This view of the Milky Way was captured at Sunset Crater National Monument near Flagstaff, AZ, USA in 2018.

My co-workers and I were taking the back way into Flagstaff from a job site at the end of the day and pulled off the road to stargaze. I forgot my tripod at the hotel, so I positioned the camera on the truck tailgate, aimed towards the Milky Way, and took a couple dozen photos. This 10-image composition was the result!

#Photography #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Astrodon #MilkyWay

Trees reflected in a pond in heavy fog, Wharton State Forest.
#landscape #photography #NJ #PineBarrens #fog #reflections #landscapePhotography #ReflectionPhotography

Now that the Akkoma server is running and the memory issues seem to have been sorted out, I turned my attention to the UI ...

While I do like some of the features that the default Akkoma UI provides, it felt a bit too busy and didn't allow the content to shine, IMO. So a little bit of messing around with CSS and I managed to get the UI tweaked enough to suit my requirements ....

I like it much better now 🙂
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Christmas At The Lake. As night approaches and snowflakes begin to fall, the decorated Christmas tree at the edge of the lake glows against the snow and reflects in the calm water. Also available with the words Merry Christmas in white script.

See it here -https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/christmas-at-the-lake-deborah-league.html

#mastodon #mastoart #AYearForArt #Christmas #art #artist #artwork #watercolor #fediart #holidays #winter #snow #night #christmaslights #trees #lake #landscape #wallart #homedecor #fedi22 #arte #blue #reflection

It is winter, so let's dream of summer on day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar with this watercolor painting of a peaceful landscape with three trees on a meadow beside a grainfield. Everything is quiet, the sky is blue ... relax.

See the Peaceful summer landscape watercolor painting here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/peaceful-summer-landscape-watercolor-painting-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #humanartist #watercolor #watercolour #landscape #interiordesign #landscapepainting #trees #peaceful

Elgol, Isle of Skye. A wild evening spent trying to not to get absolutely soaking, I failed for what it's worth. So so so wet #scotland #isleofskye #photography #landscape #nikon

GM!!
Simply Iceland 🇮🇸
#photo #photography #foto #landscape #landscapephotography #nikon #nikonphotography #nature #naturephotography #goodmorning #winter #iceland #sunrise #sunset #mountain

@deltatux Another post seems to confirm that that's in the right ballpark ... apparently running top and paying attention to the VIRT column is the way to go and that seems to indicate that PG is at at about 360MB ...

So, I guess I give it a day and see how it goes over a longer period of time without me constantly restarting the process to optimize or to check on something 😛

@deltatux Yeah, that's what I've been discovering ... A quick Google didn't seem to help much and while there are a few processes outlined, none of them seem to really help 😛

But as far as I can tell (with the huge caveat that I'm wrong) based on one such Google link, Postgres seems to be taking up only about 300MB. As to whether that's accurate, I have no idea!

@deltatux Is there a way to determine how much RAM Postgres is taking up? According to "top" and "ps" I have multiple Postgres processes and they show the % of memory used and the total of the percentage is higher than 100% 😛

I did one final tune-up for my 1GB RAM Akkoma instance earlier today — I optimized the Posgres DB as per this Akkoma guide: https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/configuration/postgresql/ and the help of PGTune: https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/

Just adding a swap file (earlier) seemed to make things so much better and I can't say for certain that the Postgres tuning made a huge difference ... or not. But CPU load has certainly gone down a lot and the memory usage, while still substantial, is not always at a 100%. In fact, since the above changes, I don't believe memory usage has topped 90%.

So that's where it is after 24 hours of running the Akkoma server. This server incidentally has nothing else on it except for Akkoma 🙂

I'm adding some charts for the 24-hour period so that you can see how it's gone so far — where the lines plunge suddenly today is from around the time the swap file was added and the Postgres tuning done, one after the other with maybe 15 minutes interval in between.

#Akkoma #Ubuntu #Server #VPS
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A Great Gray Owl sitting pretty for a portrait, Missoula, Montana, spring 2022. Photo by Chase Miller.

I'd like to spend the weekend focusing on the black, indigenous, and PoC creatives in the community here, in an effort to amplify their voices with the reach of this account.

If you'd like to share your work (this includes art, craft, writing, music, dance - anything creative), comment below; introduce yourself, say a bit about your work, and link to any of your posts that you'd like to highlight, including shop/support links! <3

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Wanted: a true #lancashire accent!

My daughter's undergraduate linguistics project needs a recording of a person who was born in #lancashire and who has lived there throughout their life, so their vowels are unsullied by southern tones.

All that's required is a short recording of a word list.

The project is an analysis of the effect on vowel sound on people who are brought up in one part of the UK and later move elsewhere.

If you can help, please DM or reply. Otherwise pls boost Thanks!

Um bom dia para todos 😃🌿🎋🌧️🙏

A purple coneflower Echinacea Purpurea.

See more HERE: https://5-tanya-smith.pixels.com/featured/echinacea-purpurea-flower-tanya-c-smith.html

#Flower #FloralArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #prints #photography #PhotographyIsArt #mastoart #mastodonart

@deltatux Ah, that would explain it 🙂 I think I even read something about that (about needing to have /web for the URL) but it didn't register. Thanks! At the moment, I'm just trying out the available frontends to see if I like any of 'em ... If not, I guess I go hunting for custom ones ...

@deltatux I wasn't even trying to set up something unsupported 🙂 I simply wanted to switch over to mastodon-fe to see how it compared to pleroma-fe but when I set the active theme to mastodon-fe and refresh the site I simply get the initial site you get before a frontend is installed. But if switch the primary back to pleroma-fe, it works.

Haven't done any digging into this yet since I was working on the memory issues till now. But maybe this is a known issue and I'm missing something obvious?

@deltatux I actually did the PGTune changes while I was writing up the last message to you and restarted Postgres somewhere after I sent it ... So far, it does seem to be performing better.

CPU load dropped dramatically (4 - 6% now as opposed to 40% earlier) but that might have been just the earlier swap file change catching up since my stats graphs seem to show the CPU usage lowering before I rebooted ... But even memory usage is down since now it sits at around 75% as opposed to 85% earlier ...

Not sure if this was a result of PGTune or just restarting Postgres though 🙂 Guess I'll have to monitor for longer and see. But at this point, it's definitely usable and as long as things don't spike suddenly, I can stop monitoring and start working on other stuff — like why I can't switch the frontend theme to something other than pleroma-fe 😛