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Discovered why my Friendica server has an occasional massive load spike for several minutes: it’s running out of physical RAM and thrashing the swap.

Machine it’s on only has 2 gigs. I have an old 2015 MacBook Pro that is in a very dilapidated state, but it works perfectly as an Ubuntu server.

Will migrate to that. It has 8 gigs of RAM. That should be plenty.

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Update after a few days on the new machine: an 8 year old knackered MacBook Pro repurposed as an Ubuntu box makes an utterly amazing fediverse server.

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I think my mbp is from 2009 and it's doing quite well as a Ubuntu Desktop. Unfortunately I can't upgrade to the most recent Linux kernel as Nvidia no longer provides upgraded drivers for the graphics card. Oh well. It may eventually run as a server as well.
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Good question. I also run a Raspberry Pi 4 as one of my desktops so I'll have to check.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle! Yay!

And lower power requirements as well?