Eric Wong [Sun, 9 Jun 2024 20:05:23 +0000 (20:05 +0000)]
gzip_filter: use zlib DEF_MEM_LEVEL for gzip
Compress::Raw::Zlib uses MAX_MEM_LEVEL by default which deviates
fom the zlib default. Since the zlib default is good enough for
git, nginx and varnish: it's good enough for our use. This
change reduces maximum zlib memory use by 1/3.
There's also a new note explaining why gzip happens in Perl
instead of varnish || nginx.
Eric Wong [Thu, 6 Jun 2024 07:44:16 +0000 (07:44 +0000)]
www: reduce fragmentation in /t/ and /T/ endpoints
For giant threads with /t/ and /T/ endpoints, avoid generating a
large string with a medium lifetime for the thread skeleton
($ctx->{skel}). Instead, make $ctx->{skel} an arrayref and use
it to store a bunch of smaller strings, instead.
While keeping many small strings is inefficient due to pointer
chasing; forcing a smaller distribution of sizes makes it easier
for the malloc implementation to organize and find small chunks
of memory instead of having to find (and hold) larger contiguous
chunks. When a large string is created now, it's lifetime is
kept as short as possible to decrease its likelyhood of causing
fragmentation.
Preliminary testing shows this appears to reduce RSS by roughly
20-40% under both glibc malloc (using a tiny
MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=67000) on 32-bit and jemalloc 5.2.1 on
64-bit with standard settings.
Eric Wong [Thu, 6 Jun 2024 07:44:15 +0000 (07:44 +0000)]
treewide: use cached git executable lookup
Repeated stat(2) syscalls are more expensive nowadays due
to CPU vulnerability mitigations and this change also
allows bypassing some heap allocations done by Perl.
Eric Wong [Thu, 6 Jun 2024 07:44:12 +0000 (07:44 +0000)]
treewide: use \*STD(IN|OUT|ERR) consistently
Referencing the {IO} slot may not always be populated or work
(e.g. with `-t' filetest) if there's no IO handle. Using merely
using `\*' is shorter than typing out `{GLOB}', so just use the
shortest form consistently.
This may fix occasional and difficult-to-reproduce failures from
redirecting STDERR in t/imap_searchqp.t
Eric Wong [Wed, 5 Jun 2024 20:03:23 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
searchview: avoid uninitialized vals in %rmap_inc
Modules (e.g. `PublicInbox::Gcf2') may have an undef value in
the %rmap_inc hash table if an attempt has been made to load it
and failed due to a missing libgit2-dev dependency. Avoid using
it in interpolation to avoid warnings.
Eric Wong [Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:25:20 +0000 (22:25 +0000)]
mda: do not auto-create Xapian indices
As with -learn, -mda now detects indexlevel=basic without an
explicit config setting for inboxes which only have SQLite
files. Omitting indexlevel=basic in the config file allows
users to reduce configuration file size (and RAM usage).
We'll also ensure completely unindexed v1 inboxes can stay
unindexed despite the default being indexlevel=full.
git.git commit f4aa8c8b (fetch/clone: detect dubious ownership
of local repositories, 2024-04-10) has proven to be overly aggressive
and breaks existing setups where git-http-backend is serving
read-only repositories from reasonably trusted sources and not
running hooks of any sort.
Just mark everything as safe since our public-facing instances
have always assumed writes to all git repos come from a
different user than whatever user -netd/-httpd runs as.
Eric Wong [Thu, 30 May 2024 09:45:15 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
git: reduce spawning for rev-parse --git-path
Since every non-worktree git repo has an `objects' directory, we
can quickly stat(2) to check for its presence and avoid an
expensive process spawn. This should be the common case on
servers since it's rare to use worktrees on servers for
coderepos (or inboxes).
Eric Wong [Thu, 30 May 2024 09:45:14 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
git: prefer WNOHANG for `git cat-file --batch-*'
When inside our DS event loop, ensure we don't stall on
synchronous waitpid when stopping `--batch-*' processes.
