Eric Wong [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 05:06:00 +0000 (05:06 +0000)]
search: avoid repeated mbox results from search
Previous search queries already set sort order on the Enquire
object, altering the ordering of results and was causing
messages to be redundantly downloaded via POST /$INBOX/?q=$QUERY&x=m
So stop caching the Search::Xapian::Enquire object since it
wasn't providing any measurable performance improvement.
Eric Wong [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:46:41 +0000 (04:46 +0000)]
searchview: do not blindly append "l" parameter to URL
It's ugly and all of our other parameters are omitted
when values are not the default.
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:27:21 +0000 (10:27 +0000)]
TODO: add EPOLLEXCLUSIVE item
Threads are generally discouraged in Perl5, so I won't be using
a dedicated blocking accept4() thread like I would in other
languages.
Eric Wong [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:16:54 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
view: drop redundant References: display code
We no longer need to parse and dedupe References:
ourselves, PublicInbox::MID::references does it for us.
Eric Wong [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:16:53 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
view: wrap To: and Cc: headers in HTML display
It is common to have large amounts of addresses Cc:-ed in large
mailing lists like LKML. Make them more readable by wrapping
after addresses. Unfortunately, line breaks inserted by the
MUA get lost when using the public Email::MIME API.
Subject and body lines remain unwrapped, as it's the author's
fault to have such long lines :P
Eric Wong [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:16:52 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
view: untangle loop when showing message headers
The old loop did not help with code clarity with the various
conditional statements. It also hid a bug where we forgot to
(optionally) obfuscate email addresses in Subject: lines if
search was enabled.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 22 Apr 2018 08:01:48 +0000 (08:01 +0000)]
extmsg: use Xapian only for partial matches
"LIKE" in SQLite (and other SQL implementations I've seen) is
expensive with nearly 3 million messages in the archives.
This caused some partial Message-ID lookups to take over 600ms
on my workstation (~300ms on a faster Xeon). Cut that to below
under 30ms on average on my workstation by relying exclusively
on Xapian for partial Message-ID lookups as we have in the past.
Unlike in the past when we tried using Xapian to match partial
Message-IDs; we now optimize our indexing of Message-IDs to
break apart "words" in Message-IDs for searching, yielding
(hopefully) "good enough" accuracy for folks who get long URLs
broken across lines when copy+pasting.
We'll also drop the (in retrospect) pointless stripping of
"/[tTf]" suffixes for the partial match, since anybody who
hits that codepath would be hitting an invalid message ID.
Finally, limit wildcard expansion to prevent easy DoS vectors
on short terms.
And blame Pine and alpine for generating Message-IDs with
low-entropy prefixes :P
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:21:56 +0000 (07:21 +0000)]
convert: copy description and git config from v1 repo
I noticed I lost a $GIT_DIR/description in a conversion, so we
should preserve it. While we're at it, we ought to copy any
config in the old repo to the new one.
We will need to warn about cloneurl since it's unfortunately
not an automatic process to update. Oh well..
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:27:39 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
searchidx: remove leftover debugging code
I was using this to trace the path of brian's message.
Fixes: 017fed7bc4d33ac4
("searchidx: regenerate and avoid article number gaps on full index")
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:27:38 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
searchidx: release lock again during v1 batch callback
Relaxing this lock during a v1 --reindex is important to keep
messages showing up in -watch process in a timely manner.
Looks like I deleted an extra line when doing the following
for v2:
s/xdb->commit_transaction/self->commit_txn_lazy/
Fixes: 35ff6bb106909b1c ("replace Xapian skeleton with SQLite overview DB")
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:27:37 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
disallow "\t" and "\n" in OVER headers
For Subject/To/Cc/From headers, we squeeze them to a space (' ').
For Message-IDs (including References/In-Reply-To), '\t', '\n', '\r'
are deleted since some MUAs might screw them up:
https://public-inbox.org/git/
656C30A1EFC89F6B2082D9B6@localhost/raw
Eric Wong [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:01:04 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
import: cleanup git cat-file processes when ->done
This should reduce idle cat-file instances
Eric Wong [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:42:05 +0000 (22:42 +0000)]
filter/rubylang: do not set altid on spam training
I suppose it's a bug or inconsistency that altid is write-only
and their deletions do not get reflected. But for now, we
do not set it when training spam so there's no window where
an invalid NNTP article number shows up.
