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diff --git a/docs/API/differences_in_mastoapi_responses.md b/docs/API/differences_in_mastoapi_responses.md index 3075b6b86..17999da55 100644 --- a/docs/API/differences_in_mastoapi_responses.md +++ b/docs/API/differences_in_mastoapi_responses.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Adding the parameter `instance=lain.com` to the public timeline will show only s ## Statuses -- `visibility`: has an additional possible value `list` +- `visibility`: has additional possible values `list` and `local` (for local-only statuses) Has these additional fields under the `pleroma` object: @@ -129,12 +129,30 @@ The `type` value is `pleroma:emoji_reaction`. Has these fields: - `account`: The account of the user who reacted - `status`: The status that was reacted on +### ChatMention Notification (not default) + +This notification has to be requested explicitly. + +The `type` value is `pleroma:chat_mention` + +- `account`: The account who sent the message +- `chat_message`: The chat message + +### Report Notification (not default) + +This notification has to be requested explicitly. + +The `type` value is `pleroma:report` + +- `account`: The account who reported +- `report`: The report + ## GET `/api/v1/notifications` Accepts additional parameters: - `exclude_visibilities`: will exclude the notifications for activities with the given visibilities. The parameter accepts an array of visibility types (`public`, `unlisted`, `private`, `direct`). Usage example: `GET /api/v1/notifications?exclude_visibilities[]=direct&exclude_visibilities[]=private`. -- `include_types`: will include the notifications for activities with the given types. The parameter accepts an array of types (`mention`, `follow`, `reblog`, `favourite`, `move`, `pleroma:emoji_reaction`). Usage example: `GET /api/v1/notifications?include_types[]=mention&include_types[]=reblog`. +- `include_types`: will include the notifications for activities with the given types. The parameter accepts an array of types (`mention`, `follow`, `reblog`, `favourite`, `move`, `pleroma:emoji_reaction`, `pleroma:chat_mention`, `pleroma:report`). Usage example: `GET /api/v1/notifications?include_types[]=mention&include_types[]=reblog`. ## DELETE `/api/v1/notifications/destroy_multiple` @@ -155,7 +173,7 @@ Additional parameters can be added to the JSON body/Form data: - `preview`: boolean, if set to `true` the post won't be actually posted, but the status entitiy would still be rendered back. This could be useful for previewing rich text/custom emoji, for example. - `content_type`: string, contain the MIME type of the status, it is transformed into HTML by the backend. You can get the list of the supported MIME types with the nodeinfo endpoint. - `to`: A list of nicknames (like `lain@soykaf.club` or `lain` on the local server) that will be used to determine who is going to be addressed by this post. Using this will disable the implicit addressing by mentioned names in the `status` body, only the people in the `to` list will be addressed. The normal rules for for post visibility are not affected by this and will still apply. -- `visibility`: string, besides standard MastoAPI values (`direct`, `private`, `unlisted` or `public`) it can be used to address a List by setting it to `list:LIST_ID`. +- `visibility`: string, besides standard MastoAPI values (`direct`, `private`, `unlisted`, `local` or `public`) it can be used to address a List by setting it to `list:LIST_ID`. - `expires_in`: The number of seconds the posted activity should expire in. When a posted activity expires it will be deleted from the server, and a delete request for it will be federated. This needs to be longer than an hour. - `in_reply_to_conversation_id`: Will reply to a given conversation, addressing only the people who are part of the recipient set of that conversation. Sets the visibility to `direct`. diff --git a/docs/configuration/optimizing_beam.md b/docs/configuration/optimizing_beam.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e336bd36c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/configuration/optimizing_beam.