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Self Hosted Lemmy instance comments terribly out of sync? (lucitt.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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Is anybody else running into this problem?

My federated posts are appearing in my timeline quite well, however I've noticed that significant portions of the comment section are not being carried over.

For example, I'll see a post on my instance with 13 comments. I'll click on the fediverse icon to take me to the original source and that has 43 comments. Where did those 30 comments go?

The worst part is, I can't seem to figure out a way to "force sync" or refresh the page to make sure all the comments are carried over. Because of this, I feel like I'm only getting part of the conversation and I'm unable to reply to comments that don't appear on my instance.

Does anybody have any solutions to this problem? It's literally my one huge issue I have with my own instance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully it'll mostly resolve given time. Just like when there was a mass exodus to mastodon, the major thrediverse servers are getting overloaded. This creates delays and it seems even lost messages. From experience I've had messages from fedia.io take anywhere from 20-120 minutes to show up on my mastodon. As admins beef up their servers, but also as excitement tones down and there is less enthusiastic usage, hopefully the problem will resolve for the most part.

I'm not sure what causes messages to be lost forever vs. just delayed. Maybe Kbin or Lemmy aren't quite as robust in that? When mastodon was melting down, messages could take 8+ hours to get through, but they seemed to get through. I think your idea about a resync idea is a great one.

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

Yeah I started on a dinky little server and now it's massive.... mostly seems to be a memleak or something going on though that's causing OOM and a massive CPU spike. Anyone know anything? 4GB of RAM getting eaten for breakfast... just had to up it to 8

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

I'm curious. How many users in that instance? I assume that an instance for a few people don't eat that amount of ram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

About 80 total, but I'd say only a handful are active every day

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

That's not happening on my own instance. Are you sure it's a leak per se? Could just be actual usage from volume.