The high CPU issue that is causing midwest.social to slow way down and timeout on HTTP requests is still a mystery to me. But, it seems to do it less often and for less time now.

Here is CPU usage over 24 hours:

It’s a bunch of SELECT statements in Postgres that all seem to fire at one time and take a while to complete as a batch. I’ve inspected the logs and haven’t seen anything unusual. Just stuff federating and posts receiving upvotes.

  • Have you reached out to anyone else who runs a Lemmy server and seen if they are also experiencing this?

    Do you think it is a bottlekneck or just due to large updates from other servers?

      • Not familiar with hosting these servers at all but is there anything seemingly up with the DB? Large table or DB sizes?

        If you want to dump the logs somewhere I can try to take a look. I work in IT as my day job so no promises but I can at least feel my way around if you would like the help. Know this is all out of your own time.