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# Optimizing the BEAM + +Pleroma is built upon the Erlang/OTP VM known as BEAM. The BEAM VM is highly optimized for latency, but this has drawbacks in environments without dedicated hardware. One of the tricks used by the BEAM VM is [busy waiting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_waiting). This allows the application to pretend to be busy working so the OS kernel does not pause the application process and switch to another process waiting for the CPU to execute its workload. It does this by spinning for a period of time which inflates the apparent CPU usage of the application so it is immediately ready to execute another task. This can be observed with utilities like **top(1)** which will show consistently high CPU usage for the process. Switching between procesess is a rather expensive operation and also clears CPU caches further affecting latency and performance. The goal of busy waiting is to avoid this penalty. + +This strategy is very successful in making a performant and responsive application, but is not desirable on Virtual Machines or hardware with few CPU cores. Pleroma instances are often deployed on the same server as the required PostgreSQL database which can lead to situations where the Pleroma application is holding the CPU in a busy-wait loop and as a result the database cannot process requests in a timely manner. The fewer CPUs available, the more this problem is exacerbated. The latency is further amplified by the OS being installed on a Virtual Machine as the Hypervisor uses CPU time-slicing to pause the entire OS and switch between other tasks. + +More adventurous admins can be creative with CPU affinity (e.g., *taskset* for Linux and *cpuset* on FreeBSD) to pin processes to specific CPUs and eliminate much of this contention. The most important advice is to run as few processes as possible on your server to achieve the best performance. Even idle background processes can occasionally create [software interrupts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt) and take attention away from the executing process creating latency spikes and invalidation of the CPU caches as they must be cleared when switching between processes for security. + +Please only change these settings if you are experiencing issues or really know what you are doing. In general, there's no need to change these settings. + +## VPS Provider Recommendations + +### Good + +* Hetzner Cloud + +### Bad + +* AWS (known to use burst scheduling) + + +## Example configurations + +Tuning the BEAM requires you provide a config file normally called [vm.args](http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#emulator-flags). If you are using systemd to manage the service you can modify the unit file as such: + +`ExecStart=/usr/bin/elixir --erl '-args_file /opt/pleroma/config/vm.args' -S /usr/bin/mix phx.server` + +Check your OS documentation to adopt a similar strategy on other platforms. + +### Virtual Machine and/or few CPU cores + +Disable the busy-waiting. This should generally only be done if you're on a platform that does burst scheduling, like AWS. + +**vm.args:** + +``` ++sbwt none ++sbwtdcpu none ++sbwtdio none +``` + +### Dedicated Hardware + +Enable more busy waiting, increase the internal maximum limit of BEAM processes and ports. You can use this if you run on dedicated hardware, but it is not necessary. + +**vm.args:** + +``` ++P 16777216 ++Q 16777216 ++K true ++A 128 ++sbt db ++sbwt very_long ++swt very_low ++sub true ++Mulmbcs 32767 ++Mumbcgs 1 ++Musmbcs 2047 +``` + +## Additional Reading + +* [WhatsApp: Scaling to Millions of Simultaneous Connections](https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2012-whatsapp-scaling.pdf) +* [Preemptive Scheduling and Spinlocks](https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/nedlagte-emner/INF3150/h03/annet/slides/preemptive.pdf) +* [The Curious Case of BEAM CPU Usage](https://stressgrid.com/blog/beam_cpu_usage/) diff --git a/docs/dev.md b/docs/dev.md index 22e0691f1..aa89a941f 100644 --- a/docs/dev.md +++ b/docs/dev.md @@ -21,3 +21,26 @@ This document contains notes and guidelines for Pleroma developers. ## Auth-related configuration, OAuth consumer mode etc. See `Authentication` section of [the configuration cheatsheet](configuration/cheatsheet.md#authentication). + +## MRF policies descriptions + +If MRF policy depends on config, it can be added into MRF tab to adminFE by adding `config_description/0` method, which returns map with special structure. + +Example: + +```elixir +%{ + key: :mrf_activity_expiration, + related_policy: "Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.ActivityExpirationPolicy", + label: "MRF Activity Expiration Policy", + description: "Adds automatic expiration to all local activities", + children: [ + %{ + key: :days, + type: :integer, + description: "Default global expiration time for all local activities (in days)", + suggestions: [90, 365] + } + ] + } +``` diff --git a/docs/installation/debian_based_en.md b/docs/installation/debian_based_en.md index 75ceb6595..2b1c7406f 100644 --- a/docs/installation/debian_based_en.md +++ b/docs/installation/debian_based_en.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sudo apt full-upgrade * Install some of the above mentioned programs: ```shell -sudo apt install git build-essential postgresql postgresql-contrib cmake libmagic-devel +sudo apt install git build-essential postgresql postgresql-contrib cmake libmagic-dev ``` ### Install Elixir and Erlang |