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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 52 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/matrix-synapse.default | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/synctl.ronn | 27 |
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 182a50ee37..bdaf59e9b9 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,55 @@ +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.19.0) stable; urgency=medium + + [ Synapse Packaging team ] + * New synapse release 1.19.0. + + [ Aaron Raimist ] + * Fix outdated documentation for SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:06:42 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.18.0) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.18.0. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:55:53 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.17.0) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.17.0. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:20:31 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.16.1) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.16.1. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:09:24 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.17.0rc1) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.17.0rc1. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:53:12 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.16.0) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.16.0. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:03:48 +0100 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.15.2) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.15.2. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:34:00 -0400 + +matrix-synapse-py3 (1.15.1) stable; urgency=medium + + * New synapse release 1.15.1. + + -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:27:50 +0100 + matrix-synapse-py3 (1.15.0) stable; urgency=medium * New synapse release 1.15.0. diff --git a/debian/matrix-synapse.default b/debian/matrix-synapse.default index 65dc2f33d8..f402d73bbf 100644 --- a/debian/matrix-synapse.default +++ b/debian/matrix-synapse.default @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ # Specify environment variables used when running Synapse -# SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR=1 (default) +# SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR=0.5 (default) diff --git a/debian/synctl.ronn b/debian/synctl.ronn index a73c832f62..1bad6094f3 100644 --- a/debian/synctl.ronn +++ b/debian/synctl.ronn @@ -46,19 +46,20 @@ Configuration file may be generated as follows: ## ENVIRONMENT * `SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR`: - Synapse's architecture is quite RAM hungry currently - a lot of - recent room data and metadata is deliberately cached in RAM in - order to speed up common requests. This will be improved in - future, but for now the easiest way to either reduce the RAM usage - (at the risk of slowing things down) is to set the - SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR environment variable. Roughly speaking, a - SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR of 1.0 will max out at around 3-4GB of - resident memory - this is what we currently run the matrix.org - on. The default setting is currently 0.1, which is probably around - a ~700MB footprint. You can dial it down further to 0.02 if - desired, which targets roughly ~512MB. Conversely you can dial it - up if you need performance for lots of users and have a box with a - lot of RAM. + Synapse's architecture is quite RAM hungry currently - we deliberately + cache a lot of recent room data and metadata in RAM in order to speed up + common requests. We'll improve this in the future, but for now the easiest + way to either reduce the RAM usage (at the risk of slowing things down) + is to set the almost-undocumented ``SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR`` environment + variable. The default is 0.5, which can be decreased to reduce RAM usage + in memory constrained enviroments, or increased if performance starts to + degrade. + + However, degraded performance due to a low cache factor, common on + machines with slow disks, often leads to explosions in memory use due + backlogged requests. In this case, reducing the cache factor will make + things worse. Instead, try increasing it drastically. 2.0 is a good + starting value. ## COPYRIGHT |