Instead of calling PublicInbox::IO::close explicitly, let
refcounting close the socket via PublicInbox::IO::DESTROY and
the SIGCHLD handler will deal with it when the kernel and event
loop get to it.
Eric Wong [Tue, 28 May 2024 21:25:02 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
search: forbid getopt(3) switch injection in query
Search queries may start with `-', confusing getopt(3) and
Getopt::Long; so we use `--' to separate the query string
from switches.
Consequences of this bug were limited to a single broken HTTP
response for the requesting client.
It didn't didn't allow writes to on-disk Xapian DBs, but caused
aborts on some searches or nonsensical results when using the
optional external xap_helper processes. There was no risk of
data leaks since the mset xap_helper endpoint only returns
document IDs (unsigned integers), and not terms.
The biggest danger from this bug was that it could run systems
out of space if they are configured to write out core dumps.
Eric Wong [Tue, 21 May 2024 07:14:23 +0000 (07:14 +0000)]
t/lei-tag: allow changing time for --commit-delay test
Sometimes `lei ls-label' can run slowly enough that the
previously-scheduled delayed commit happens by the time it runs.
So support tuning the delay and add a helpful message to someone
analyzing failures on slow/overloaded machines.
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:07 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
xap_helper: drop DB handles on EMFILE/ENFILE/etc...
This allows the process to recover in case we get the SHARD_COST
calculation wrong in case Xapian uses more FDs than expected in
new versions. We'll no longer attempt to recover from ENOMEM
and similar errors during Xapian DB initialization and instead
just tear down the process (as we do in other places).
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:06 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
xap_helper: expire DB handles when FD table is near full
For long-lived daemons across config reloads, we shouldn't keep
Xapian DBs open forever under FD pressure. So estimate the
number of FDs we need per-shard and start clearing some out
if we have too many open.
While we're at it, hoist out our ulimit_n helper and share it
across extindex and the Perl XapHelper implementation.
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:05 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
xap_helper.h: memoize Xapian handles with khashl
Since we're already using khashl in the C++ implementation,
get rid of tsearch(3) and friends as well. Relying on hash
tables in both the Perl and C(++) implementation reduces
cognitive load for hackers.
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:03 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
xap_helper.h: use khashl.h instead of hsearch(3)
hsearch(3) and friends are just too horrid of APIs and subject
to fatal problems due to system-dependent ENTRY.key use of
strdup(3). So replace it with khashl (which is a newer, smaller
version of the widely-used khash in git.git).
We'll also be able to use khashl in the future for
the FUSE shim if liburcu isn't available.
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:02 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
xap_helper: key search instances by -Q params, too
In addition to the shards which comprise the xap_helper search
instance, we also account for changes in altid and indexheader
in case xap_helper lifetime exceeds the given
PublicInbox::Config.
xap_helper will be Config lifetime agnostic since it's possible
to run -netd and -httpd instances with multiple Config files,
but a single xap_helper instance (with workers) should be able
to service all of them.
Eric Wong [Sun, 19 May 2024 21:55:01 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
config: dedupe ibx->{newsgroup}
We definitely use newsgroup names as hash keys, so get rid
of the duplicate value for some memory savings when we have
hundreds or thousands of newsgroups.
Eric Wong [Tue, 14 May 2024 06:38:06 +0000 (06:38 +0000)]
doc: limit jemalloc recommendation to 64-bit systems
My 32-bit server seems less happy with jemalloc; likely since
munmap is creating holes and it's not using sbrk by default.
jemalloc seems to need large VM space (not actual memory)
to work well, and that isn't a possibility for constrained
32-bit systems.
Eric Wong [Sat, 11 May 2024 23:29:40 +0000 (23:29 +0000)]
solver: quiet complex regexp warning for old Perl
I'm not sure when the actual recursion limit was removed,
but the warning was removed for Perl 5.37.1. In any case,
it's probably not worth doing anything about for older Perls
it since it's rarely triggered and it seems nobody cares too
much about solver, anyways :<
Eric Wong [Thu, 9 May 2024 00:39:01 +0000 (00:39 +0000)]
treewide: reduce $PATH checks for `git' executable
Repeatedly checking $PATH for `git' when we need to call it
multiple times in quick succession doesn't seem useful. So
avoid some expensive stat(2) syscalls to make things less bad
for systems which require expensive CPU vulnerability
mitigations.
