The high CPU issue that is causing midwest.social to slow way down and timeout on HTTP requests is still a mystery to me. But, it seems to do it less often and for less time now.
Here is CPU usage over 24 hours:
It’s a bunch of SELECT statements in Postgres that all seem to fire at one time and take a while to complete as a batch. I’ve inspected the logs and haven’t seen anything unusual. Just stuff federating and posts receiving upvotes.
@seahorse I haven’t been able to submit my application to join the instance yet (or maybe I have repeatedly, sorry if that’s the case!) is the sign up issue I’m having related to this? Commenting from mastodon, which is kind of amazing that it works.
It could be, can you try one more time?
@seahorse it’s just spinning for an unusually long time, with no specific error. Got to be 5 minutes by now. I’ve been bouncing between failing the Captcha and getting a “too many requests” error yesterday and earlier today. If it turns out I’m failing the Captcha because I’m a robot, please let me down gently 😉
It is rate limited by IP address. Close the page, wait 10 minutes, then try again is what I’d do.