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revlog: add an experimental option to mitigated delta issues (issue5480)

The general delta heuristic to select a delta do not scale with the number of
branch. The delta base is frequently too far away to be able to reuse a chain
according to the "distance" criteria. This leads to insertion of larger delta (or
even full text) that themselves push the bases for the next delta further away
leading to more large deltas and full texts. This full text and frequent
recomputation throw Mercurial performance in disarray.

For example of a slightly large repository

  280 000 files (2 150 000 versions)
  430 000 changesets (10 000 topological heads)

Number below compares repository with and without the distance criteria:

manifest size:
    with:    21.4 GB
    without:  0.3 GB

store size:
    with:    28.7 GB
    without   7.4 GB

bundle last 15 00 revisions:
    with:    800 seconds
             971 MB
    without:  50 seconds
              73 MB

unbundle time (of the last 15K revisions):
    with:    1150 seconds (~19 minutes)
    without:   35 seconds

Similar issues has been observed in other repositories.


Adding a new option or "feature" on stable is uncommon. However, given that this
issues is making Mercurial practically unusable, I'm exceptionally targeting
this patch for stable.

What is actually needed is a full rework of the delta building and reading
logic. However, that will be a longer process and churn not suitable for stable.

In the meantime, we introduces a quick and dirty mitigation of this in the
'experimental' config space. The new option introduces a way to set the maximum
amount of memory usable to store a diff in memory. This extend the ability for
Mercurial to create chains without removing all safe guard regarding memory
access. The option should be phased out when core has a more proper solution
available.

Setting the limit to '0' remove all limits, setting it to '-1' use the default
limit (textsize x 4).

#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths

This tests if CGI files from before d0db3462d568 still work.

  $ hg init test
  $ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
  > #!$PYTHON
  > #
  > # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
  > 
  > import cgitb, os, sys
  > cgitb.enable()
  > 
  > # sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
  > from mercurial import hgweb
  > 
  > h = hgweb.hgweb("test", "Empty test repository")
  > h.run()
  > HGWEB

  $ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi

  $ cat >hgweb.config <<HGWEBDIRCONF
  > [paths]
  > test = test
  > HGWEBDIRCONF

  $ cat >hgwebdir.cgi <<HGWEBDIR
  > #!$PYTHON
  > #
  > # An example CGI script to export multiple hgweb repos, edit as necessary
  > 
  > import cgitb, sys
  > cgitb.enable()
  > 
  > # sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
  > from mercurial import hgweb
  > 
  > # The config file looks like this.  You can have paths to individual
  > # repos, collections of repos in a directory tree, or both.
  > #
  > # [paths]
  > # virtual/path = /real/path
  > # virtual/path = /real/path
  > #
  > # [collections]
  > # /prefix/to/strip/off = /root/of/tree/full/of/repos
  > #
  > # collections example: say directory tree /foo contains repos /foo/bar,
  > # /foo/quux/baz.  Give this config section:
  > #   [collections]
  > #   /foo = /foo
  > # Then repos will list as bar and quux/baz.
  > 
  > # Alternatively you can pass a list of ('virtual/path', '/real/path') tuples
  > # or use a dictionary with entries like 'virtual/path': '/real/path'
  > 
  > h = hgweb.hgwebdir("hgweb.config")
  > h.run()
  > HGWEBDIR

  $ chmod 755 hgwebdir.cgi

  $ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
  $ python hgweb.cgi > page1
  $ python hgwebdir.cgi > page2

  $ PATH_INFO="/test/"
  $ PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/something/test.cgi"
  $ REQUEST_URI="/test/test/"
  $ SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/test/"
  $ SCRIPT_URL="/test/test/"
  $ python hgwebdir.cgi > page3

  $ grep -i error page1 page2 page3
  [1]