This should solve the problem where there's massive gaps
in messages solved by spam training for ruby groups:
https://public-inbox.org/meta/
20180307093754.GA27748@dcvr/
Eric Wong [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:43:59 +0000 (19:43 +0000)]
TODO: a few more updates
Mainly, v2 stuff is done
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:23:32 +0000 (19:23 +0000)]
fix tests to run without Xapian installed
We'll be ensuring we can run more of the HTTP and all of the
NNTP interface with only SQLite (and not Xapian) installed
in the future.
Eric Wong [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:27:44 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
ensure SQLite and Xapian files respect core.sharedRepository
We can't have files with permissions inconsistent with what's
in git objects.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:58:35 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into v2
* origin/master:
nntp: allow and ignore empty commands
mbox: do not barf on queries which return no results
nntp: fix NEWNEWS command
searchview: fix non-numeric comparison
Allow specification of the number of search results to return
githttpbackend: avoid infinite loop on generic PSGI servers
http: fix modification of read-only value
extmsg: use news.gmane.org for Message-ID lookups
extmsg: rework partial MID matching to favor current inbox
Update the installation instructions with Fedora package names
nntp: do not drain rbuf if there is a command pending
nntp: improve fairness during XOVER and similar commands
searchidx: do not modify Xapian DB while iterating
Don't use LIMIT in UPDATE statements
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:33:56 +0000 (20:33 +0000)]
searchidx: revert default BATCH_BYTES to 1_000_000
This increases indexing time by around 10% but roughly
halves memory usage of an -index process.
We will probably make this tunable in the future for people
with bigger/smaller machines.
Eric Wong [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:30:22 +0000 (20:30 +0000)]
nntp: allow and ignore empty commands
Somebody hitting "\n" into telnet shouldn't hold a client up
indefinitely and prevent shutdown.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:16 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
searchidx: increase term positions for all text terms
We do not want phrase searches to cross between independent
fields (filenames/Message-ID vs bodies)
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:15 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
use %H consistently to disable abbreviations
We generally do not want git to waste time finding abbreviations
and we do not want the possibility of them becoming ambiguous
over time, either.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:14 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
extmsg: remove expensive git path checks
Searching across different inboxes is expensive without
SQLite (or Xapian) installed, so avoid doing expensive tree
lookups in git. Since SQLite is required for Xapian
support anyways, we won't need to check Xapian, either.
Sites without SQLite installed will simply 404 if somebody
requests a message which isn't in the current inbox.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:13 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
searchidx: regenerate and avoid article number gaps on full index
Some messages to git@vger went missing from Msgmap from old bugs
and became inaccessible via NNTP. Forcing NNTP article numbers
when the overview DB came about made the problem more visible when
reindexing old (v1) repositories as all removed spam messages
took up AUTOINCREMENT numbers again before they were removed.
Having large gaps in NNTP article numbers is not good since it
throws off NNTP clients. This does NOT prevent NNTP clients from
seeing some messages twice, but is better than having them
miss several messages entirely.
We also avoid depending on --reverse in git-log, as
git requires storing an entire commit list in memory for
--reverse, so it's cheaper to store only deleted blobs in the %D
hash since they do not live long.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:12 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
import: cat_blob drops leading 'From ' lines like Inbox
In case people were running old buggy versions from 2016...
(and -convert should probably clean those up, eventually)
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:11 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
v2: improve deduplication checks
First off, decode text portions of messages since some archived
mail I got was converted from quoted-printable or base-64 to
8bit by the original recipient. Attempting to merge them with
my own archives (which had no conversion done) led to
unnecessary duplicates showing up.
Then, normalize CRLF line endings in text portions to LF.
In the headers, we relax the content_id hashing to ignore quotes
and lower-case domain names in To, Cc, and From headers since
some mail processors will alter them.
