Submitted 5 hours ago by 
irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I was having some issues with Invidious the other day, which I resolved. However, I came across this tidbit of info that I’d never seen before when I first deployed it:
Post-install configuration: Highly recommended Because of various issues, Invidious must be restarted often, at least once a day, ideally every hour.
Anyone else observing this weird restart schedule?
I haven’t used this tool specifically, but anything involving Youtube is always going to be an uphill battle. In the instance of a video downloader like Channeltube, you frequently need to feed it fresh cookies to make sure Youtube doesn’t flag it as a bot. I assume this is a similar situation.
The requirements also list ‘‘2gb if you restart frequently’’ so there might be a memory leak issue, or the way it’s setup means the RAM usage will increase in perpetuity.
I would just script a task to restart the docker container every hour. Shouldn’t be too much a hassle. I would track its RAM usage over a few days too. See if there’s something fishy happening. Something like Beszel will let you track your docker socket, so usage per container. Preferably left on read only imo.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 hours ago I would just script a task to restart the docker container every hour. Shouldn’t be too much a hassle.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. A script fired by a cron every hour. I do have the occasional, rare issue with Invidious. So, I’m wondering if indeed I need more restarts. It couldn’t hurt.
What kind of issues have you had? How did you resolve them?
I’d be surprised if most people running invidious for private use are following that advice. I’ve been on the master branch for a while and it gets updated fairly often. For my instance, I haven’t seen any reason to restart the service more often.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 hours ago I haven’t seen any reason to restart the service more often.
Alright. Cool.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 hour ago
I stopped using Invidious a couple years ago, when I found out about FreeTube. I do have to update FreeT pretty often. I'll put Invidious back on my list. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention.