submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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I'm still seeing cases where comments don't seem to be federating correctly. For example:

Other instance	aussie.zone
https://lemmy.world/comment/6786498	https://aussie.zone/comment/5886332
https://feddit.uk/post/6819925	https://aussie.zone/post/6020867
https://lemmy.ml/comment/7476880	https://aussie.zone/comment/5881947
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/5759107	https://aussie.zone/comment/5888459
https://midwest.social/comment/6313276	https://aussie.zone/comment/5889962

I'm not sure what the cause is, but the last few days it seems more of my comments are failing to federate than are succeeding.

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[-] lodion@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago

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I'll see what I can see...

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 7 months ago

Ok, for some reason practically all instances were flagged as "dead" in the database. I've manually set them all to be requeued... server is now smashed as it attempts to updated the ~4000 instances I've told it are no longer dead. See how this goes...

[-] lodion@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Replying from my lemmy.world account, seems to have caught up eventually.

[-] lodion@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

test

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Seems to have sorted it for the most part... not sure what caused it, will do some more digging.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Boss!

[-] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm claiming federation issues as the reason my posts aren't getting thousands of upvotes.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I still can't believe you're not president of the world yet. Like wtf?

[-] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Careful, or I'll turn to the dark side and federation will become a dictatorship so fast it'll make Palpatine spin in his grave. Darth No1orious 🤣

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Ok, something is busted with the lemmy API endpoint that shows current federation state. It is currently showing nearly all remote instances as dead:

But "dead" instances are still successfully receiving content from AZ, and sending back to us.

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Ok, there's more to this than I first thought. It seems there is a back end task set to run at a set time every day, if the instance is restarting at that time the task doesn't run... this task updates the instances table to show remote instances as "seen" by AZ. With the memory leaks in 0.19.1, the instance has been restarting when this task is running... leading to this situation.

I've updated the server restart cronjob to not run around the time this task runs... and I've again manually updated the DB to flag all known instances as alive rather than dead.

Will keep an eye on it some more...

For anyone curious, two of the bugs that are related to this:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4288
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the update!

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Looks like what caused this might have been resolved? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4377

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Excellent, hopefully that is included in 0.19.3 that came out overnight... will upgrade shortly.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

It is. I found the page I linked from the release notes.

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Cool, we're on 0.19.3 now.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Sweet

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

How do things look after the past week?

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

0.19.3 still has the memory leak, I've left Lemmy to restart once a day to mitigate this. Federation seems to be fine for the last week after some minor changes and the upgrade.

[-] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Cant argue with any of those examples.

In a delicious cherry on top, this thread is also not federating (ex: https://lemmy.world/c/meta@aussie.zone)

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I found that this post's body text is best viewed on desk/laptop for anyone trying to make heads or tails of all the links on mobile. Edit: Looks like my idea that this issue was due to some instances not being on 0.19.2 has been shot out of the water.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah fair call. I've edited it into a table which should hopefully be easier to read.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Ooo yeah scrollable table, nice work, much better at least on voyager 👍

[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

I've noticed a few of my comments are federating either

[-] synae 2 points 7 months ago

Seems to be working now!

this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024

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