view tests/test-mq-qqueue.t @ 47802:de2e04fe4897

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

  $ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH

  $ hg init foo
  $ cd foo
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -qAm a

Default queue:

  $ hg qqueue
  patches (active)

  $ echo b > a
  $ hg qnew -fgDU somestuff

Applied patches in default queue:

  $ hg qap
  somestuff

Try to change patch (create succeeds, switch fails):

  $ hg qqueue foo --create
  abort: new queue created, but cannot make active as patches are applied
  [255]

  $ hg qqueue
  foo
  patches (active)

Empty default queue:

  $ hg qpop
  popping somestuff
  patch queue now empty

Switch queue:

  $ hg qqueue foo
  $ hg qqueue
  foo (active)
  patches

List queues, quiet:

  $ hg qqueue --quiet
  foo
  patches

Fail creating queue with already existing name:

  $ hg qqueue --create foo
  abort: queue "foo" already exists
  [255]

  $ hg qqueue
  foo (active)
  patches

Create new queue for rename:

  $ hg qqueue --create bar

  $ hg qqueue
  bar (active)
  foo
  patches

Rename queue, same name:

  $ hg qqueue --rename bar
  abort: can't rename "bar" to its current name
  [255]

Rename queue to existing:

  $ hg qqueue --rename foo
  abort: queue "foo" already exists
  [255]

Rename queue:

  $ hg qqueue --rename buz

  $ hg qqueue
  buz (active)
  foo
  patches

Switch back to previous queue:

  $ hg qqueue foo
  $ hg qqueue --delete buz

  $ hg qqueue
  foo (active)
  patches

Create queue for purge:

  $ hg qqueue --create purge-me

  $ hg qqueue
  foo
  patches
  purge-me (active)

Create patch for purge:

  $ hg qnew patch-purge-me

  $ ls -1d .hg/patches-purge-me 2>/dev/null || true
  .hg/patches-purge-me

  $ hg qpop -a
  popping patch-purge-me
  patch queue now empty

Purge queue:

  $ hg qqueue foo
  $ hg qqueue --purge purge-me

  $ hg qqueue
  foo (active)
  patches

  $ ls -1d .hg/patches-purge-me 2>/dev/null || true

Unapplied patches:

  $ hg qun
  $ echo c > a
  $ hg qnew -fgDU otherstuff

Fail switching back:

  $ hg qqueue patches
  abort: new queue created, but cannot make active as patches are applied
  [255]

Fail deleting current:

  $ hg qqueue foo --delete
  abort: cannot delete currently active queue
  [255]

Switch back and delete foo:

  $ hg qpop -a
  popping otherstuff
  patch queue now empty

  $ hg qqueue patches
  $ hg qqueue foo --delete
  $ hg qqueue
  patches (active)

Tricky cases:

  $ hg qqueue store --create
  $ hg qnew journal

  $ hg qqueue
  patches
  store (active)

  $ hg qpop -a
  popping journal
  patch queue now empty

  $ hg qqueue patches
  $ hg qun
  somestuff

Invalid names:

  $ hg qqueue test/../../bar --create
  abort: invalid queue name, may not contain the characters ":\/."
  [255]

  $ hg qqueue . --create
  abort: invalid queue name, may not contain the characters ":\/."
  [255]

  $ cd ..