Loading is mostly OK, but sometimes things take forever
  • We (and you) see many 502 errors, resulting in empty pages etc.
  • System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

Bugs

  • Replying to a DM doesn’t seem to work. When hitting reply, you get a box with the original message which you can edit and save (which does nothing)
  • 2FA seems to be a problem for many people. It doesn’t always work as expected.

Troubleshooting

We have many people helping us, with (site) moderation, sysadmin, troubleshooting, advise etc. There currently are 25 people in our Discord, including admins of other servers. In the Sysadmin channel we are with 8 people. We do troubleshooting sessions with these, and sometimes others. One of the Lemmy devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml is also helping with current issues.

So, all is not yet running smoothly as we hoped, but with all this help we’ll surely get there! Also thank you all for the donations, this helps giving the possibility to use the hardware and tools needed to keep Lemmy.world running!

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czarrie@lemmy.world
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I’m just excited to be back in the Wild West again – all of the big players had bumps, at least this one is working to fix them.

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Today@lemmy.world
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And giving updates!

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G_Wash1776@lemmy.world
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I’d rather have to deal with hiccups and bumps along the way, because the community only grows more each time.

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TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world
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I still remember early reddit days of 502 it went through, 504 try once more.

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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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Early? Haha, reddit still shits the bed regularly

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NippleFarts@lemmy.world
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Yee-haw, mother fuckers.

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Kalcifer@lemmy.world
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That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%

Lemmy has a memory leak? Or, should I say, a “lemmory leak”?

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Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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A pretty bad one at that…

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SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com
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But… but… Rust…

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no banana@lemmy.world
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Rust makes holes and that’s how leaks happen

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donalonzo@lemmy.world
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Rust protects you from segfaulting and trying to access deallocated memory, but doesn’t protect you from just deciding to keep everything in memory. That’s a design choice. The original developers probably didn’t expect such a deluge of users.

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Bad3r@lemmy.one
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Leaking memory is safe

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SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com
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I’m calling it - if there’s actually a memory leak in the Rust code, it’s gonna be the in memory queues because the DB’s iops can’t cope with the number of users.

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grue@lemmy.world
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Lemmy has a memory leak? Or, should I say, a “lemmory leak”?

A lemmory meek, obviously!

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bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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On some of the latest release candidates I think so.

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257m@lemmy.ml
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Wait isn’t lemmy written in rust how do you create a memory leak in rust? Unsafe mode?

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donalonzo@lemmy.world
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let mut memory_leak = Vec::<u8>::new();
loop {
  memory_leak.push(0);
}
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meisme@lemmy.world
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That’s not a memory leak though. That’s just hording memory. Leaked memory is inaccessible.

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Eczpurt@lemmy.world
126 points

Really appreciate all the time and effort you all put in especially while Lemmy is growing so fast. Couldn’t happen without you!

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Shartacus@lemmy.world
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I want this to succeed so badly. I truly feel like it’s going to be sink or swim and will reflect how all enshitification efforts will play out.

Band together now and people see there’s a chance. Fail and we are doomed to corporate greed in every facet of our lives.

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morphballganon@lemmy.world
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Wow. Drama! Chill bruh. They’ll get there. If it takes too long for some, they can switch to other instances.

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Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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That’s just a lemming living up to their name!

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Valmond@lemmy.ml
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I’m here for the drama too!

Fuck the cleanliness of the corporate web.

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Snow-Foxx@lemmy.world
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Thank you so much for your hard work and for fixing everything tirelessly, so that we can waste some time with posting beans and stuff lol.

Seriously, you’re doing a great job <3

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Dangy@lemmy.world
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Great distraction from the collapse

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