I fiddled with some config settings on Infosec.place and it feels much less sluggish now. I need to get the search engine off the server - that thing hits the server pretty hard

@jerry please do keep us updated on which changes improved performance, if at all. Will be very helpful for other instance admins.

@clemenceau I followed the instructions here: https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/configuration/optimizing_beam/ for dedicated hardware (because it's running on a 16 core, 128GB system bare metal) and that seemed to have helped a lot. It's still noticeably more sluggish than my mastodon instance, which has about 500x more active user accounts.

@jerry oh, that document! I read that one too because beam.smp on my single-user instance was continuously consuming ~50% CPU (I have a 2-core Hetzner VPS). Thankfully the problem went away on its own and hasn’t returned.

RE slugginshness: I’ll keep using Akkoma, but it does seem to have random performance issues — another single-user instance admin I know has BEAM consuming 6.6 gigs of RAM

@clemenceau I don’t understand the sluggishness, but on a system with more cores it does ok. I don’t know how it will scale, though