The current system makes / lets GC run during fetching. This has a few
issues:
- the autogc consumes resources during the forward-porting
process (not that it's hugely urgent but it seems unnecessary)
- the autogc commonly fails due to the combination of large repository
(odoo/odoo) and low memory limits (hardmem for odoo, which get
translated into soft ulimits)
As a result, the garbage collection of the repository sometimes stops
entirely, leading to an increase in repository size and a decrease in
performances.
To mitigate this issue, disable the automagic gc and maintenance
during normal operation, and instead add a weekly cron which runs an
aggressive GC with memory limits disabled (as far as they can get, if
the limits are imposed externally there's nothing to be done).
The maintenance is implemented using a full lockout of the
forward-port cron and an in-place GC rather than a copy/gc/swap, as
doing this maintenance at the small hours of the week-end (sat-sun
night) seems like a non-issue: currently an aggressive GC of odoo/odoo
(using the default aggressive options) takes a total of 2:30 wallclock
(5h user) on a fairly elderly machine (it's closer to 20mn wallclock
and 2h user on my local machine, also turns out the cache repos are
kinda badly configured leading to ~30% more objects than necessary
which doesn't help).
For the record, a fresh checkout of odoo/odoo right now yields:
| Overall repository size | |
| * Commits | |
| * Count | 199 k |
| * Total size | 102 MiB |
| * Trees | |
| * Count | 1.60 M |
| * Total size | 2.67 GiB |
| * Total tree entries | 74.1 M |
| * Blobs | |
| * Count | 1.69 M |
| * Total size | 72.4 GiB |
If this still proves insufficient, a further option would be to deploy
a "generational repacking" strategy:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/issues/2861 (though apparently
it's not yet been implemented / deployed on gitlab so...).
But for now we'll see how it shakes out.
Close#489
If a PR is *merged*, enqueue it for deletion (with a 2 weeks delay).
Mainly to avoid FW branches staying around long after they've been
merged (possibly eventually closed?), will also clean up regular
merged branches, including historical merges forgotten by their
author.
Fixes#230
When posting a reminder that there are open / waiting forward ports on
a source PR, also post *which* PRs those are.
While at it, move the cron code in a proper python file (so we can use
stuff from odoo.tools), and fix display_name so we can straight use
display_name as a github ref' ({owner}/{repo}#{number}). This impacts
log-grepping but it seems like an improvement nonetheless.
Closesodoo/runbot#228
Having all the feedback be sent by the mergebot user (github_token) is
confusing. Add a way to specify which field of project should be used to
source the token used when sending feedback.
Fixes#190
* don't warn on every PR on the dot every week, instead wait for the
PRs to be "sufficiently old" (at least 3 days)
* after discussion with bugfix, the reminder ping should be sent every
day following the PR being "old enough"
* run the cron every day instead of every week
* add an override context key for test purposes
Closes#198
* Cherrypicking is handrolled because there seems to be no easy way to
programmatically edit commit messages during the cherrypicking
sequence: `-n` basically squashes all commits and `-e` invokes a
subprocess. `-e` with `VISUAL=false` kinda sorta works (in that it
interrupts the process before each commit), however there doesn't
seem to be clean status codes so it's difficult to know if the
cherrypick failed or if it's just waiting for a commit of this step.
Instead, cherrypick commits individually then edit / rewrite their
commit messages:
* add a reference to the original commit
* convert signed-off-by to something else as the original commit was
signed off but not necessarily this one
* Can't assign users when creating PRs: only repository collaborators
or people who commented on the issue / PR (which we're in the
process of creating) can be assigned.
PR authors are as likely to be collaborators as not, and we can have
non-collaborator reviewers. So pinging via a regular comment seems
less fraught as a way to notify users.
