Holy moly! This server has handled Yassieboosts and Sodiboosts with relative ease, but it was brought to its knees for almost a minute after an Aliceboost

@maddy everyone talks about yassieboosts and such but i’ve never had any issues with my instance…

i do wonder if its because i have pretty powerful hardware? although my instance does slow to a crawl if i post a lot of images right after each other

@Chloe I think it’s mainly dependent on WAN uplink bandwidth, I/O, and CPU oomph, as well as the type of post and if media is included.

I had no notable iowait during that spike, but the two Ryzen 7 5800X CPU cores I assigned to this instance were pegged.

If I were still running instances on my Haswell/Broadwell-based servers, it would probably take less to bring things to a crawl.

@maddy @Chloe hi

@yassie_j @Chloe Ahoy! ^.^

@maddy the chances of an Alice showing up and boosting your posts are low BUT NEVER ZERO

@foone And here I thought my Zen 3 2-core, 4GB RAM, mirrored NVMe VM for this instance was hot shit.

@maddy @Chloe surprisingly my server survived a christineboost, but before I installed go-away, scrapers scraping forgejo were enough to slow it down to the point SSH'ing into the host apparently took several minutes

it's currently running on a VM with 4 Xeon E5-1620 v2 (ivy bridge) cores, 8GB RAM, and 200GB HDD storage

@maddy everybody gangsta till catsaladboost