I’ve received some complaints from users who occasionally can’t post or create topics. This issue seems to occur randomly, but it may be related to high CPU usage on the server. Here’s a snapshot from htop showing the CPU usage during one of these spikes. [image] Each time the CPU usage spikes, …

We have identified the issue. It was caused by the Discourse reactions like sync setting. I don’t know if there is a way to avoid it other than disabling it. [image] Reaction like sync issues Support I don’t know if you were able to fix it, but in our cas…

Update: After upgrading the server, the issue seems to have been minimized. [image] However, the sames errors still occur every hour while the postgres:13/main: discourse discourse [local] UPDATE command is running, which corresponds to the spikes in the chart. Does anyone have suggestions on w…

Did you recently upgrade? Anyhow… here are a couple recent threads with high cpu usage rebuilding may help [image] High CPU usage (Ruby) Support Yeah fair play to the DC team they are usually very good. If I hadn’t have moved two other forums over I cou…

[image] Andrew Rowe: Did you recently upgrade? I did upgrade recently and the same problem appears quite often, every hour or so, as before. Thank you for sharing those threads, will take a look! :+1:

Server Performance Issues Due to High CPU Usage

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Erzgebirge February 5, 2025, 3:31pm 3

Same problem here. Almost once every hour you are not able to post anything for 15 to 20 minutes, with a “502 error”.

I don’t know what’s not working

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