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Lag (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago by Pixlbabble to c/lemmyworld
 

Anyone else getting lag when posting or upvoting? Anything to mitigate this?

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[โ€“] FearTheCron 3 points 1 year ago

Its somewhat related, yes. Each time you do something in the web browser like upvote, that gets sent to your instance (e.g. lemmy.world). Then, the instance needs to update the other instances with that action (this is called publishing the action). Meanwhile, it needs to accept actions from other instances (these are actions that the server is subscribed to). All of these actions take server time and network so there is a queue of actions (think of this as each action standing in line waiting for its turn with the network/cpu).

You can optimize this a lot because each time you open a network connection and send something, there is some cpu and network cost above and beyond the action itself. So there are smart ways to group things together. But, the challenge is that such grouping adds delays (e.g. it may take longer for a moderator's removal of an offending comment to propagate to your server).