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I’m in south east Asia and I have a lot of friends using matrix but the whole is unbearably slow to me. Most of the time it takes more than 10 seconds to sync and messages don’t go through. I’d be happy to look at the infra to see what’s happening though. It’s also what breaks my notifications on iOS.

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I had that problem a couple versions ago.. turns out one table in the postgres DB, I think 'devices..' something got be like 50 GB and I could never get it widdled down even with manual vacuums and such,

I think the newer version of matrix handles cleaning that table better, but I'd need to login a check, it's been a while.

Given that the DB gets so big I had to bit the bullet and move from spinning HDs to SSDs on my latest install. Make a big difference at the beginning of course, the DB had not ballooned yet.

Are you using matrix.org? Maybe you could try a server closer to you?

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