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Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

running your own server is super lightweight.

Not IME. Are you running Synapse? Gigabytes of disk usage and memory leaks requiring restarts.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been running the same matrix instance since ubuntu 18.04lts, just upgraded the virtual machine along the ride, so that has to be +6 years it's been running 24/7.

    I have not once rebooted my server due to performance reasons (like a mem leak). And like last 4 years I've ran the instance virtualized on a hp thin client, lately on a hp t640.

    While I understand the criticism towards synapse being a complex and slow, and element being slow-ish, I don't feel justified saying synapse would need any restarts in general. At least I have never restarted it in 6+ years and my instance has been working without those required restarts.

    Yeah, I miss the irc, too. I still use it via my matrix instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've never had to reboot the server; I had to restart Synapse because if Memory leaks.

    Are you using any bridges?

    Anyway, it got too expensive to run my own, so I went back to Matrix.org. Now I'm mostly back on IRC except for a couple of rooms. IRC stinks, but Matrix has been nothing but a decade of pain.

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