view tests/test-issue1877.t @ 47343:9f798c1b0d89 stable

cext: fix memory leak in phases computation

Without this a buffer whose size in bytes is the number of
changesets in the repository is leaked each time the repository is
opened and changeset phases are computed.

Impact: the current code in hgwebdir creates a new `localrepository`
instance for each HTTP request. Since any pull or push is made of several
requests, a team of 100 people can easily produce thousands of such
requests per day.

Being a low-level malloc, this leak can't be seen with the gc module and
tools relying on that, but was spotted by valgrind immediately.

Reproduction
------------

  for i in range(cl_args.iterations):
      repo = hg.repository(baseui, repo_path)
      rev = repo.revs(rev).first()
      ctx = repo[rev]

  del ctx
  del repo
  # avoid any pollution by other type of leak
  # (that should be fixed in 5.8)
  repoview._filteredrepotypes.clear()

  gc.collect()

Measurements
------------

Resident Set Size (RSS), taken on a clone of
mozilla-central for performance analysis (440 000
changesets).

before:
  5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72  1000 iterations: 1606MB
  5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72 10000 iterations: 5723MB
after:
  5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145  1000 iterations:  555MB
  5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145 10000 iterations:  555MB
         (double checked, not a copy/paste error)

(e2084d39e14 is the present changeset, before amendment
of the message to add the measurements)

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1877

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m 'a'
  $ echo b > a
  $ hg ci -m'b'
  $ hg up 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg book main
  $ hg book
   * main                      0:cb9a9f314b8b
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg add c
  $ hg ci -m'c'
  created new head
  $ hg book
   * main                      2:d36c0562f908
  $ hg heads
  changeset:   2:d36c0562f908
  bookmark:    main
  tag:         tip
  parent:      0:cb9a9f314b8b
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  
  changeset:   1:1e6c11564562
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  
  $ hg up 1e6c11564562
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (leaving bookmark main)
  $ hg merge main
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg book
     main                      2:d36c0562f908
  $ hg ci -m'merge'
  $ hg book
     main                      2:d36c0562f908

  $ cd ..