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I'm self-hosting the docker containers and I noticed the pictrs directory is steadily growing because of the cached images. Does anyone know if it gets cleaned up automatically or are hosters running scripts to clean it up after a certain amount of time? The install guides make no mention of it from what I can find.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, If I can get posts to stay synced up, that will be a good day for me.....

Seriously, federation/sync issues, are not fun.

[–] j4k3 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had lot of issues with lemmy.ml. I just unsubscribed from everything over there since zero comments were federating over to my instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I noticed that they'll show up eventually where "eventually" could be like, 10-12 hours.

I suspect that they're just absolutely slammed to the point they can't actually push the federated content out to subscribers because EVERYONE is subscribing.

Might be an architectural thing due to not having a sufficiently scalable job queue/worker thread infrastructure, or just like, not enough CPU cycles to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hard to say. I don't know if the admins of Lemmy.ml have been public about their issues or not. I know that Lemmy.world hasn't been having the same issues, at least from my perspective. Makes me think it's less an architectural or design problem, but rather a lack of server resources like CPU, as you suggested.

[–] StrayPizza 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that Lemmy.ml has basically maxed out its VPS with its provider, so they’re stuck for the time being, whereas Lemmy.world actually just upgraded its server hardware. Hoping they’ll migrate to a beefier server soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, I've read something similar. Hopefully they're able to get things sorted out soon!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beehaw has been my bigger problem child.

However, tonight it's smooth as butter. Things are syncing, I'm getting alerts.

Could be due to some of the maintenance I did earlier too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've not personally noticed any federation issues with Beehaw on my instance. Glad to hear things are better tonight.