tests/test-pending.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

Verify that pending changesets are seen by pretxn* hooks but not by other
processes that access the destination repo while the hooks are running.

The hooks (python and external) both reject changesets after some think time,
during which another process runs pull.  Each hook creates a file ('notify') to
indicate to the controlling process that it is running; the process removes the
file to indicate the hook can terminate.

init env vars

  $ d=`pwd`
  $ maxwait=20

utility to run the test - start a push in the background and run pull

  $ dotest() {
  >     rm -f notify
  >     printf 'push '; hg -R child-push tip --template '{node}\n'
  >     hg -R child-push -q push > push.out 2>&1 &
  > 
  >     # wait for hook to create the notify file
  >     i=$maxwait
  >     while [ ! -f notify -a $i != 0 ]; do
  >         sleep 1
  >         i=`expr $i - 1`
  >     done
  > 
  >     # run pull
  >     hg -R child-pull -q pull
  >     rc=$?
  > 
  >     # tell hook to finish; notify should exist.
  >     rm notify
  >     wait
  > 
  >     cat push.out
  >     printf 'pull '; hg -R child-pull tip --template '{node}\n'
  >     return $rc
  > }

python hook

  $ cat <<EOF > reject.py
  > import os
  > import time
  > def rejecthook(ui, repo, hooktype, node, **opts):
  >     ui.write(b'hook %s\\n' % repo[b'tip'].hex())
  >     # create the notify file so caller knows we're running
  >     fpath = os.path.join('$d', 'notify')
  >     f = open(fpath, 'w')
  >     f.close()
  >     # wait for ack - caller should delete the notify file
  >     i = int("$maxwait")
  >     while os.path.exists(fpath) and i > 0:
  >         time.sleep(1)
  >         i -= 1
  >     return True # reject the changesets
  > EOF

external hook

  $ cat <<EOF > reject.sh
  > printf 'hook '; hg tip --template '{node}\\n'
  > # create the notify file so caller knows we're running
  > fpath=$d/notify
  > touch \$fpath
  > # wait for ack - caller should delete the notify file
  > i=$maxwait
  > while [ -f \$fpath -a \$i != 0 ]; do
  >     sleep 1
  >     i=\`expr \$i - 1\`
  > done
  > exit 1 # reject the changesets
  > EOF

create repos

  $ hg init parent
  $ hg clone -q parent child-push
  $ hg clone -q parent child-pull
  $ echo a > child-push/a
  $ hg -R child-push add child-push/a
  $ hg -R child-push commit -m a -d '1000000 0'

test python hook

  $ cat <<EOF > parent/.hg/hgrc
  > [extensions]
  > reject = $d/reject.py
  > [hooks]
  > pretxnchangegroup = python:reject.rejecthook
  > EOF

  $ dotest
  push 29b62aeb769fdf78d8d9c5f28b017f76d7ef824b
  hook 29b62aeb769fdf78d8d9c5f28b017f76d7ef824b
  transaction abort!
  rollback completed
  abort: pretxnchangegroup hook failed
  pull 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

test external hook

  $ cat <<EOF > parent/.hg/hgrc
  > [hooks]
  > pretxnchangegroup = sh $d/reject.sh
  > EOF

  $ dotest
  push 29b62aeb769fdf78d8d9c5f28b017f76d7ef824b
  hook 29b62aeb769fdf78d8d9c5f28b017f76d7ef824b
  transaction abort!
  rollback completed
  abort: pretxnchangegroup hook exited with status 1
  pull 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Test that pending on transaction without changegroup see the normal changegroup(
(issue4609)

  $ cat <<EOF > parent/.hg/hgrc
  > [hooks]
  > pretxnchangegroup=
  > pretxnclose = hg tip -T "tip: {node|short}\n"
  > [phases]
  > publishing=False
  > EOF

setup

  $ cd parent
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m a
  tip: cb9a9f314b8b

actual test

  $ hg phase --public .
  tip: cb9a9f314b8b