This also saves a bunch of memory allocations since we do the
$PATH lookup in pure Perl to avoid doing the uncacheable lookup
in a vfork-ed child.
Eric Wong [Tue, 7 May 2024 19:14:27 +0000 (19:14 +0000)]
xap_helper: unconditionally reopen DBs on reuse
Reopening Xapian DBs is a fairly cheap operation and Xapian
avoids doing work when nothing's changed, so just do it
to ensure we always get the latest updates in search results.
The old synchronous search interface worked around this by
having a timer based expiration in hopes of mitigating
fragmentation problems, but perhaps that's not worth doing
anymore now that memory fragmentation from Perl itself is
better understood.
Eric Wong [Mon, 6 May 2024 23:19:53 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
searchidx: fix Xapian version comparison
We must use Perl v-strings consistently on both sides of the
comparison. Fortunately, this was merely a no-op and didn't
cause any data integrity problems (aside from increased wear on
the storage device).
Fixes: c25c66af0a8a (searchidx: use vstring to improve readability, 2023-04-07)
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 May 2024 23:35:10 +0000 (23:35 +0000)]
search: fix altid search with XapHelper process
External Xapian helper processes need to support non-standard
QueryParser prefixes. The only way to do this is to specify
these prefixes in every `mset' request since we have no idea
if the XH worker servicing the request has initialized the
extra prefixes, yet.
Eric Wong [Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:15:24 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
extindex: support --no-multi-pack-index
git multi-pack-index files were creating swap storms and OOM-ing
on my system; so providing an option to disable it seems prudent
given the minor startup time regression.
Eric Wong [Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:08:01 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
t/imap_searchqp: hopefully fix test reliability
Localizing assignments to *STDERR doesn't seem to always work
with scalar (String) IO objects. Fortunately, doing actual dup2
redirects always seems reliable, so do that instead of
attempting to understand why PerlIO sometimes fails with the
assignment.
Eric Wong [Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:29:44 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
xap_helper: implement alarm(2)-based timeout
alarm(2) delivering SIGALRM seems sufficient for Xapian since
Xapian doesn't block signals (which would necessitate the use of
SIGKILL via RLIMIT_CPU hard limit). When Xapian gets stuck in
`D' state on slow storage, SIGKILL would not make a difference,
either (at least not on Linux).
Relying on RLIMIT_CPU is also trickier since we must account for
CPU time already consumed by a process for unrelated requests.
Thus we just rely on a simple alarm-based timeout. This also
avoids requiring the optional BSD::Resource module in the (mostly)
Perl implementation (and avoids potential bugs given my meager
arithmetic skills).
Eric Wong [Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:29:43 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
xap_helper: reopen logs in daemons
When read-only daemons reopen log files via SIGUSR1, be sure to
propagate it to Xapian helper processes to ensure old log files
can be closed and archived.
Eric Wong [Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:29:42 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
search: remove auto-start for async_mset
Only public-facing daemons use it, currently, and all
public-facing daemons will pre-spawn it as early as feasible.
lei will need it eventually to handle queries requiring C++,
but I'm not certain what path to take with lei, yet...
Eric Wong [Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:29:41 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
test_common: don't needlessly rebuild C++ Xapian helper
We should almost always be calling `check_build' instead of
`build'. Using ccache masked some of the overhead from
this, but various linker implementations are still slow.
Eric Wong [Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:31:46 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
daemon: share and allow configuring Xapian helpers
Xapian helper processes are disabled by default once again.
However, they can be enabled via the new `-X INTEGER' parameter.
One big positive is the Xapian helpers being spawned by the
top-level daemon means they can be shared freely across all
workers for improved load balancing and memory reduction.
