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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's resource usage? I hear kbin is heavy on RAM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On average, it looks to be less than 2gb of ram at the moment. CPU and RAM usage obviously will go up as I have more users, but it’s not bad at all at the moment. I’ve been pleasantly surprised tbh. I am also completely prepared to scale the server up if I get more users on my instance.

Edit: just a follow up, looks like I can scale my instance to a maximum two ways,
“cpu optimized” up to 48 vCPU and 96gb of ram
“Memory optimized” up to 32 vCPU and 256gb of ram

I’m a long way off of the max though now, my server is only 2 vCPU and 4gb memory for now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm running a lemmy instance and using about 700mb, up from 500mb before I had any users (though I have maybe a dozen active users lmao)

But I'm not using much CPU at all though. 5% average on a 2core VPS VM. 4 gigs as well. I can scale up a bit and still afford it personally. After that Ill have to ask for donations, and if not enough stop registration.

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

The scaling is from my cloud provider, hopefully I won’t have to scale up to the max (looks like it’d be like $1300/mo)

700mb of ram isn’t bad at all. Yeah I’m using like 30% cpu on a 2 core right now. Kbin definitely uses more resources than lemmy but I think it has a lot more going on in the tech stack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looking at the recent Docker Compose commits, kbin should scale horizontally until it hits limits of postgres.

Its a really good candidate for kubernetes, if you deploy on AWS/Azure and use AKS/EKS with Azure Database/RDS you will be able to flexibly scale far beyond those limits.

I have been meaning to learn Helm for ages. This seems a good excuse.

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

Unfortunately I thought I’d be brilliant and run the bare metal version of kbin.