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fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

learned so far: - 4 cores seems _enough to run_ but on this particular host it’s kind of marginal. 16GB ram seems plenty. - it’s been dropping pds websockets, and doesn’t seem to recover on its own. not sure why. - bandwidth is less than i was expecting. - +jetstream on this server is too much

fig (aka:[phil])@bad-example.com

kinda still a relay noob but uh i think it’s doing the thing non-us jurisdiction (montreal) non-us-company-cloud-provider relay. chillin.

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

- pds backfill is rough on this server, cpu pegs 100% - made worse by having jetstream on the same server trying to do a higher event rate - also interesting: jetstream just crashes when it’s relay websocket closes? fine if the supervisor auto-restarts it i guess.

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

- 4 shared cores on a 2017-era 2ghz epyc is not enough for a relay. could probably tune some things to get it there—seeing significant overhead from userspace networking + logging—but i def want more performance margin than this. for $5.5CAD i can get two more shared cores, or double that for 8

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

good news! i was wrong! with a lot of patience and many hours coaxing each individual bluesky PDS server (80 of them) to sync up, this lil relay is now up, staying up, looking happy. thanks @jaz.bsky.social + @why.bsky.team for pointers. wait,, if bsky team helps, are we even decentralizing???

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fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

jetstream is up!

fig (aka:[phil])@bad-example.com

indie jetstream from an indie atproto relay? yeah we got that too: wss://jetstream.fire.hose.cam/subscribe obligatory pdsls demo: pdsls.dev/jetstream?in... here, have an @tools: atp.tools/jetstream (open the little expand-y thing to add the wss URL)

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

Relay operation learnings, storage edition - 48h content retention window: 582GB. Weekends are a little slower on atproto so say ~300GB/retention-day typical. This is less than I expected (i got 4TB) - sync state and everything else in postgres: 2.2GB. this thing is pretty efficient ✨

Eric
@edavis.dev

did you have to do anything special to get this working with pdsls? I have Caddy fronting one and it works with websocat but not with pdsls

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

actually yes! two things, thank you for reminding me. 1. tls. assume you’re set since caddy 2. dropping the origin header in the reverse proxy. i haven’t dug into why exactly but the relay didn’t like it when a request included the origin.