Eric Wong [Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:31:44 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
send_cmd4: make `tries' a per-call parameter
While existing callers are private (lei, *-index, -watch) are
private, we should not be blocking the event loop in
public-facing servers when we hit ETOOMANYREFS, ENOMEM, or
ENOBUFS.
Eric Wong [Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:31:42 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
t/cindex: require DBD::SQLite for now
Technically it's not required, but -compact blindly requires
DBD::SQLite at the moment since it was designed for inboxes in
mind. Furthermore, cindex isn't useful at the moment without
inboxes to associate with, and inboxes can't be indexed without
SQLite.
Eric Wong [Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:39:36 +0000 (09:39 +0000)]
xap_helper: PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY fallback for JAOT build
systemd setups may use role accounts (e.g. `news') with
XDG_CACHE_HOME unset and a non-existent HOME directory
which the user has no permission to create.
In those cases, fallback to using PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY if
available for building the just-ahead-of-time C++ binary.
Eric Wong [Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:44:47 +0000 (06:44 +0000)]
www: wire up search to use async xap_helper
The C++ version of xap_helper will allow more complex and
expensive queries. Both the Perl and C++-only version will
allow offloading search into a separate process which can be
killed via ITIMER_REAL or RLIMIT_CPU in the face of overload.
The xap_helper `mset' command wrapper is simplified to
unconditionally return rank, percentage, and estimated matches
information. This may slightly penalize mbox retrievals and
lei users, but perhaps that can be a different command entirely.
Eric Wong [Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:44:45 +0000 (06:44 +0000)]
xap_helper: drop terms+data from `mset' command
Retrieving Xapian document terms, data (and possibly values) and
transferring to the Perl side would be an increase in complexity
and I/O both the Perl and C++ sides. It would require more I/O
in C++ and transient memory use on the Perl side where slow mset
iteration gives an opportunity to dictate memory release rate.
So lets ignore the document-related stuff here for now for
ease-of-development. We can reconsider this change if dropping
Xapian Perl bindings entirely and relying on JAOT C++ ever
becomes a possibility.
Eric Wong [Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:44:44 +0000 (06:44 +0000)]
xap_helper.h: remove _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN default
It's never straightforward to pick an ideal number of processes
for anything and Xapian helper processes are no exception since
there may be a massive disparities in CPU count and I/O
performance. So default to a single worker for now in the C++
version since that's the default is for the Perl/(XS|SWIG)
version, and also the same as for our normal public-facing
daemons.
This keeps the behavior between the Perl+(XS|SWIG) and C++
version as similar as possible.
Eric Wong [Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:46:16 +0000 (19:46 +0000)]
doc: strongly recommend MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=131072 for glibc
The 131072 byte lower bound was the old default before the
sliding mmap window was introduced in modern glibc malloc.
While the sliding mmap window was intended to be faster by
reducing syscalls, zeroing and kernel overhead, it is also prone
to fragmentation from allocation patterns seen in evented Perl
servers.
Individual allocations over 128K are rare in our codebase since
there aren't many messages this large, making any performance
impact tiny. Furthermore, the reduction in fragmentation and
memory use will be a speedup for memory-constrained systems
since they can avoid swap and have more leftover for the page
cache.
Eric Wong [Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:56:29 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
lei: use async barrier for --import-before
Write barriers can take a long time to finish, especially when
commands are issues in parallel. So handle it asynchronously
without blocking lei-daemon by making EOFpipe a little more
flexible by supporting arguments to the callback function.
This is another step towards improving parallel use of lei.
Eric Wong [Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:56:28 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
lei/store: stop shard workers + cat-file on idle
Schedule a timer to stop shard workers and the git-cat-file
process after a `barrier' command. This allows us to save some
memory again when the lei-daemon is idle but preserves the fork
overhead reduction when issuing many commands in parallel or in
quick succession.
Eric Wong [Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:56:27 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
lei: use ->barrier to commit to lei/store
barrier (synchronous checkpoint) is better than ->done with
parallel lei commands being issued (via '&' or different
terminals), since repeatedly stopping and restarting processes
doesn't play nicely with expensive tasks like `lei reindex'.
