My self hosted forum ( https://intfiction.org/ ) has the past couple of weeks started getting very slow, and it frequently has 502 and 503 errors. I’m on the stable branch, version 2026.1.5. Searching for those errors here hasn’t uncovered any likely causes: the forum builds and launches fine the …

Just noticed some more while watching top: postgres: 15/main: discourse discourse [local] idle used up to 90% CPU, and it’s doing so for over a minute. Edit: the forum was doing its daily backup, so I think that’s the cause of this one. I’m running the mail receiver on this server, and it seems t…

Those waves of incoming spam email are not going to help. But I agree - add RAM if you can. Double it.

Self hosted forum has frequent 502 and 503 errors

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 5 ביולי,‏ 2026,‏ 4:05am 2

I would suggest upping the RAM a bit more first, that could help.

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