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Lemmy resource usage

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Why does the official Lemmy docu say:

Lemmy uses roughly 150 MB of RAM in the default Docker installation. CPU usage is negligible.

whereas the Node.js server alone (dessalines/lemmy-ui container) consumes over 100 MB?

I would have easily ordered a 2 GB VPS in the first place, but I trusted the documentation to be up-to-date.

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  • Yeah I'm not really sure about the RAM usage, I guess technically the lemmy server itself is eating 150.

    • Actually looking at ctop.. I think they're only mentioning the lemmy server itself in the docs. ¯(ツ)_/¯

      • It appeared that lemmy-ui also causes random cpu spikes of load ca. 25.0 which made my small VPS unresponsive for a few minutes every few hours.

        I have observed great performance improvement with mlmym but it lacks some basic functionality, so now I'm using Photon and with satisfactory result (btop):