discord.js - Imagine an app•14mo ago

Cache/sweeper settings for memory constraints, mostly messages

We are in a very memory constrained environment. Our individual bot processes can't exceed 512 MB. Right now each process is managing 3 shards of our Discord connection. 1. The bot only listens for new messages and new threads to join. 2. It only determines if it needs to reply to a message, and we also log some info about the guild to an external service 3. We don't care about reactions, members, message edits, any other part of the message lifecycle, and we don't need to retain any messages longer than it takes to process them. I'm trying to configure the makeCache and sweepers settings to help optimize memory usage in this scenario. What I have is below, any other suggestions would be welcome

const BotName = new Client({
  // Other config omitted
  intents: [
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
  ],
  partials: [
    Partials.Channel, // Required to get DM content for some reason
  ],
  makeCache: Options.cacheWithLimits({
    ...Options.DefaultMakeCacheSettings,
    ReactionManager: 0,
    GuildMemberManager: {
      maxSize: 200, // Only store up to 200 members per guild at a time
      keepOverLimit: (member) => member.id === member.client.user.id, // Keep ourselves
    },
  }),
  sweepers: {
    ...Options.DefaultSweeperSettings,
    messages: {
      interval: 300, // Sweep cache every 5 minutes
      lifetime: 300, // Remove messages older than 5 minutes.
    },
    users: {
      interval: 300,  // Sweep cache every 5 minutes
      lifetime: 7200, // Remove users older than two hours
      filter: (user) => user.id !== user.client.user.id, // Keep ourselves
    },
  },
});

const BotName = new Client({
  // Other config omitted
  intents: [
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
    GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
  ],
  partials: [
    Partials.Channel, // Required to get DM content for some reason
  ],
  makeCache: Options.cacheWithLimits({
    ...Options.DefaultMakeCacheSettings,
    ReactionManager: 0,
    GuildMemberManager: {
      maxSize: 200, // Only store up to 200 members per guild at a time
      keepOverLimit: (member) => member.id === member.client.user.id, // Keep ourselves
    },
  }),
  sweepers: {
    ...Options.DefaultSweeperSettings,
    messages: {
      interval: 300, // Sweep cache every 5 minutes
      lifetime: 300, // Remove messages older than 5 minutes.
    },
    users: {
      interval: 300,  // Sweep cache every 5 minutes
      lifetime: 7200, // Remove users older than two hours
      filter: (user) => user.id !== user.client.user.id, // Keep ourselves
    },
  },
});

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d.js toolkit•14mo ago

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KarewOP•14mo ago

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d.js docs•14mo ago

Miscellaneous: Cache customization - Limiting caches When creating a new Clientopen in new window, you can limit the size of caches, which are specific to certain managers, using the makeCache option. Generally speaking, almost all your customizations can be done via the helper functions from the Optionsopen in new window module. read more interface

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KarewOP•14mo ago

If I don't cache members at all, does that increase latency when I get a new message again from the same member right afterward? It's unclear to me what the caches are for exactly. My bot is very simple, it is just reading all messages to check for things to reply to, I don't need to retain the message or info about it beyond that, unless it makes the bot perform better somehow with some caching Would you set most caches to 0 in that case to disable them?

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