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proud of little #footiMac. 2008 Core2 Duo iMac with 16GB RAM and a 1.5TB SSD

She's done excellent work in her space under the stairs. nearly a full year of uptime and chugging away doing Mastodon, Pixelfed (until just now), weewx Weather server, homebridge, streaming relay point, and general web server.

My next trick will be to see if I can move mastodon from using local storage for media to using cloud storage. I'm at about 70% usage now, so it's time.

Your old computers always have a purpose friends! Don't throw them away!

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When I wrote my last post above I got an error from my instance that the post was over the 500 character limit. Which is odd, since I have the limit set to 2000 on my instance.

Sure enough, it looks like somewhere along the line I blew away the config files that had been edited to enable the longer posts.

So consider this a test to see if I have correctly re-applied the hack, which is what it is, and completely unnecessarily, in the code for mastodon when this should be a simple switch/option in the admin panel!

(edit: confirmed: 2000 character limit restored)
#selfhost #footiMac #Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

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#selfhost v4.4.1 upgrade complete! Phew that was a long one. But I think I found the root of the issue in the zombie pixelfed install. Maybe it had a memory leak (it wasn’t a current version) or maybe it was just too much for #footiMac.. but it was definitely slowing things down. Things are much more responsive now in general. I guess that brings the pixelfed testing to an end for now. But I'll probably bring it back up elsewhere if I get a chance.

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i think my pixelfed install has been slowing down #footiMac! I stopped it temporarily just to see if it would help and things sped up and responded immediately. So I may keep my pixelfed instance offline for the foreseeable future. I don't use it anyway. Maybe i'll test it out on my external host rather #footiMac just to take away any multi-hosted issues.

I'm now at 4.4.0 and am now moving to 4.4.1. Should be done shortly!
#Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian