Hi guys

As you might noticed, the instance had some stability issues since 05.07.2023. The web service was sometimes unresponsive or not reachable at all. First, i thought it was just a hiccup and the server needed a reboot. But the issue came up some time later.

The resource graph showed very high disk usage, other a long time period - in which the service was not reachable at all. A reboot fixed the issue.

After further investigations, i increased the available RAM and pretty quickly discovered, that the current application is quite a “memory hog”. And the downtime was probably because of swapping.

My goal is to use as many resources as i actually need, to deliver the service, as energy efficient as possible.

I hope the services will run smoother for some time, but rest assured, if more resources are needed, the instance will get it.

For now, i keep an eye on it.

Apologies my feddit.ch lemmings. If you encounter stability or service issues, feel free to contact me.

Edit: Further updates

The issue seems to be know by the bigger lemmy instances and are under constant work to get resolved. I hope for a new stable release pretty soon.

Here’s some info from lemmy.wold Post Update 05.07.2023 Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-04