From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Holding on to deleted packfiles
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:06:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210921190653.GA16367@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210921144754.gulkneuulzo27qbw@meerkat.local>
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> A large git repack job that ran over the weekend revealed a minor problem --
> public-inbox daemon processes will hold on to deleted pack files until they
> are restarted. Is there any way to gracefully recognize and handle this
> condition? It's not quite benign, as this ended up keeping 40GB+ worth of
> inodes from being released.
Was this from /all/ (ALL.git using batch-file) or Gcf2?
The old stuff has timers to do periodic cleanup, but the new
stuff is trickier as the cost of a restart is higher...
It should be alright to wire up the old timers to ALL.git with
(hundreds) of inboxes lore currently has. git 2.33+ should be
better when we get into the thousands; but it's still not
great.
Gcf2/libgit2 startup time is slow compared to git 2.33+, but
I can write a dumb fstat loop to periodically look for
st_nlink==0...
At some point, I'd like to fix git.git to release packs
(and add alternates dynamically)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-21 14:47 Holding on to deleted packfiles Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-21 19:06 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-09-21 20:57 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-21 21:37 ` Eric Wong
2021-09-22 9:45 ` [PATCH] gcf2 + extsearch: check for unlinked files on Linux Eric Wong
2021-09-22 19:51 ` Eric Wong
2021-09-23 0:46 ` [PATCH 2/1] daemons: revamp periodic cleanup task Eric Wong
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