view tests/test-journal-share.t @ 47010:76ae43d5b1db stable

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.

#testcases safe normal

#if safe
  $ echo "[format]"         >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "exp-share-safe = True" >> $HGRCPATH
#endif

Journal extension test: tests the share extension support

  $ cat >> testmocks.py << EOF
  > # mock out procutil.getuser() and util.makedate() to supply testable values
  > import os
  > from mercurial import util
  > from mercurial.utils import procutil
  > def mockgetuser():
  >     return b'foobar'
  > 
  > def mockmakedate():
  >     filename = os.path.join(os.environ['TESTTMP'], 'testtime')
  >     try:
  >         with open(filename, 'rb') as timef:
  >             time = float(timef.read()) + 1
  >     except IOError:
  >         time = 0.0
  >     with open(filename, 'wb') as timef:
  >         timef.write(str(time))
  >     return (time, 0)
  > 
  > procutil.getuser = mockgetuser
  > util.makedate = mockmakedate
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [extensions]
  > journal=
  > share=
  > testmocks=`pwd`/testmocks.py
  > [remotenames]
  > rename.default=remote
  > EOF

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ hg bookmark bm
  $ touch file0
  $ hg commit -Am file0-added
  adding file0
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         commit -Am file0-added
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added

A shared working copy initially receives the same bookmarks and working copy

  $ cd ..
  $ hg share repo shared1
  updating working directory
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd shared1
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         share repo shared1

unless you explicitly share bookmarks

  $ cd ..
  $ hg share --bookmarks repo shared2
  updating working directory
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd shared2
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         share --bookmarks repo shared2
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added

Moving the bookmark in the original repository is only shown in the repository
that shares bookmarks

  $ cd ../repo
  $ touch file1
  $ hg commit -Am file1-added
  adding file1
  $ cd ../shared1
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         share repo shared1
  $ cd ../shared2
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  4f354088b094  bm        commit -Am file1-added
  0fd3805711f9  .         share --bookmarks repo shared2
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added

But working copy changes are always 'local'

  $ cd ../repo
  $ hg up 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (leaving bookmark bm)
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         up 0
  4f354088b094  .         commit -Am file1-added
  4f354088b094  bm        commit -Am file1-added
  0fd3805711f9  .         commit -Am file0-added
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added
  $ cd ../shared2
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  4f354088b094  bm        commit -Am file1-added
  0fd3805711f9  .         share --bookmarks repo shared2
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added
  $ hg up tip
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg up 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg journal
  previous locations of '.':
  0fd3805711f9  up 0
  4f354088b094  up tip
  0fd3805711f9  share --bookmarks repo shared2

Unsharing works as expected; the journal remains consistent

  $ cd ../shared1
  $ hg unshare
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         share repo shared1
  $ cd ../shared2
  $ hg unshare
  $ hg journal --all
  previous locations of the working copy and bookmarks:
  0fd3805711f9  .         up 0
  4f354088b094  .         up tip
  4f354088b094  bm        commit -Am file1-added
  0fd3805711f9  .         share --bookmarks repo shared2
  0fd3805711f9  bm        commit -Am file0-added

New journal entries in the source repo no longer show up in the other working copies

  $ cd ../repo
  $ hg bookmark newbm -r tip
  $ hg journal newbm
  previous locations of 'newbm':
  4f354088b094  bookmark newbm -r tip
  $ cd ../shared2
  $ hg journal newbm
  previous locations of 'newbm':
  no recorded locations

This applies for both directions

  $ hg bookmark shared2bm -r tip
  $ hg journal shared2bm
  previous locations of 'shared2bm':
  4f354088b094  bookmark shared2bm -r tip
  $ cd ../repo
  $ hg journal shared2bm
  previous locations of 'shared2bm':
  no recorded locations