revlog: add an experimental option to mitigated delta issues (
issue5480)
The general delta heuristic to select a delta do not scale with the number of
branch. The delta base is frequently too far away to be able to reuse a chain
according to the "distance" criteria. This leads to insertion of larger delta (or
even full text) that themselves push the bases for the next delta further away
leading to more large deltas and full texts. This full text and frequent
recomputation throw Mercurial performance in disarray.
For example of a slightly large repository
280 000 files (2 150 000 versions)
430 000 changesets (10 000 topological heads)
Number below compares repository with and without the distance criteria:
manifest size:
with: 21.4 GB
without: 0.3 GB
store size:
with: 28.7 GB
without 7.4 GB
bundle last 15 00 revisions:
with: 800 seconds
971 MB
without: 50 seconds
73 MB
unbundle time (of the last 15K revisions):
with: 1150 seconds (~19 minutes)
without: 35 seconds
Similar issues has been observed in other repositories.
Adding a new option or "feature" on stable is uncommon. However, given that this
issues is making Mercurial practically unusable, I'm exceptionally targeting
this patch for stable.
What is actually needed is a full rework of the delta building and reading
logic. However, that will be a longer process and churn not suitable for stable.
In the meantime, we introduces a quick and dirty mitigation of this in the
'experimental' config space. The new option introduces a way to set the maximum
amount of memory usable to store a diff in memory. This extend the ability for
Mercurial to create chains without removing all safe guard regarding memory
access. The option should be phased out when core has a more proper solution
available.
Setting the limit to '0' remove all limits, setting it to '-1' use the default
limit (textsize x 4).
# pager.py - display output using a pager
#
# Copyright 2008 David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
#
# To load the extension, add it to your configuration file:
#
# [extension]
# pager =
#
# Run 'hg help pager' to get info on configuration.
'''browse command output with an external pager (DEPRECATED)
Forcibly enable paging for individual commands that don't typically
request pagination with the attend-<command> option. This setting
takes precedence over ignore options and defaults::
[pager]
attend-cat = false
'''
from __future__ import absolute_import
from mercurial import (
cmdutil,
commands,
dispatch,
extensions,
)
# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core'
def uisetup(ui):
def pagecmd(orig, ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc):
auto = options['pager'] == 'auto'
if auto and not ui.pageractive:
usepager = False
attend = ui.configlist('pager', 'attend', attended)
ignore = ui.configlist('pager', 'ignore')
cmds, _ = cmdutil.findcmd(cmd, commands.table)
for cmd in cmds:
var = 'attend-%s' % cmd
if ui.config('pager', var):
usepager = ui.configbool('pager', var)
break
if (cmd in attend or
(cmd not in ignore and not attend)):
usepager = True
break
if usepager:
# Slight hack: the attend list is supposed to override
# the ignore list for the pager extension, but the
# core code doesn't know about attend, so we have to
# lobotomize the ignore list so that the extension's
# behavior is preserved.
ui.setconfig('pager', 'ignore', '', 'pager')
ui.pager('extension-via-attend-' + cmd)
else:
ui.disablepager()
return orig(ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc)
extensions.wrapfunction(dispatch, '_runcommand', pagecmd)
attended = ['annotate', 'cat', 'diff', 'export', 'glog', 'log', 'qdiff']