• Ademir@lemmy.eco.br
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    4 days ago

    what are the system requirements? (sorry I think you already said it once but I can’t recall)

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      4 days ago

      Roughly 2 GB of RAM, 2 cores of CPU. PieFed.social has 8 GB and 4 cores for 150 users and that is more than enough power. We haven’t had a very busy instance with thousands of users so the only scaling tests have been to do with federation - “what happens if I join every community”. The UI is very lightweight, tho.

      It really depends how many communities you subscribe to. A single user instance might be able to use less.

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        3 days ago

        So someone like me that has a couple hundred subscriptions is a far bigger server load that someone who browses via all?

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          Yeah, sort of. The total number of subscriptions (by all users) determines the load caused by federation. If you subscribe to 200 communities then I subscribe to the same 200 the federation load will not increase.

          So once an instance has more than a dozen users pretty much every community that exists will be subscribed to and adding more users will not increase federation load (but it would increase load caused by the UI)