view tests/test-util.py @ 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.

# unit tests for mercuril.util utilities
from __future__ import absolute_import

import contextlib
import itertools
import unittest

from mercurial import pycompat, util, utils


@contextlib.contextmanager
def mocktimer(incr=0.1, *additional_targets):
    """Replaces util.timer and additional_targets with a mock

    The timer starts at 0. On each call the time incremented by the value
    of incr. If incr is an iterable, then the time is incremented by the
    next value from that iterable, looping in a cycle when reaching the end.

    additional_targets must be a sequence of (object, attribute_name) tuples;
    the mock is set with setattr(object, attribute_name, mock).

    """
    time = [0]
    try:
        incr = itertools.cycle(incr)
    except TypeError:
        incr = itertools.repeat(incr)

    def timer():
        time[0] += next(incr)
        return time[0]

    # record original values
    orig = util.timer
    additional_origs = [(o, a, getattr(o, a)) for o, a in additional_targets]

    # mock out targets
    util.timer = timer
    for obj, attr in additional_targets:
        setattr(obj, attr, timer)

    try:
        yield
    finally:
        # restore originals
        util.timer = orig
        for args in additional_origs:
            setattr(*args)


# attr.s default factory for util.timedstats.start binds the timer we
# need to mock out.
_start_default = (util.timedcmstats.start.default, 'factory')


@contextlib.contextmanager
def capturestderr():
    """Replace utils.procutil.stderr with a pycompat.bytesio instance

    The instance is made available as the return value of __enter__.

    This contextmanager is reentrant.

    """
    orig = utils.procutil.stderr
    utils.procutil.stderr = pycompat.bytesio()
    try:
        yield utils.procutil.stderr
    finally:
        utils.procutil.stderr = orig


class timedtests(unittest.TestCase):
    def testtimedcmstatsstr(self):
        stats = util.timedcmstats()
        self.assertEqual(str(stats), '<unknown>')
        self.assertEqual(bytes(stats), b'<unknown>')
        stats.elapsed = 12.34
        self.assertEqual(str(stats), pycompat.sysstr(util.timecount(12.34)))
        self.assertEqual(bytes(stats), util.timecount(12.34))

    def testtimedcmcleanexit(self):
        # timestamps 1, 4, elapsed time of 4 - 1 = 3
        with mocktimer([1, 3], _start_default):
            with util.timedcm('pass') as stats:
                # actual context doesn't matter
                pass

        self.assertEqual(stats.start, 1)
        self.assertEqual(stats.elapsed, 3)
        self.assertEqual(stats.level, 1)

    def testtimedcmnested(self):
        # timestamps 1, 3, 6, 10, elapsed times of 6 - 3 = 3 and 10 - 1 = 9
        with mocktimer([1, 2, 3, 4], _start_default):
            with util.timedcm('outer') as outer_stats:
                with util.timedcm('inner') as inner_stats:
                    # actual context doesn't matter
                    pass

        self.assertEqual(outer_stats.start, 1)
        self.assertEqual(outer_stats.elapsed, 9)
        self.assertEqual(outer_stats.level, 1)

        self.assertEqual(inner_stats.start, 3)
        self.assertEqual(inner_stats.elapsed, 3)
        self.assertEqual(inner_stats.level, 2)

    def testtimedcmexception(self):
        # timestamps 1, 4, elapsed time of 4 - 1 = 3
        with mocktimer([1, 3], _start_default):
            try:
                with util.timedcm('exceptional') as stats:
                    raise ValueError()
            except ValueError:
                pass

        self.assertEqual(stats.start, 1)
        self.assertEqual(stats.elapsed, 3)
        self.assertEqual(stats.level, 1)

    def testtimeddecorator(self):
        @util.timed
        def testfunc(callcount=1):
            callcount -= 1
            if callcount:
                testfunc(callcount)

        # timestamps 1, 2, 3, 4, elapsed time of 3 - 2 = 1 and 4 - 1 = 3
        with mocktimer(1, _start_default):
            with capturestderr() as out:
                testfunc(2)

        self.assertEqual(
            out.getvalue(),
            (b'    testfunc: 1.000 s\n' b'  testfunc: 3.000 s\n'),
        )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import silenttestrunner

    silenttestrunner.main(__name__)