EuphoricPenguin22

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[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

should know this already. :)

What in the gosh darn condescending non sequitur is that? I have a special kind of dislike for people who, instead of trying to promote learning for anyone and everyone at any stage, instead choose to ridicule people for having missed some trivial detail that has about as much in common with Bash as does COBOL (basically nothing). Web scripting is, unsurprisingly, its own skill, and it's very, surpassingly, extremely, stupendously, and obviously conceivable that someone could have years of Bash experience but only recently started putting around with scripting for things like API access or HTML parsing. But you should know this already. :)

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never remember this happening. Unless the Kazon make a return in S6/S7 (as I haven't finished those yet), the closest thing was the Silver Blood Harry™ (died with the rest of the duplicate ship) or the Deadlock Duplicate Harry™ that replaced the Harry that was killed when attempting to repair a hull breach.

Everyone knows the old rhyme, "Step in a cargo hold, break your back."

I did a reverse image search, and I guess it's by someone named Moosoppart.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just glad that I can resell microphone windscreens as Tribble plushies if I ever need another source of income.

I had no idea FOSS tax software was a thing. Huh. I'll try and play around with it at some point and let you know.

Morton up in here spreading free salt.

I guess these guys are just plain old tools.

Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.

Not if Anna has anything to say about it...

More often than not, people who are passionate about something, such as Linux, take personal offense when someone says something incorrect or offensive about said thing. Oh, and blud is just to call someone a poser.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love this comment so much. "You crossed Linux? Now you've crossed me, blud."

 

I should add that this isn't the first time this has happened, but it is the first time since I reduced the allocation of RAM for PostgreSQL in the configuration file. I swore that that was the problem, but I guess not. It's been almost a full week without any usage spikes or service interruptions of this kind, but all of a sudden, my RAM and CPU are maxing out again at regular intervals. When this occurs, the instance is unreachable until the issue resolves itself, which seemingly takes 5-10 minutes.

The usage spikes only started today out of a seven-day graph; they are far above my idle usage.

I thought the issue was something to do with Lemmy periodically fetching some sort of remote data and slamming the database, which is why I reduced the RAM allocation for PostgreSQL to 1.5 GB instead of the full 2 GB. As you can see in the above graph, my idle resource utilization is really low. Since it's probably cut off from the image, I'll add that my disk utilization is currently 25-30%. Everything seemed to be in order for basically an entire week, but this problem showed up again.

Does anyone know what is causing this? Clearly, something is happening that is loading the server more than usual.

 

Hello,

I started seeing weird spikes in memory usage that result in the instance being unavailable via the web interface or via Jerboa. They seem to happen on a regular interval, although they seemingly only started today again. They don't seem to be correlated with bandwidth, so I'm not really sure what could be causing this. Perhaps someone here has more insight into this. I believe something like this was happening last week, which led me to bump the server specs in the hopes that it would resolve the issue. Now our idle/typical usage isn't anything to be concerned about, but these weird spikes are starting to cause timeouts and outages.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hello, I noticed that my user count started going up much quicker than it should have. We probably have no more than 20-30 people on my instance at most, but the user count is now into the thousands.

Screenshot taken last night

Screenshot taken a few minutes ago

~~I'm not really sure what could be causing this, but it seems like some sort of database issue. I recently upgraded the server plan, since it's a VPS. Perhaps sending the shutdown signal and not manually stopping the Docker container caused PostgreSQL to shit itself. (Yeah, this was probably a bad idea). While I'm a bit rusty, I did have a semester class on SQL that might come in handy. Any ideas on what I should do?~~

~~I suppose it could also be account spammers, so I did try and enable captchas. Unfortunately, email verification is still not an option for me to enable at this point. Assuming this was the issue, is there a way to remove the spam accounts?~~

The captcha did seem to stop the endless tick of the user count, but I'm not sure how we can get rid of the spam accounts.

 

I just used the tool linked here in the documentation to create a Bootstrap theme, but I can't find the folder they're referencing. I've used Ansible to install Lemmy, which is working fine, but I'm not really sure how to handle themes as a result. Do I place them somewhere in my Ansible stuff, or is there that directory somewhere on the server? I found the Docker /volumes/ folder, but the directory names were random strings and not labeled like they supposedly are at the link above.

 

I used the Ansible playbook instructions and got my instance up and running, which is where I'm sending this from now. Still, I was not able to get the SMTP side of things working. Does this whole setup self-host SMTP on the Lemmy instance, or is it something I'll have to sort out externally? I've heard some people have had issues with Digital Ocean on certain ports, which is the VPS provider I'm hosting on, but even other ports I've tried have not worked.

 

Hey all,

Assuming I can get this to go through, how long will my new instance start federating properly? I did the curl tests, and I'm getting back proper JSON. I also see a few posts appearing on my timeline, but things still seem a bit wonky. Also, do I need to ask other instances to add this instance to their allowlist, or will things sort themselves out? I was also under the impression that placing no servers in the allowlist would put the server into "open" mode, which is my goal. Does it work that way?

Thank you,

EuphoricPenguin

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