I currently have 13.5K followers on atomicpoet.org, and I’m running this server on 2GB of RAM. Despite, this, everything is clearly operational and running smoothly.
And if you want to know why this is a big deal, the more followers you have on the Fediverse, the more resources your server needs.
When I was running servers that weren’t Akkoma+Mangane, using this little RAM with this many followers was unthinkable. Mind you, this is one day after my migration happened – so there’s lots more to test!
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Samir Al-Battran
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •usually the issue is how many people are followed and if you use relays
Followers don't need a lot of resources.
If you follow 13k people there would be a much bigger storage requirement (you would get data from each of them)
Andres Jalinton
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I hit the limit when someone with lots of followers boost or reply to my posts because of the CPU.
The main culprit is sidekick and maybe the lack of HW acceleration on SSL due to the ARM architecture.
genewitch
in reply to Andres Jalinton • • •I've been maintaining a misskey server (here) and it's connected to ~10,000 instances with 2.6 million post records. It likes to expand into 16GB of ram then relaxes into about ~8GB. I am fairly certain it would be ok with fewer memories.
My biggest gripe about fediverse is the storage. I have to cull data so i don't have to monkeypatch drive size increases on the hypervisor. median storage is about 300GB give or take.
What's wild is that it was only about 2700 instances in november, but a large mastodon instance imploded and the userbase went everywhere, so as people posted "here i am" i added them, and that ballooned the connected instances.
hooray for open source, i think.
Sarah Brown
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m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
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Putting my reply here as it mentioned Friendica as well, and my two single-user instances are Akkoma and Friendica. I follow about 4-500 people on each and have them connected to 2 relays. Friendica also is connected to Tumblr and Bluesky.
My Akkoma instance, which also runs a bunch of other things, is unnecessarily beefed up for running Akkoma: 2 CPU cores (Intel), almost always on 8% usage unless being boosted by some big-wig, 4gb ram, 80gb drive (on super-fast SSD's, I pay extra for those) which has been constantly 40% used the last year. I expected the drive space to increase over time, especially as some say Akkoma isn't using PostgreSQL optimally, but I guess my configuration of clean-up scripts does the job.
My Friendica instance: 2 CPU cores (ARM), 8gb ram, 50gb drive. CPU is almost always at 5-10% usage, drive is 54% used and it has been ticking up ever so slightly over the years, but I have yet to be worried about it, as I noticed a lot of it is possible to clear out though I don't have it automated in the same way as I have on Akkoma.
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Finner
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I'd be curious to see a data set of the different platforms that could be used to compare system resources of live systems.
How many follows do you have and what kind of storage does that require?
I've shut down my micro.pub instance for now because I haven't been using it much and wasn't doing the maintenance regularly, which led to it filling my hard drive up and killing the system.
Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •@Chris Trottier As I wrote earlier this year:
Someone somewhere out there probably starts their Pleroma instance with:
It's that lightweight.
#Pleroma #C64
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