21 Jun
2023
21 Jun
'23
4:51 p.m.
On 2023-06-21 14:09+0100, Alan Pope via BitFolk Users wrote:
It has only around 30 active users, more registered,
but many are
idle.
It's currently using 172GB disk space, 11GB RAM, 7GB swap and the 8 core
CPU hovers around 20-30% most of the time.
Average traffic is 1.5Mbit/s all day.
I have enabled elasticsearch which chews quite a bit of RAM.
I'm relaying with a couple of other instances, which account for half the
bandwidth use.
How many Mastodon users are there globally? It sounds like it wouldn't
run on a laptop without mains for a long time...
Don't want to seem too negative as there aren't many alternatives. It
sounds terrible for global warming though - there has to be a
alternative than this.
Is it just the search that takes up memory? Where's the 20-30% of the
CPU going, it can't be serving that many requests for that number of
users, or does it burn because of federation? Maybe these are answered
questions already if I just went and looked at their issue tracker...
Ed