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Is the Lemmy server still slow for anyone else? I restarted everything but I don’t notice much improvement.
Update: It’s still slow for me. The host gave us more RAM and stuff to see if it’ll settle down. I’m pretty actively keeping an eye on things, so hopefully it clears up.
Still intermittently slow for me. I’m getting frequent HTTP 502 errors and TCP timeouts both of which could trace back to server resource issues but I do wonder if your server is behind a proxy.
A few hours ago they increased shared memory for PostgreSQL. I guess the general RAM increase didn’t include that? Not sure. Things feel faster to me but I’ll give it some time.
Yes, my initial impression is that it is very responsive but we’ll see. Thank you!
They’ve taken multiple steps behind the scenes, most recently right before or after your reply here. I’m not sure what they did, but it had to do with postgresql. I really don’t know what happened recently, as our user count and instance activity hasn’t seen much of an increase. Hopefully just a temporary glitch.
Yeah, it’s weirdly slow, still.
Same here. And on Voyager, the WQ Thread doesn’t seem to be pinned ( it is though on Jerboa, but I cannot post from Jerboa anymore 🤷♂️)
Ah, the pin problem I can fix. I was experimenting with only pinning it as local, but not community. It seems pinning as both is still the way to go, which I already knew, but decided to change anyway 😂
I opened a support ticket with the hosting people and they did some stuff to fix the slowness. We think it has to do with the database. It does seem faster than it has been, but I’m not sure if it’s fully back up to where it used to be.
Seems a lot faster than the last few days, so yay!
Well, some things were still slow for me so I looked at the logs. Long story short, support says we have to increase our resources.
Edit: they increased the resources for now to see if it helps. If it does help, then that’s the long term solution.
Thanks for looking into it!
@walden@sub.wetshaving.social
We have two Weekly Question Threads today; you probably want to remove one of those.
Yup. Must be a bug!
Narrator: It wasn’t a bug.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Tabac usage lately, and it’s reminding me that I should get around to finally trying it out. But I also recall reading that they had changed the formula at some point relatively recently, event though it’s still labeled as “original”, is that right? If so, is it still worth getting, or are you guys all using the original original?
We’ve done a comparison on our podcast 🙂 i hesitate to recommend listening to it because it’s the second episode and we hadn’t figured audio yet 😅 Tl/dr: veggie Tabac is great, buy with confidence, or even better, wait for Stanksgiving and win a tub.
BTW: the tallow formula isn’t more “original”, and there have been reformulations before
Man, speaking of things I’ve been meaning to do, I’ve been meaning to check out your podcast as well. So thank you for that reminder. Thank you as well for the heads up on stanksgiving. I haven’t been posting to Reddit since the before times, but I’ve begrudgingly been thinking I might as well. Now seems as good a time as any to start.
begrudgingly been thinking I might as well
Stanksgiving will happen both there and here, so no need
Ah, good to know!
I bought a new formula Tabac soap, after having finished the old version tallow soap (in the simpler days, when I had only one soap). I haven’t yet tried the new version, but I have heard mostly good things. It seems to be less stanky™ than the old one, fwiw.
Oh right, I’ve seen a lot of references to the “stank”. Is that from musk? I’ve noticed I don’t usually like soaps with musk in their profile.
Is that from musk?
I have trouble distinguishing scents, but I don’t believe it is. At first contact, Tabac can be a bit overwhelming, but you’ll get used to it. It smells kind of old.
I do too. The musk scents I haven’t liked have all had a note that reminded me of bad BO. Im intrigued by tabac and will probably get some soon. Worst case scenario I have to PIF it away.
