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We spawn an external pack-objects process to actually send objects to
the remote side. If we are killed by a signal during this process, then
pack-objects may continue to run. As soon as it starts producing output
for the pack, it will see a failure writing to upload-pack and exit
itself. But before then, it may do significant work traversing the
object graph, compressing deltas, etc, which will all be pointless. So
let's make sure to kill as soon as we know that the caller will not read
the result.
There's no test here, since it's inherently racy, but here's an easy
reproduction is on a large-ish repo like linux.git:
- make sure you don't have pack bitmaps (since they make the enumerating
phase go quickly). For linux.git it takes ~30s or so to walk the
whole graph on my machine.
- run "git clone --no-local -q . dst"; the "-q" is important because
if pack-objects is writing progress to upload-pack (to get
multiplexed over the sideband to the client), then it will notice
pretty quickly the failure to write to stderr
- kill the client-side clone process in another terminal (don't use
^C, as that will send SIGINT to all of the processes)
- run "ps au | grep git" or similar to observe upload-pack dying
within 5 seconds (it will send a keepalive that will notice the
client has gone away)
- but you'll still see pack-objects consuming 100% CPU (and 1GB+ of
RAM) during the traversal and delta compression phases. It will exit
as soon as it starts to write the pack (when it will notice that
upload-pack went away).
With this patch, pack-objects exits as soon as upload-pack does.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks