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Eugen Rochko

From 8 cores to 36 cores processing power, let's see how the new database server holds up. Hopefully everything will be much faster from now on, but it should also give me a bit more room to scale horizontally.

159 comments
typeos

@Gargron made a difference for me, thanks 🫂

Dr Mathieu Goux

@Gargron I feel the new speed right away :o Thank you!

Jan

@Gargron Awesome, thank you for the great work :)

Scott BOOm

@Gargron So far so good. Loads up instantly now.

frankbaier

@Gargron Hold onto your ... 😅 cc: @ij - Hopefully you get more free time and more sleep, Eugen. 🙏🏻

piofthings

@Gargron woo hoo! Many thanks for building this platform. I wish I understood how it works earlier! But as they say, better late than never!

Pedro Machado Santa

@Gargron Monstrous. (In any case, seriously considering setting up an instance for me and a small community to ease the load here.) #fediverse #federation

lb1a

@Gargron is it possible to donate to you personally for your time and work? Or for your server bill?

Dr. Pedro Bourbon de Linhaça

@Gargron Tens é de trazer mais gajas pra cá. Isto anda muito fraco em termos de gajas. E depois dá um jeito nas DMs, porque eu não quero ver pilas no feed, ok? Vá, um abraço e boa continuação.

Egbert Schroeer

@Gargron 👌 😍 👏
thanks for all the hard work. Maybe a dumb but does this run in the cloud? If so, what is the setup (curious) and if not, like to learn why not

Sean Heber

@Gargron it was immediately noticeably faster. Good work!

Yrjänä Rankka 🌻

@Gargron Also most DB engines really need a sh*t-ton of RAM. If the DB has to go to disk - even SSD - you’re in a world of pain. Biggest challenge is to balance RAM / CPU. Sometimes need to tweak OS VM paging parms as well. A good DB does its own paging, as these workloads differ greatly from regular processes.

goofnor

@Gargron I am noticing a vast improvement already. Thank you.

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@Gargron Thank You and all die other admins of the #fediverse, for all the Things you all do for FLOSS, decentralisation/federalisation and our resulting steady growing ability to get rid of dependencies from big business and the super rich, as well as governments and well funded power seeking special interest groups!
:mastodon: 💙

Sven A. Schmidt

@Gargron Seems to be making a huge difference 🎉
Keep up the great work!

Josh

@Gargron Thank you 🍻 Instant improvement!

Francisco Santos

@Gargron it's working well and faster now! Thanks mate, time to relax a bit!

Nathan Nelson

@Gargron Awesome, so much quicker. Thank you so much!

Rigo Wenning

@Gargron Kudos that it survived without major crash!

Coprolite9000

@Gargron I assume it's active, 'cause everything feels really speedy again...

(Thanks so much for all you do - and, get some rest!)

Jamie Gaskins

@Gargron These requests are going through sooooo much faster! Thank you! 💯

Kim Mi

@Gargron Nice, thank you very much. Feels noticeably faster 👌

Franziska Köppe | madiko

@Gargron I very much hope, you can sleep now at least for a couple of hours.

Amazing engagement. Chappeau!

derAlff_iot

@Gargron thank you!
Was this maintenance the ground for the lags and slowness this day?

Werner 🌻🕊️

@Gargron It's notable faster. You are doing awesome work 👍 .

fontost

@Gargron well, was very slow, with continues time outs untill a little while ago.
suddenly very, very smooth! good job!

GaryNS

@Gargron Vielen Dank Eugen for your efforts. I'm sure it will be amazing.

lumdam

@Gargron Big improvement. It feels really snappy. Thank you so much for your efforts.

Catfluoride

@Gargron Thanks a lot! What is surprising to me is that it was working on just 8 cores before... Wow!

DarrenKeith

@Gargron Thank You Sir. Happy Wednesday from the Sunshine State. 🌞🍁

Jashan Chittesh

@Gargron Definitely feels a *lot* faster! Thank you for all the hard work!

djoostveen

@Gargron Yes, it is much much better! And it was absolutely necessary. I almost quit because of it. Great step forwards. Thanks.

Till Sawala

@Gargron Thank you 😊

Is there any way we can support you more directly than via patreon.com/mastodon ?

Raul Murciano

@Gargron what a difference! ⚡️your work is much appreciated 🙏 I hope your stress levels can go like 📉 now!

Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎

@Gargron This is awesome! Thanks for adjusting so quickly to the influx of users.

Rythur

@Gargron "Scale horizontally." I like the way you are, man.

Brian Sletten

@Gargron Thank you. Once you recover a bit let us know what can be done to help besides financial donations.

Scott Elias

@Gargron So much smoother and snappier. Well done! 🙏

Colin

@Gargron Thanks for all the hard work. In Mastodon we trust :Blobhaj:

AndyHatesPythagoras

@Gargron as soon as I saw this, the app became much more responsive. Thank you for what you do!!

Jan-Theo Wassink

@Gargron Big improvement in response times. Again, thanks for all your hard work in the past week. 🙏

openinformation

@Gargron with 36 cores I dare to upload some cat pics again 😺 thx!

Persian cats Schmitzi and Buffy sitting in the old scratch post by the window, Buffy above Schmitzi - both staring into the camera, kind of clueless
Regular cat Falafel sitting in a paper bag, staring into the camera attentively
Alpine

@Gargron I'm new here but I love this project. It's not much but I hope it helps

Ruben De Smet

@Gargron Already feels a lot more snappy, great! 🙂

Rob Campbell 🐳

@Gargron this is some proper database processing power. Nicely done.

Roel Willems

@Gargron Happy to hear the update has arrived!

Thanks for all the effort you have (and are) putting in. Thanks!

₿⭕nske

@Gargron thanks for your effort it’s working so much better already :)

DianneVotes💙

@Gargron Thank you! I can tell the difference in my last post. ☺️

Matthias

@Gargron congrats! It had been just 8 cores before and worked until some days ago well. Wow, impressive.

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@Gargron Going faster right now. Thanks Eugen 😄

Jorge Irraizoz :bluecheck:🇺🇦

@Gargron it's good . Put an option to move to federal from community toots, and auto translate to mastodon App in Google play

Mathieu LESNIAK 🇫🇷

@Gargron really feeling improvement when communicating from other instances. Great job !

Ruben P2 🇲🇽

@Gargron that’s exactly what I was going to advice :blobcatcool:

txwikinger

@Gargron in my experience running databases, RAM can make an even bigger difference, or faster drives, depending on the database. Should look for telemetry were the blocks are.

Babu Menos 💬

@Gargron

Fingers crossed! I can also see that some people have moved to smaller instances (me included) to take away a bit of the load (at least that was my reason, can’t speak for others). You tripled your users in a mere four days, that’s a lot to take care of.

Bluewall

@Gargron I'm curious, what type of database do you guys use ? :)

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