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We are running out of memory again

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 124

23:30:37 web.1 | E, [2014-12-25T23:30:37.935924 #16365] ERROR -- : app error
: Cannot allocate memory - ps (Errno::ENOMEM)

I think we should stop new registrations again.

PP

Pirate Praveen Fri 26 Dec 2014 3:30AM

"total_users":8458,"active_users_halfyear":882,"active_users_monthly":500,

~400 new users are added after we upgraded, we can't grow at this rate. I think we should stop new registrations and start raising funds for a new pod managed by a new team. We can split this team and give some experienced admins to new team. That is only sustainable growth I think.

PP

Poll Created Fri 26 Dec 2014 3:33AM

close registrations Closed Mon 5 Jan 2015 11:34AM

We cannot grow this infinitely giving good experience to users at the same time. We should create more pods so load can be better shared.

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 100.0% 7 PP S AS BC MKT NAJ JS
Abstain 0.0% 0  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 34 MK J NV P AKS RD S PS AA SAJ AR S JB P J MJ SK FMP J

7 of 41 people have participated (17%)

PP

Pirate Praveen
Agree
Fri 26 Dec 2014 3:35AM

we have to give good experience to users and grow sustainably and new pods are the best way to expand.

BC

Balasankar C
Agree
Fri 26 Dec 2014 4:26AM

There is a reason Diaspora was made decentralized. :)

AS

Anish Sheela
Agree
Fri 26 Dec 2014 7:13AM

And have to start the campaign for another pod. I can't suggest a pod now. :(

MKT

Manu Krishnan T V
Agree
Fri 26 Dec 2014 10:01AM

Decentralization is the way to go. I am doubtful on what causes the heavy memory usage.

PP

Pirate Praveen Fri 26 Dec 2014 3:34AM

Does anyone know how heroku/joindiaspora manages, we are full message?

PP

Pirate Praveen Fri 26 Dec 2014 8:07AM

@anisha , there are many pods who can take new users listed at http://podupti.me

MKT

Manu Krishnan T V Fri 26 Dec 2014 10:01AM

I don't think number of users is an issue, but active users may contribute to system load and memory usage. But again, as per podupti.me, there are around 15 pods with more active users than poddery. Lets contact podmins of those and get an idea of their system spec and load information to troubleshoot the issues with poddery.

PP

Pirate Praveen Sat 27 Dec 2014 7:59AM

It turns out to be a bug in podupti.me which always suggested poddery.com when users choose a random pod. This issue is fixed and we are safe for the time being. We can consider closing registrations when we can't handle the load with the current specs.