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2018-04-07over: remove forked subprocess
Since the overview stuff is a synchronization point anyways, move it into the main V2Writable process and allow us to drop a bunch of code. This is another step towards making Xapian optional for v2. In other words, the fan-out point is moved and the Xapian partitions no longer need to synchronize against each other: Before: /-------->\ /---------->\ v2writable -->+----parts----> over \---------->/ \-------->/ After: /----------> /-----------> v2writable --> over-->+----parts---> \-----------> \----------> Since the overview/threading logic needs to run on the same core that feeds git-fast-import, it's slower for small repos but is not noticeable in large imports where I/O wait in the partitions dominates.
2018-04-02v2writable: simplify barrier vs checkpoints
searchidx_checkpoint was too convoluted and confusing. Since barrier is mostly the same thing; use that instead and add an fsync option for the overview DB.
2018-04-02replace Xapian skeleton with SQLite overview DB
This ought to provide better performance and scalability which is less dependent on inbox size. Xapian does not seem optimized for some queries used by the WWW homepage, Atom feeds, XOVER and NEWNEWS NNTP commands. This can actually make Xapian optional for NNTP usage, and allow more functionality to work without Xapian installed. Indexing performance was extremely bad at first, but DBI::Profile helped me optimize away problematic queries.