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Is Synapse not infamous for its memory consumption and losing sync with other homeserver(s)?

by omegacharlie 4y ago

IceWreck 4y ago
Well dendrite is beta software. Ive been running it for almost two years now and its close to synapse in functionality now while being super lightweight compared to it. And then there is Conduit which is written in Rust
Syonyk 4y ago
It's far heavier than I'd prefer, yes. However, I've got my own box colo'd, so I can give plenty of resources to the VM it runs in, and it seems to hold up just fine in operation. Realistically, the bulk of my traffic is to other users on the same homeserver, so I'm less likely to notice sync/federation issues. A few people do talk across different servers, though, and would bug me if something was broken. It seems to be fine, just very CPU and RAM heavy for what a chat server ought to be using in my view of things. I won't claim it's perfect, but it does provide for a robust and modern-ish chat service that's not reliant on the good will and data monetization of major tech companies.
neiljohnson 4y ago
Synapse has come a long way in the past few years both in terms of reliability and resource usage. The following give some details: * https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-sca... * https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1434912387933560837 https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1434912387933560837 What's more the Synapse team recently announced support for Rust meaning that various performance critical sub-components can be ported over from Python. * https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/09/this-week-in-matrix-2022-09-09#synapse-website https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/09/this-week-in-matrix-2022-... As mentioned elsewhere Dendrite (Go) and Conduit (Rust) are both entirely useable albeit beta implementations.

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Is Synapse not infamous for its memory consumption and losing sync with other homeserver(s)?

by omegacharlie 4y ago

Is Synapse not infamous for its memory consumption and losing sync with other homeserver(s)?

IceWreck 4y ago
Well dendrite is beta software. Ive been running it for almost two years now and its close to synapse in functionality now while being super lightweight compared to it. And then there is Conduit which is written in Rust
Syonyk 4y ago
It's far heavier than I'd prefer, yes. However, I've got my own box colo'd, so I can give plenty of resources to the VM it runs in, and it seems to hold up just fine in operation. Realistically, the bulk of my traffic is to other users on the same homeserver, so I'm less likely to notice sync/federation issues. A few people do talk across different servers, though, and would bug me if something was broken. It seems to be fine, just very CPU and RAM heavy for what a chat server ought to be using in my view of things. I won't claim it's perfect, but it does provide for a robust and modern-ish chat service that's not reliant on the good will and data monetization of major tech companies.
neiljohnson 4y ago
Synapse has come a long way in the past few years both in terms of reliability and resource usage. The following give some details: * https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-scalability https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-sca... * https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1434912387933560837 https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1434912387933560837 What's more the Synapse team recently announced support for Rust meaning that various performance critical sub-components can be ported over from Python. * https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/09/this-week-in-matrix-2022-09-09#synapse-website https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/09/this-week-in-matrix-2022-... As mentioned elsewhere Dendrite (Go) and Conduit (Rust) are both entirely useable albeit beta implementations.