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xt/ is typically reserved for "eXtended tests" intended for
the maintainers and not ordinary users. Since these require
special configuration and do nothing by waste cycles
during startup, they qualify.
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We'll also introduce a tmpdir() API to give tempdirs
consistent names.
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Threads are officially discouraged by perl5-porters and proves
problematic with my Perl installation when using run_mode=1
to speed up tests. So just use fork() and pipes to share
results from Net::NNTP.
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We can shave several hundred milliseconds off tests which spawn
daemons by preloading and avoiding startup time for common
modules which are already loaded in the parent process.
This also gives ENV{TAIL} support to all tests which support
daemons which log to stdout/stderr.
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"mainrepo" ws a bad name and artifact from the early days when I
intended for there to be a "spamrepo" (now just the
ENV{PI_EMERGENCY} Maildir). With v2, "mainrepo" can be
especially confusing, since v2 needs at least two git
repositories (epoch + all.git) to function and we shouldn't
confuse users by having them point to a git repository for v2.
Much of our documentation already references "INBOX_DIR" for
command-line arguments, so use "inboxdir" as the
git-config(1)-friendly variant for that.
"mainrepo" remains supported indefinitely for compatibility.
Users may need to revert to old versions, or may be referring
to old documentation and must not be forced to change config
files to account for this change.
So if you're using "mainrepo" today, I do NOT recommend changing
it right away because other bugs can lurk.
Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/874l0ice8v.fsf@alyssa.is/
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This is better than recommending running the script directly because
it will ensure the correct version of perl is used.
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Using Z_FULL_FLUSH at the right places in our event loop, it
appears we can share a single zlib deflate context across ALL
clients in a process.
The zlib deflate context is the biggest factor in per-client
memory use, so being able to share that across many clients
results in a large memory savings.
With 10K idle-but-did-something NNTP clients connected to a
single process on a 64-bit system, TLS+DEFLATE used around
1.8 GB of RSS before this change. It now uses around 300 MB.
TLS via IO::Socket::SSL alone uses <200MB in the same situation,
so the actual memory reduction is over 10x.
This makes compression less efficient and bandwidth increases
around 45% in informal testing, but it's far better than no
compression at all. It's likely around the same level of
compression gzip gives on the HTTP side.
Security implications with TLS? I don't know, but I don't
really care, either... public-inbox-nntpd doesn't support
authentication and it's up to the client to enable compression.
It's not too different than Varnish caching gzipped responses
on the HTTP side and having responses go to multiple HTTPS
clients.
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This is only tested so far with my patches to Net::NNTP at:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129967
Memory use in C10K situations is disappointing, but that's
the nature of compression.
gzip compression over HTTPS does have the advantage of not
keeping zlib streams open when clients are idle, at the
cost of worse compression.
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