This introduces a slight regression in maintaining more
processes (and thus resource use) when lei is idle, but that'll
be fixed in the next commit.
Eric Wong [Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:04:13 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
io: avoid redundant waitpid in DESTROY
We shouldn't attempt to reap a process again after it's been
reaped asynchronously in the SIGCHLD handler. Noticed while
working on changes to get lei/store to use checkpointing.
Eric Wong [Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:04:12 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
lei_remote: solver supports uncommitted blobs
This should improve `lei blob' and `lei rediff' functionality
for folks relying on `lei index' and allows future work to
improve parallelism via checkpointing in lei/store.
Eric Wong [Fri, 12 Apr 2024 02:01:03 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
lei q: support --thread-id=$MSGID || -T $MSGID
This adds support for the "POST /$INBOX/$MSGID/?x=m?q=..."
added last year to support per-thread searches 764035c83 (www: support POST /$INBOX/$MSGID/?x=m&q=, 2023-03-30)
This only supports instances of public-inbox since 764035c83,
but unfortunately there hasn't been a release since then.
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:49:21 +0000 (09:49 +0000)]
www: speed up global manifest.js.gz w/ "all" extindex
By reducing internal event loop iterations, this brings 300+
inboxes down ~32ms to ~27ms. It should also be more consistent
on servers with busy event loops since all the Xapian DB traffic
happens at once, theoretically mproving cache utilization.
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:48:43 +0000 (09:48 +0000)]
syscall: set default constants for Inline::C platforms
This fixes compile errors on platforms we can't explicitly
support from pure Perl due to the lack of syscall stability
guarantees by the OS developers.
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Apr 2024 06:49:38 +0000 (06:49 +0000)]
treewide: avoid getpid for more ownership checks
There are still some places where on_destroy isn't suitable,
This gets rid of getpid() calls in most of those cases to
reduce syscall costs and cleanup syscall trace output.
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Apr 2024 06:49:37 +0000 (06:49 +0000)]
treewide: avoid getpid() for OnDestroy checks
getpid() isn't cached by glibc nowadays and system calls are
more expensive due to CPU vulnerability mitigations. To
ensure we switch to the new semantics properly, introduce
a new `on_destroy' function to simplify callers.
Furthermore, most OnDestroy correctness is often tied to the
process which creates it, so make the new API default to
guarded against running in subprocesses.
For cases which require running in all children, a new
PublicInbox::OnDestroy::all call is provided.
Eric Wong [Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:40:12 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
codesearch: deduplicate $git->{nick} field
While PublicInbox::Config is responsible for some instances of
setting $git->{nick}, more PublicInbox::Git objects may be
created from loading the cindex and we should do our best to
reuse that memory, too.
I may be mistaken, but I suspect the reason jemalloc handles
long-lived processes better than glibc is due to granularity
reduction being scaled to larger size classes. This can waste
20% of an individual allocation, but increases the likelyhood
of reuse (without splitting/consolidating into other sizes).
In other words, glibc seems to try too hard to make the best fit
for initial allocations. This ends up being suboptimal over
time as those allocations are freed and similar (but not
identical) allocations come in. jemalloc sacrifices the best
initial fit for better fits over a long process lifetime.
Eric Wong [Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:40:10 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
codesearch: deduplicate {ibx_score} name pairs
With my current mirror of lore + gko, this saves over 300K
allocations and brings the allocation count in this area down
to under 5K. The reduction in AV refs saves around 45MB RAM
according to measurements done live via Devel::Mwrap.
Eric Wong [Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:40:09 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
www: use a dedicated limiter for blob solver
Wrap the entire solver command chain with a dedicated limiter.
The normal limiter is designed for longer-lived commands or ones
which serve a single HTTP request (e.g. git-http-backend or
cgit) and not effective for short memory + CPU intensive commands
used for solver.
Each overall solver request is both memory + CPU intensive: it
spawns several short-lived git processes(*) in addition to a
longer-lived `git cat-file --batch' process.
