# Improving Instance Performance (Megatopics, Database Size and Extreme Load)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-instance-performance-megatopics-database-size-and-extreme-load/144277
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 14, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-instance-performance-megatopics-database-size-and-extreme-load/144277 "2020-03-14T01:02:32Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-instance-performance-megatopics-database-size-and-extreme-load/144277/67 "2020-10-13T06:04:29Z")

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Regarding perf improvements for

1. a topic
2. 5000 people are scrolled to the last post in the topic
3. Someone posts on the topic

See: [Real-time updating of topics freezes under high activity - #11 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-time-updating-of-topics-freezes-under-high-activity/166789/11)

Perf should be better now for this use case, the client backs off.

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