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First ever instance crash. Suggestions for avoiding this in the future?


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in reply to Jerry on Friendica

@Jerry on Friendica Not an expert but you should try to increase this value by at least doubling it.

Beyond your own users, your server is receiving requests from every other Fediverse instance your users are interacting with through their follows and followers, and their number will be ever increasing.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Thanks! I just bumped it to 400. That's 4 times more than the default.

I hope 400 isn't exceeding some limit. I hope I did this correctly. 🥴

in reply to Jerry on Friendica

@Jerry on Friendica Yes, the default values don't really apply to Friendica which is a database-heavy application because of the federation aspect.
in reply to Jerry on Friendica

What would happen if one were to increase this value by several orders of magnitude (e.g. 5,000 or 50,000)?

In other words, what are noticeable signs of a too high setting?

@Hypolite Petovan @Jerry on Friendica @Roland Häder

in reply to Andy H3

@Andy H3 @Roland Häder @Jerry on Friendica With a too high number you open your server to DOS attacks where your server accept more connections that it can actually handle, queueing them forever. It's a balancing act but it should never affect regular use.

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