Just a short note to let you know, we upgraded the server to the latest version of Lemmy today. Here are the upgrade notes:
This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.
The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.
In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.
Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Take it for a spin and let me know what you think
I couldn’t even load posts on wefwef or memmy yesterday. All good now though
Does seem to be running much faster
Nice! How is the CPU usage rn?
CPU usage is now averaging less then 20% with spikes to 45%
Nice
@admin yay 🙌🙌
Glad to hear
Did you upgrade because I reminded you
Very wonderful so far!
It has been a rocky road upgrading from the stable Lemmy 17,4 to the various 18.x upgrades.
I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.
But the V18.3 upgrade competed yesterday looks like it is a definite return to stability.
The server stats look good. I have put the system through its paces this morning and all seem to have performed well.
Enjoy.