Thus running parallel solvers from a single -netd/-httpd worker
(which have their own parallelization) results in excessive
parallelism that is both memory and CPU-bound (not network-bound)
and cascade into slowdowns for handling simpler memory/CPU-bound
requests. Parallel solvers were also responsible for the
increased lifetime and frequency of zombies since the event loop
was too saturated to reap them.
We'll also return 503 on excessive solver queueing, since these
require an FD for the client HTTP(S) socket to be held onto.
(*) git (update-index|apply|ls-files) are all run by solver and
short-lived
Eric Wong [Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:06:15 +0000 (10:06 +0000)]
listener: don't loop on errors
Fortunately, this only affects `--multi-accept=' users, with
`--multi-accept=-1' users getting infinite loops.
I noticed this when EMFILE was reached on my setup, but any
error should cause us to give up accept(2) (at least
temporarily) and allow work for other items in the event loop to
be processed.
Eric Wong [Fri, 8 Mar 2024 21:05:04 +0000 (21:05 +0000)]
import: croak (instead of die) on write failures
This allows accurate reporting of the error location and can be
made to dump a Perl backtrace via PERL5OPT='-MCarp=verbose'.
Noticed while tracking down fast-import failures.
Eric Wong [Mon, 4 Mar 2024 21:10:46 +0000 (21:10 +0000)]
dedupe inbox names, coderepo nicks + git dirs
Inbox names, coderepo nicks, git_dir values are used heavily
as hash keys by the read-only coderepo WWW pieces.
Relying on CoW for mutable scalars on newer Perl doesn't work
well since CoW for those scalars are limited to 256 CoW references
and blow past that number when mapping thousands of coderepos
and inboxes to each other. Instead, make the hash key up-front
and get the resulting string to point directly to the pointer
used by the hash key.
Eric Wong [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:42:42 +0000 (09:42 +0000)]
eml: reuse ->decode buffer
It's not really relevant at the moment, but a sufficiently
smart implementation could eventually save some memory here.
Perl already optimizes in-place sort (@x = sort @x), so there's
precedent for a potential future where a Perl implementation
could generally optimize in-place operations for non-builtin
subroutines, too.
Eric Wong [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:42:41 +0000 (09:42 +0000)]
eml: avoid anonymous __WARN__ sub for encode/decode
Repeatedly allocating an anonymous sub is an expensive operation
and a potential source of leaks in older Perl. Instead,
`local'-ize a global and use a permanent sub to workaround the
old Encode 2.87..3.12 leak.
Eric Wong [Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:28:03 +0000 (21:28 +0000)]
xap_helper_cxx: -O2 optimize read-only files by default
While fast build times from -O0 is critical to my sanity when
actively working on C++, the files installed via package
managers or `make install' aren't likely to change frequently.
In that case, expensive -O2 optimizations make sense since the
10-20s saved from a single large --join more than covers the
cost of waiting on g++ to optimize.
Eric Wong [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:31:29 +0000 (09:31 +0000)]
doc: fix formatting for CLI switch aliases
`=item' elements in Pod need to be surrounded by empty lines.
It's an unfortunate waste of vertical space, but Pod is still better
than *roff and usually available out-of-the-box.
Eric Wong [Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:31:27 +0000 (09:31 +0000)]
www: cgit: support non-standard cgitrc locations
If publicinbox.cgitrc is set in the config file, we'll ensure
cgit sees it as CGIT_CONFIG since the configured
publicinbox.cgitrc knob may not be the default path the cgit.cgi
binary was configured to use.
Furthermore, we'll respect CGIT_CONFIG in the environment if
publicinbox.cgitrc is unset in the config file at -httpd/-netd
startup.
Eric Wong [Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:50 +0000 (13:13 +0000)]
viewvcs: HTML fixes for commits
The "patch is too large to show" text is now broken by an <hr>
to prevent it from being confused as part of a commit message
(or having somebody intentionally insert that text in a commit
message to confuse readers). A missing </pre> is also necessary
before the <hr> tag for the related commit search form.
