tests/test-commit-multiple.t

hgwebdir: avoid systematic full garbage collection

Forcing a systematic full garbage collection upon each request
can serioulsy harm performance. This is reported as
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6075

With this change we're performing the full collection according
to a new setting, `experimental.web.full-garbage-collection-rate`.
The default value is 1, which doesn't change the behavior and will
allow us to test on real use cases. If the value is 0, no full garbage
collection occurs.

Regardless of the value of the setting, a partial garbage collection
still occurs upon each request (not attempting to collect objects from
the oldest generation). This should be enough to take care of
reference cycles that have been created by the last request
(assessment of this requires changing the setting, not to be 1).

In my experience chasing memory leaks in Mercurial servers,
the full collection never reclaimed any memory, but this is with
Python 3 and biased towards small repositories.

On the other hand, as explained in the Python developer docs [1],
frequent full collections are very harmful in terms of performance if
lots of objects survive the collection, and hence stay in the
oldest generation. Note that `gc.collect()` is indeed trying to
collect the oldest generation [2]. This happens usually in two cases:

- unwanted lingering objects (i.e., an actual memory leak that
  the GC cannot do anything about). Sadly, we have lots of those
  these days.
- desireable long-term objects, typically in caches (not inner caches
  carried by repositories, which should be collected with them). This
  is a subject of interest for the Heptapod project.

In short, the flat rate that this change still permits is
probably a bad idea in most cases, and the default value can
be tweaked later on (or even be set to 0) according to experiments
in the wild.

The test is inspired from test-hgwebdir-paths.py

[1] https://devguide.python.org/garbage_collector/#collecting-the-oldest-generation
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.collect

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11204

# reproduce issue2264, issue2516

create test repo
  $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > transplant =
  > EOF
  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ template="{rev}  {desc|firstline}  [{branch}]\n"

# we need to start out with two changesets on the default branch
# in order to avoid the cute little optimization where transplant
# pulls rather than transplants
add initial changesets
  $ echo feature1 > file1
  $ hg ci -Am"feature 1"
  adding file1
  $ echo feature2 >> file2
  $ hg ci -Am"feature 2"
  adding file2

# The changes to 'bugfix' are enough to show the bug: in fact, with only
# those changes, it's a very noisy crash ("RuntimeError: nothing
# committed after transplant").  But if we modify a second file in the
# transplanted changesets, the bug is much more subtle: transplant
# silently drops the second change to 'bugfix' on the floor, and we only
# see it when we run 'hg status' after transplanting.  Subtle data loss
# bugs are worse than crashes, so reproduce the subtle case here.
commit bug fixes on bug fix branch
  $ hg branch fixes
  marked working directory as branch fixes
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ echo fix1 > bugfix
  $ echo fix1 >> file1
  $ hg ci -Am"fix 1"
  adding bugfix
  $ echo fix2 > bugfix
  $ echo fix2 >> file1
  $ hg ci -Am"fix 2"
  $ hg log -G --template="$template"
  @  3  fix 2  [fixes]
  |
  o  2  fix 1  [fixes]
  |
  o  1  feature 2  [default]
  |
  o  0  feature 1  [default]
  
transplant bug fixes onto release branch
  $ hg update 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 2 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg branch release
  marked working directory as branch release
  $ hg transplant 2 3
  applying [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  [0-9a-f]{12} transplanted to [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  applying [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  [0-9a-f]{12} transplanted to [0-9a-f]{12} (re)
  $ hg log -G --template="$template"
  @  5  fix 2  [release]
  |
  o  4  fix 1  [release]
  |
  | o  3  fix 2  [fixes]
  | |
  | o  2  fix 1  [fixes]
  | |
  | o  1  feature 2  [default]
  |/
  o  0  feature 1  [default]
  
  $ hg status
  $ hg status --rev 0:4
  M file1
  A bugfix
  $ hg status --rev 4:5
  M bugfix
  M file1

now test that we fixed the bug for all scripts/extensions
  $ cat > $TESTTMP/committwice.py <<__EOF__
  > import time
  > from mercurial import hg, match, node, ui as uimod
  > 
  > def replacebyte(fn, b):
  >     f = open(fn, "rb+")
  >     f.seek(0, 0)
  >     f.write(b)
  >     f.close()
  > 
  > def printfiles(repo, rev):
  >     repo.ui.status(b"revision %d files: [%s]\n"
  >                    % (rev, b', '.join(b"'%s'" % f
  >                                       for f in repo[rev].files())))
  > 
  > repo = hg.repository(uimod.ui.load(), b'.')
  > assert len(repo) == 6, "initial: len(repo): %d, expected: 6" % len(repo)
  > 
  > replacebyte(b"bugfix", b"u")
  > time.sleep(2)
  > try:
  >     repo.ui.status(b"PRE: len(repo): %d\n" % len(repo))
  >     wlock = repo.wlock()
  >     lock = repo.lock()
  >     replacebyte(b"file1", b"x")
  >     repo.commit(text=b"x", user=b"test", date=(0, 0))
  >     replacebyte(b"file1", b"y")
  >     repo.commit(text=b"y", user=b"test", date=(0, 0))
  >     repo.ui.status(b"POST: len(repo): %d\n" % len(repo))
  > finally:
  >     lock.release()
  >     wlock.release()
  > printfiles(repo, 6)
  > printfiles(repo, 7)
  > __EOF__
  $ "$PYTHON" $TESTTMP/committwice.py
  PRE: len(repo): 6
  POST: len(repo): 8
  revision 6 files: ['bugfix', 'file1']
  revision 7 files: ['file1']

Do a size-preserving modification outside of that process
  $ echo abcd > bugfix
  $ hg status
  M bugfix
  $ hg log --template "{rev}  {desc}  {files}\n" -r5:
  5  fix 2  bugfix file1
  6  x  bugfix file1
  7  y  file1

  $ cd ..