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
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1175
$ hg init
$ touch a
$ hg ci -Am0
adding a
$ hg mv a a1
$ hg ci -m1
$ hg co 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg mv a a2
$ hg up
note: possible conflict - a was renamed multiple times to:
a1
a2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg ci -m2
$ touch a
$ hg ci -Am3
adding a
$ hg mv a b
$ hg ci -Am4 a
$ hg ci --debug --traceback -Am5 b
committing files:
b
warning: can't find ancestor for 'b' copied from 'a'!
committing manifest
committing changelog
updating the branch cache
committed changeset 5:83a687e8a97c80992ba385bbfd766be181bfb1d1
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
checked 6 changesets with 4 changes to 4 files
$ hg export --git tip
# HG changeset patch
# User test
# Date 0 0
# Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
# Node ID 83a687e8a97c80992ba385bbfd766be181bfb1d1
# Parent 1d1625283f71954f21d14c3d44d0ad3c019c597f
5
diff --git a/b b/b
new file mode 100644
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4476
$ hg init foo
$ cd foo
$ touch a && hg ci -Aqm a
$ hg mv a b
$ echo b1 >> b
$ hg ci -Aqm b1
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg mv a b
$ echo b2 >> b
$ hg ci -Aqm b2
$ hg graft 1
grafting 1:5974126fad84 "b1"
merging b
warning: conflicts while merging b! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
abort: unresolved conflicts, can't continue
(use 'hg resolve' and 'hg graft --continue')
[1]
$ echo a > b
$ echo b3 >> b
$ hg resolve --mark b
(no more unresolved files)
continue: hg graft --continue
$ hg graft --continue
grafting 1:5974126fad84 "b1"
$ hg log -f b -T 'changeset: {rev}:{node|short}\nsummary: {desc}\n\n'
changeset: 3:376d30ccffc0
summary: b1
changeset: 2:416baaa2e5e4
summary: b2
changeset: 0:3903775176ed
summary: a