Eric Wong [Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:49 +0000 (13:13 +0000)]
viewvcs: parallelize commit display
Similar to commit cbe2548c91859dfb923548ea85d8531b90d53dc3
(www_coderepo: use OnDestroy to render summary view,
2023-04-09), we can rely on OnDestroy and Qspawn to run
dependencies in a structured way and with some extra parallelism
for SMP users.
Perl (as opposed to POSIX sh) allows us to easily avoid
expensive patch generation for large root commits, and also avoid
needless `git patch-id' invocations for patches which are too
big to show.
Avoiding patch-id alone saved nearly 2s from the linux.git root
commit[1] with patch generation enabled and brought response
times down to ~6s (still slow). Avoiding patch generation for
root commits brings it down to a few hundred milliseconds on a
public-facing server (nobody wants a 355MB patch rendered as
HTML, right?).
Eric Wong [Fri, 9 Feb 2024 09:33:01 +0000 (09:33 +0000)]
view: decode In-Reply-To comments added by some MUAs
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] view: decode In-Reply-To comments added by Gnus
> Or just "some MUAs"? Who knows who else...
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more...
---8<---
Subject: [PATCH] view: decode In-Reply-To comments added by some MUAs
Emacs-based MUAs (e.g. Gnus and rmail) can do it, and maybe
some others, too. I noticed it in
<https://yhbt.net/lore/git/xmqqr0ho9oi9.fsf@gitster.g/>
while scanning for something else.
Eric Wong [Thu, 1 Feb 2024 20:59:48 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
pop3d: support fcntl locks on OpenBSD i386
The packaged Perl on OpenBSD i386 supports 64-bit file offsets
but not 64-bit integer support for 'q' and 'Q' with `pack'.
Since servers aren't likely to require lock files larger than
2 GB (we'd need an inbox with >2 billion messages), we can
workaround the Perl build limitation with explicit padding.
File::FcntlLock isn't packaged for OpenBSD <= 7.4 (but should be
in future releases), but I can test i386 OpenBSD on an extremely
slow VM.
Big endian support can be done, too, but I have no idea if
there's 32-bit BE users around nowadays...
Eric Wong [Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:20:20 +0000 (10:20 +0000)]
lei: sort MH inputs sequentially by default
MH sequence numbers can be analogous to IMAP UIDs and NNTP
article numbers (or more like IMAP MSNs with clients which
pack). In any case, sort then numerically by default to avoid
surprising users who treat NNTP spools and mlmmj archives as MH
folders. This gives more coherent git history and resulting
NNTP/IMAP numbering when round-tripping MH -> v2 -> (NNTP|IMAP) -> MH
Eric Wong [Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:20:18 +0000 (10:20 +0000)]
scripts/slrnspool2maildir: use MHreader and LeiToMail
This contains gmane-specific header munging to unmunge the
things gmane dones to headers. While we're at it, document the
generic `lei convert' invocation for users who don't need the
gmane-specific header munging.
Eric Wong [Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:20:49 +0000 (10:20 +0000)]
lei_to_mail: improve SIGPIPE handling
I can't reproduce this in t/lei-sigpipe.t with GIANT_INBOX_DIR.
In real-world usage, having a large `lei q -f text ...' output
piped to a pager and killing the pager prematurely could
trigger:
non-fatal error from PublicInbox::LeiToMail $?=256
messages in my terminal. This is because $self->{lei} was
becoming undefined in the process cleanup process of
git_to_mail. So flip the cleanup logic around and
unconditionally check for Git::cleanup state to bail out
early.
With this change, the `non-fatal error ...' message no longer
appears when I stop reading results early.
Eric Wong [Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:22:21 +0000 (07:22 +0000)]
spawn: support some rlimit uses via Inline::C
BSD::Resource isn't packaged for Alpine (as of 3.19), but we
also have optional Inline::C support and already rely on calling
setrlimit(2) directly from the Inline::C version of pi_fork_exec.