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   Philip Mallegol-Hansen (philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 22:41:08 JST Philip Mallegol-Hansen

   Has anyone come up with a strategy for load testing a Mastodon instance? I’d love to run some tests around how much traffic my setup can handle *before* it breaks organically.

   #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 22:41:07 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @philip well, it can't be done by request unless you know some "bigger" accounts.

     Basically just by having a bigger account boost your post, it can stress the instance.

     I can attempt to help by boosting this but I am still small compared to some others here.

     Maybe some in my follow circle can help as well, to see if we can bring your instance to it's knees?😅

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 23:01:43 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Paul Chambers

     @paul @philip there's a relay? 🤔

     I had used a relay that brings their posts to my instance, which causes the same thing, but it's not official, it's relay.fedi.buzz 🤷♂️

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     Paul Chambers (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 23:01:44 JST Paul Chambers

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware @philip

     Subscribing to the Flipboard relay with 4 CPU cores and 6 GB RAM, even with jvm memory set at 1gb, brought my ElasticSearch down at around 1pm every other day and crashed Redis also. It's a busy relay.