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Why does the official Lemmy docu say:

Lemmy uses roughly 150 MB of RAM in the default Docker installation. CPU usage is negligible.

whereas the Node.js server alone (dessalines/lemmy-ui container) consumes over 100 MB?

I would have easily ordered a 2 GB VPS in the first place, but I trusted the documentation to be up-to-date.

  • zoey@lemmy.librebun.comEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    Actually looking at ctop… I think they’re only mentioning the lemmy server itself in the docs. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • Stallman@ppb.it.comOP
      3·
      17 hours ago

      It appeared that lemmy-ui also causes random cpu spikes of load ca. 25.0 which made my small VPS unresponsive for a few minutes every few hours.

      I have observed great performance improvement with mlmym but it lacks some basic functionality, so now I’m using Photon and with satisfactory result (btop):

      • Xylight@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Glad to hear Photon has satisfactory performance, the new Svelte 5 version (use tag v2.0.0-rc.5) might even run faster, might want to give that a try.

        • Stallman@ppb.it.comOP
          1·
          5 hours ago

          True, 30M of footprint right now. I also decreased postgres hardware limitations as it was consuming a lot more memory than lemmy-ui. It was probably the culprit of those spikes but I’ll stay with Photon anyway :)