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[Completed] Updating to 0.18.4 (lemmy.villa-straylight.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Lemmy 0.18.4 has been released. You can see the official release announcement here. This one's a small one so should go smoothly. As usual, we'll update at 04:00 UTC tonight.

Edit: Completed successfully as expected. Unfortunately we did have a significant downtime just before the update due to the serve running out of memory. This was partially an odd coincidence and partly my fault. I had noticed that we were getting very near being out of memory, but expected the server would hold out until we rebooted during the maintenance window tonight. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Lemmy does gradually eat memory over time and requires periodic restarts, but the frequency seems rather variable. I never had restart the server for the entire time we were running on 0.18.2, while 0.18.3 needed a restart after just a handful of days of operation. Most significantly, this incident revealed that some of my monitoring tools aren't reporting correctly. I'll be working on improving that in the future. I may also institute a periodic server restart as well. As long as I only have to restart Lemmy and not the entire server, this should be quick enough that no one will really notice.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This comment contains positive vibes.

No, you can't see them, they're already on the server by the time you read it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey guys. Cool instance you have here, looking forward to watching it grow. I haven't yet read Neuromancer but I'll get right on it ๐Ÿ˜

Nice fast upgrade, thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, the comment fix is a nice one.

As always, thank you for keeping the thing up-to-date! ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Glad it went smoothly enough! Thank you again!

Lemmy.world said they had to restart every 30 minutes due to RAM usage, but they're one of the largest instances. There were also some memory consumption improvements in the earlier versions. Let's hope it will get fixed some time, restarting every few days is not normal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good luck! Thank you for running this instance!