I have a few queries regarding the backend of lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a post on [email protected] but it was not getting any responses so decided to ask here where people have experience in hosting lemmy instances.

I am not sure how cross-posting works here so I'm just going to paste the link to the original post https://lemm.ee/post/24869.

The main query I have is how is data partitioned over instances when I'm participating in communities in other instances.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That clears things up a bit.

So all text and metadata is kind of replicated but "heavier" stuff only resides on the original instance.

Your instance will store a cache of all the subscribed communities

I'm assuming more the number of communities, more the instance has to periodically probe and retrieve cache updates. Hopefully these are just deltas, so the updates are small.

However, for large instances, these periodic updates can become resource-hungry activities

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, accidentally deleted my post instead of editing, oops.

It will have more work to do to keep a larger number of communties in sync however that part is actually pretty efficient. It sends just the bare minimum data in a json like format. If you have an instance you can watch the log and see them ticking along, getting and posting.

The majority of system load is from the UI. Database query's to build a users home page and feeds. At least all those query's will hit the local instances cache and spread out the load.

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