Lemmy Server Performance

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lemmy_server uses the Diesel ORM that automatically generates SQL statements. There are serious performance problems in June and July 2023 preventing Lemmy from scaling. Topics include caching, PostgreSQL extensions for troubleshooting, Client/Server Code/SQL Data/server operator apps/sever operator API (performance and storage monitoring), etc.

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De-facto memory leak (lemmy.world)

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

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It looks like the lack of persistent storage for the federated activity queue is leading to instances running out of memory in a matter of hours. See my comment for more details.

Furthermore, this leads to data loss, since there is no other consistency mechanism. I think it might be a high priority issue, taking into account the current momentum behind growth of Lemmy...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for checking.
We don't need full database replication. We are just replicating activities that other servers are subscribed to. So the Comments table, only some of the rows will be "replicated". Not sure if/how CouchBase handles this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Buckets are like databases in traditional relational databases. Here's the doc on how to filter which documents get replicated.

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/replication/intro.html#controlling-which-documents-to-replicate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Normally with XDCR you can specify which documents to replicate out of a bucket. It doesn't have to be the entire bucket. So if you had certain types (comments, upvotes, etc) then only those would sync when the target comes online.

I did check into Apache CouchDB, the open source upstream, and replication is there. We use Enterprise Couchbase at work and it's a dream but there are some tools that I use that only use Apache CouchDB (Inkdrop for example). It's worth looking into.