blue skies server testing ideas
It would be interesting to do a resource comparison on one Mastodon with 10,00 accounts on it vs. 10,000 single-user instances, under the same activity load.
I hear that a Mastodon roams the steppes better in a VM, with each of its body parts in separate containers. I wonder how many single-user containers you could run on one VM? On one physical server machine?
What kind of server infrastructure would you need to test this kind of thing?
Better in a VM than what?
Do you mean better single-user instances than multiuser instances, or better in a VM than in separate physical servers?
@volkris
> Better in a VM than
... on a shared server.
> Do you mean better single-user instances than multiuser instances
That's what the test would be looking to find out. Not only comparing multi-user to single-user Mastodon under the same load of user activity, but comparing multi-user Mastodon to single-user instances running software designed for this use, like microblog.pub.
What advantages do you expect the single user setup to have?
@volkris
I expect that;
* 1 Mastodon instance with 10 users would use less server resources than 10 single-user Mastodon instances.
* 10 instances of software designed for a single-user would use less server resources than either.
I don't think that answers my question as to what advantage there is to single user instances.
I'm not trying to be belligerent or anything, I am honestly asking what you have in mind.
@volkris
> I don’t think that answers my question as to what advantage there is to single user instances
If you don't see using less server resources to support the same level of use as an advantage, I'm not sure what to tell you 🤷♂️
My point is that it uses MORE resources though!
So my question is that, using more resources, what advantage does it bring? That's exactly the question I'm asking here.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just trying to figure out what you are saying.
Is it that you did not realize, then, that it uses more resources to have single user servers?
@volkris
> uses more resources though
Why would an instance of a RDBMS-less lightweight like Epicyon (or a not-as-light microblog.pub) have the same resource usage as that of a RDBMS-backed Mastodon?
It is an interesting query @strypey has, on the numeric factors of this ratio.
I'd add that network load might also be different enough to merit attention.
