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Lemmy.ca will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from approximately 12:00 - 12:30 PT (3:00 - 3:30 ET), while we move to a more powerful server.

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

Disk, due to low memory. Not enough to keep enough of the db in memory, and having to hit disk for pictures as well.

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

Oh I see. Makes sense. Do you know if the storage was NVMe previously or spinning media?

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

It was a VPS and I think on some sort of shared SATA/SAS SSD array, just going off the 300-800MB/s reads I was seeing.

Old box: Timing buffered disk reads: 2066 MB in 3.00 seconds = 687.62 MB/sec

New box: Timing buffered disk reads: 1022 MB in 0.31 seconds = 3338.77 MB/sec

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

Nice uplift. Random IO which is likely what the db does are probably through the roof compared to the sequential uplift.

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

The DB is small enough it's all in ram now, seeing a 100% cache hit rate in postgres.

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

Nice. You could post any screenshots and copy-pasta if you collect them anyways from stuff you find interesting while working on the instance. I'm sure there's a lot of technical folks around here other than us that would find it fun to look at. Only if it's not significant additional work of course. 😁