Hey,

The server kept going down every four hours due to high memory usage. As it turns out, I misunderstood how the RAM allocation worked for the database; I needed to set the allocation low enough that it didn’t take down the entire server each time it came close to the maximum. I’ve set it low enough now that this should no longer be an issue, but I’ll be keeping an eye on our usage graphs to make sure things are stable. This was a frustrating issue that I’ve been trying to solve since this instance first went online last week, and it also probably means I didn’t need to upgrade the server as soon as I did. It’s fine, though, since we would have needed to upgrade our data storage soon anyway (and it gives us some overhead if we get slammed with traffic).

I’ll try and announce smaller outages in the future, as fixing this probably took the server offline for a few seconds (and was separate from the other announced outage). Still, we should be out of the woods for some of the more annoying downtime issues we’ve been having. The next server maintenance will likely be to update the codebase to the next major version, 0.18, which should be coming out soon. Anyway, I thought I would let everyone know about this. Have a good one.

- u/EuphoricPenguin22