Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> [Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:01:47 -0700] rev 47012
dirstateguard: use mktemp-like functionality to generate the backup filenames
Previously these were generated with names like:
`dirstate.backup.commit.<memory address of dirstateguard>`
This could cause problems if two hg commands ran at the same time that used the
same memory address, (which is apparently not uncommon if chg is involved), as
memory addresses are not unique across processes.
This issue was reported in the post-review comments on
http://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9952.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10504
Georges Racinet <georges.racinet@octobus.net> [Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:30:05 +0200] rev 47011
repoview: separate concerns in _filteredrepotypes comment
The cited issue in Python bugtracker is closed, but hasn't been
fixed. We've been able to use the attached example and reproduce
it with Python 3.9.
The point where it turns from needless stress on the GC to
the an actual leak is when one factors in the fact that the GC
was before Python 3.4 unable to collect some types (see PEP 442).
Note that even with Python 2.7, the simple example of cycles
due to __mro__ are collectable. This was seen again with the
example attached on the CPython issue.
Georges Racinet <georges.racinet@octobus.net> [Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:30:53 +0200] rev 47010
repoview: fix memory leak of filtered repo classes
The leak occurs in long-running server processes with
extensions, and is measured at 110kB per request.
Before this change, the contents of the `_filteredrepotypes`
cache are not properly garbage collected, despite it begin
a `WeakKeyDictionary`.
Extensions have a tendency to generate a new repository class
for each `localrepo` instantiation. Server processes based
on `hgwebdir_mod` will instantiate a new `localrepo` for each
HTTP request that involves a repository.
As a result, with a testing process that repeatedly opens a
repository with several extensions activated
(`topic` notably among them), we see a steady increase in
resident memory of 110kB per repository instantiation before this
change. This is also true, if we call `gc.collect()` at each
instantiation, like `hgwebdir_mod` does, or not.
The cause of the leak is that the *values* aren't weak references.
This change uses `weakref.ref` for the values, and this makes
in our measurements the resident size increase drop to 5kB per
repository instantiation, with no explicit call of `gc.collect()`
at all.
There is currently no reason to believe that this remaining leak
of 5kB is related to or even due to Mercurial core.
We've also seen evidence that `ui.ui` instances weren't properly
garbage collected before the change (with the change, they are).
This could explain why the figures are relatively high.
In theory, the collection of weak references could lead to
much more misses in the cache, so we measured the impact on
the original case that was motivation for introducing that cache
in 7e89bd0cfb86 (see also issue5043): `hg convert` of the
mozilla-central repository. The bad news here is that there is a
major memory leak there, both with and without the present changeset.
There were no more cache misses, and we could see no
more memory leak with this change: the resident size after importing
roughly 100000 changesets was at 12.4GB before, and 12.5GB after.
The small increase is mentioned for completeness only, and we
believe that it should be ignored, at least as long as the main
leak isn't fixed. At less than 1% of the main leak, even finding out
whether it is merely noise would be wasteful.
Original context where this was spotted and first mitigated:
https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/issues/466
The leak reduction was also obtained in Heptapod inner HTTP server,
which amounts to the same as `hgwebdir_mod` for these questions.
The measurements done with Python 3.9, similar figures seen with 3.8.
More work on our side would be needed to give measurements with 2.7,
because of testing server process does not support it.