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


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@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.

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. 🥴

@Jerry on Friendica Yes, the default values don't really apply to Friendica which is a database-heavy application because of the federation aspect.
@Jerry on Friendica Looks okay, but I would take a number that follows the *2 path, e.g. 512 or 256.

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

@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.
I see. Thanks @Hypolite Petovan for the clarification.
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