The flush was only done Annex.run' to make sure that the queue was flushed
before git-annex exits. But, doing it there means that as soon as one
change gets queued, it gets flushed soon after, which contributes to
excessive writes to the database, slowing git-annex down.
(This does not yet speed git-annex up, but it is a stepping stone to
doing so.)
Database queues do not autoflush when garbage collected, so have to
be flushed explicitly. I don't think it's possible to make them
autoflush (except perhaps if git-annex sqitched to using ResourceT..).
The comment in Database.Keys.closeDb used to be accurate, since the
automatic flushing did mean that all writes reached the database even
when closeDb was not called. But now, closeDb or flushDb needs to be
called before stopping using an Annex state. So, removed that comment.
In Remote.Git, change to using quiesce everywhere that it used to use
stopCoProcesses. This means that uses on onLocal in there are just as
slow as before. I considered only calling closeDb on the local git remotes
when git-annex exits. But, the reason that Remote.Git calls stopCoProcesses
in each onLocal is so as not to leave git processes running that have files
open on the remote repo, when it's on removable media. So, it seemed to make
sense to also closeDb after each one, since sqlite may also keep files
open. Although that has not seemed to cause problems with removable
media so far. It was also just easier to quiesce in each onLocal than
once at the end. This does likely leave performance on the floor, so
could be revisited.
In Annex.Content.saveState, there was no reason to close the db,
flushing it is enough.
The rest of the changes are from auditing for Annex.new, and making
sure that quiesce is called, after any action that might possibly need
it.
After that audit, I'm pretty sure that the change to Annex.run' is
safe. The only concern might be that this does let more changes get
queued for write to the db, and if git-annex is interrupted, those will be
lost. But interrupting git-annex can obviously already prevent it from
writing the most recent change to the db, so it must recover from such
lost data... right?
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
Bugfix: When -J was enabled, getting files leaked a ever-growing number of
git cat-file processes.
(Since commit dd39e9e255)
The leak happened when mergeState called stopNonConcurrentSafeCoProcesses.
While stopNonConcurrentSafeCoProcesses usually manages to stop everything,
there was a race condition where cat-file processes were leaked. Because
catFileStop modifies Annex.catfilehandles in a non-concurrency safe way,
and could clobber modifications made in between. Which should have been ok,
since originally catFileStop was only used at shutdown.
Note the comment on catFileStop saying it should only be used when nothing
else is using the handles. It would be possible to make catFileStop
race-safe, but it should just not be used in a situation where a race is
possible. So I didn't bother.
Instead, the fix is just not to stop any processes in mergeState. Because
in order for mergeState to be called, dupState must have been run, and it
enables concurrency mode, stops any non-concurrent processes, and so all
processes that are running are concurrency safea. So there is no need to
stop them when merging state. Indeed, stopping them would be extra work,
even if there was not this bug.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
Values in AnnexRead can be read more efficiently, without MVar overhead.
Only a few things have been moved into there, and the performance
increase so far is not likely to be noticable.
This is groundwork for putting more stuff in there, particularly a value
that indicates if debugging is enabled.
The obvious next step is to change option parsing to not run in the
Annex monad to set values in AnnexState, and instead return a pure value
that gets stored in AnnexRead.
Done on unix, could not implement it on windows quite.
The signal library gets part of the way needed for windows.
But I had to open https://github.com/pmlodawski/signal/issues/1 because
it lacks raiseSignal.
Also, I don't know what the equivilant of getProcessGroupIDOf is on
windows. And System.Process does not provide a way to send any signal to
a process group except for SIGINT.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
Doing this at shutdown is not very important at all, but I do like to
make sure that when git-annex allocates a resource, it later cleans it
up.
More importantly, stopCoProcesses is used in eg, Remote.Git in a
situation where it needs to stop long-running processes like these.
This is groundwork for using git-annex transferkeys to run transfers,
in order to allow stalled transfers to be interrupted and retried.
The new upload and download are closer to what git-annex transferkeys
does, so the plan is to make them use it.
Then things that were left using upload' and download' won't recover
from stalls. Notably, that includes import and export. But
at least get/move/copy will be able to. (Also the assistant hopefully,
but not yet.)
This commit was sponsored by Jake Vosloo on Patreon.
Believed to be no longer needed as I've squashed the last ones.
Note that, in Test.Framework, I can see no reason for the code to have
run it twice. It does not cause running processes to exit after all,
so any process that has leaked and is running and causing problems with
cleanup of the directory won't be helped by running it.
This commit was sponsored by Mark Reidenbach on Patreon.
This does mean that RemoteDaemon.Transport.Tor's call runs it, otherwise
no change, but this is groundwork for doing more such expensive actions
in dupState.
Rather than limiting it to PerformStage and CleanupStage, this opens it
up so any number of stages can be added as needed by commands.
Each concurrent command has a set of stages that it uses, and only
transitions between those can block waiting for a free slot in the
worker pool. Calling enteringStage for some other stage does not block,
and has very little overhead.
Note that while before the Annex state was duplicated on the first call
to commandAction, this now happens earlier, in startConcurrency.
That means that seek stage actions should that use startConcurrency
and then modify Annex state won't modify the state of worker threads
they then start. I audited all of them, and only Command.Seek
did so; prepMerge changes the working directory and so has to come
before startConcurrency.
Also, the remote list is built before duplicating the state, which means
that it gets built earlier now than it used to. This would only have an
effect of making commands that end up not needing to perform any actions
unncessary build the remote list (only when they're run with concurrency
enable), but that's a minor overhead compared to commands seeking
through the work tree and determining they don't need to do anything.
This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
I am very doubtful that commit 613e747d91
was right about this doing anything, and I've verified that without it,
ctrl-c sends sigINT to child processes, and git-annex get does not
continue to the next item.
It seems likely that the real problem back then was something catching
the async exception.
Hard to see how installing a default signal handler could cause any
change from default behavior either.
One reason to want to get rid of this cruft now is that tasty has a
sigINT handler of its own, and this would override it.
(Tasty is not currently setting that handler up the way git-annex uses
it, due to a problem in tasty, but that will hopefully change.)
Fourth or fifth try at this and finally found a way to make it work.
Absurd amount of busy-work forced on me by change in cabal's behavior.
Split up Utility modules that need posix stuff out of ones used by
Setup. Various other hacks around inability for Setup to use anything
that ifdefs a use of unix.
Probably lost a full day of my life to this.
This is how build systems make their users hate them. Just saying.
Fix process and file descriptor leak that was exposed when git-annex was
built with ghc 8.2.1. Apparently ghc has changed its behavior of GC
of open file handles that are pipes to running processes. That
broke git-annex test on OSX due to running out of FDs.
Audited for all uses of Annex.new and made stopCoProcesses be called
once it's done with the state. Fixed several places that might have
leaked in other situations than running the test suite.
This commit was sponsored by Ewen McNeill.
* Perform a clean shutdown when --time-limit is reached.
This includes running queued git commands, and cleanup actions normally
run when a command is finished.
* fsck: Commit incremental fsck database when --time-limit is reached.
Previously, some of the last files fscked did not make it into the
database when using --time-limit.
Note that this changes Annex.addCleanup hooks, to run after --time-limit
expires. Fsck was using such a hook to clean up after a
--incremental-schedule, and that shouldn't run when --time-limit exipires
it. So, instead, moved that cleanup code to be run by cleanupIncremental.
Resulted in some data type juggling.
