I was curious if anyone knows anything about the large delay for content coming in from lemmy.world? There’s a discussion over there in one of fediverse communities and apparently we’re like a week behind in receiving data.
I was curious if anyone knows anything about the large delay for content coming in from lemmy.world? There’s a discussion over there in one of fediverse communities and apparently we’re like a week behind in receiving data.
Hi!
Yes, I have been told about the slow federation. I have tested a few things - for example, I am able to fetch up-to-date data from Lemmy.World immediately. But I am not entirely sure why the federation is so slow in the background. Has anyone noticed if this affects only lemmy.world?
I have two things planned:
My plan is to do these first and hopefully the federation issues are fixed during the process, and if not the next step will be to troubleshoot. But I have been so busy recently, and I do want to have a long block of uninterrupted time in case that things go wrong and I have to spend some time troubleshooting. I will try to do these tomorrow.
EDIT: I have looked through the search for others experiencing similar issues, and it seems to be something experienced in the past by other instances, and so I will try to get some inspiration from those previous experiences: https://mander.xyz/post/10489815
Here is a post with some technical details on the reasons of the federation delay: https://lemmy.world/post/13967373
There’s another overlooked issues regarding the slow federation. And I just found out a few days ago, there’s de-peering drama since mid February that caused a huge of delays from APAC to Europe.
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/9896-ntt-cogent-peering-dispute-increasing-latency-for-some-routes
https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1cu13bv/cogent_depeering_tata/
Around that time until now, I had trouble accessing some sites, like I couldn’t access some github projects, f-droid repos also failed, and also some websites. I’ve tried cloudflare warp, it didn’t help either.
And if I’m not mistaken our admin has a solution to this issue a while ago, you may ask Dave.
https://lemmy.nz/post/10046390
Huh, interesting! I was not aware of this. Thanks!
Hello!
Are you on the admins Matrix channel? The APAC instances (Reddthat, lemdro.id, Aussie.zone, Lemmy.nz, Blahaj) had the same issues a few weeks back, they managed to solve them somehow, they’ll probably be able to help you out
Thanks!
I have collected a few of the posts… I have lagged behind on a few things (object storage, migrating pictrs database to postgres, upgrade to 0.19.4), so I am trying to catch up and during this process I will see if I can implement their solutions.
I have also noticed a generally slower experience when using the instance… After I move the files to the much cheaper object storage I will be able to allocate more resources to RAM, CPU, and bandwidth. I was under the impression that the slow federation could be related to this decrease in performance, but from what I have read now it seems that it happens independent from this.
Hi Sal, thanks for the update and everything you do here! Glad to hear that everything is okay and I completely understand being busy.😊 Fingers crossed on the new version fixing most of the issued.
Good luck!