Finally, I've discovered Email::MIME->new($mime->as_string)
does not always round-trip reliably, so we calculate the
content_id twice on user-supplied messages.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:10 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
v2: generate better Message-IDs for duplicates
While hunting duplicates, I noticed a leading '-' in some
Message-IDs as a result of RFC4648 encoding. While '-' seems
allowed by RFC5322 and URL-friendly (RFC4648), they are uncommon
and make using Message-IDs as arguments for command-line tools
more difficult. So prefix them with a datestamp to at least
give readers some sense of the age. And shorten the "localhost"
hostname to "z" to save space.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:09 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
search: preserve References in Xapian smsg for x=t view
I'm not sure how useful this view is, but it exists for now.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:08 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
v2writable: reduce partititions by one
git fast-import and the main V2Writable process combined takes
about one CPU, so avoid having too many Xapian partitions which
cause unnecessary I/O contention.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:07 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
compact: do not merge v2 repos by default
--no-renumber does not allow merging, and merging is not ideal
for reindexing, either.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:06 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
v1: remove articles from overview DB
Otherwise articles show up again...
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:13:05 +0000 (09:13 +0000)]
feed: respect feedmax, again
Gigantic feeds probably make some clients unhappy,
clamp it to what it was in the past.
Fixes: b9534449ecce2c59 ("view: avoid offset during pagination")
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:54 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
msgmap: speed up minmax with separate queries
This significantly improves the performance of the NNTP GROUP
command with 2.7 million messages from over 250ms to 700us.
SQLite is weird about this, but at least there's a way to
optimize it.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:53 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
store less data in the Xapian document
Since we only query the SQLite over DB for OVER/XOVER; do not
need to waste space storing fields To/Cc/:bytes/:lines or the
XNUM term. We only use From/Subject/References/Message-ID/:blob
in various places of the PSGI code.
For reindexing, we will take advantage of docid stability
in "xapian-compact --no-renumber" to ensure duplicates do not
show up in search results. Since the PSGI interface is the
only consumer of Xapian at the moment, it has no need to
search based on NNTP article number.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:52 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
convert: support converting with altid defined
public-inbox-convert ought to be 100% lossless, now
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:51 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
index: allow specifying --jobs=0 to disable multiprocess
Not everybody needs multiprocess support.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:50 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
v2writable: reduce barriers
Since we handle the overview info synchronously, we only need
barriers in tests, now. We will use asynchronous checkpoints
to sync less-important Xapian data.
For data deduplication, this requires us to hoist out the
cat-blob support in ::Import for reading uncommitted data
in git.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:49 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
over: 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.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:48 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
over: avoid excessive SELECT
No need to read what we don't need into the Perl process.
Fix some broken capitalization while we're at it.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 7 Apr 2018 03:41:47 +0000 (03:41 +0000)]
psgi: ensure /$INBOX/$MESSAGE_ID/T/ endpoint is chronological
We only need to call get_thread beyond 1000 messages for
fetching entire mboxes. It's probably too much for the HTML
display otherwise.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 21:44:39 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
ensure Xapian and SQLite are still optional for v1 tests
Xapian is size-intensive and SQLite is not strictly necessary for v1.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 21:44:38 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
www: favor reading more from SQLite, and less from Xapian
Favor simpler internal APIs this time around, this cuts
a fair amount of code out and takes another step towards
removing Xapian as a dependency for v2 repos.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 21:44:37 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
nntp: set Xref across multiple inboxes
Noted by Jonathan Corbet in https://lwn.net/Articles/748184/
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 21:44:36 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
altid: fix miscopied field name
Oops :x
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:45:28 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
search: index and allow searching by date-time
Dscho found this useful for finding matching git commits based
on AuthorDate in git. Add it to the overview DB format, too;
so in the future we can support v2 repos without Xapian.
https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.
1804041821420.55@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz
https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.20.
1702041206130.3496@virtualbox/
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:45:27 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
over: use only supported and safe SQLite APIs
Some of this jankiness was from early performance problems
and they turned out to be unnecessary measures.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:45:26 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
v2writable: refer to git each repository as "epoch"
This hopefully helps for people who try to understand
this design.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:45:25 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
v2writable: allow tracking parallel versions
For upgrades, this will let users keep an old version
running while performing "public-inbox-index" on the
newest version.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:03:20 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
v2writable: remove redundant remove from Over DB
The Xapian partitions will trigger the removal anyways.
Test this and fix some description/spelling errors
while we're at it.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:12 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
compact: better handling of over.sqlite3* files
Lets not scare users when they encounter files that are supposed
to be there. Then, preserve the journal and pipe.lock, even if
they're supposedly unused due to us holding the inbox-wide lock.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:11 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
support altid mechanism for v2
There's enough gmane links out there in wild that it makes sense
to maintain support for these mappings.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:10 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
searchview: minor cleanup
$mset->size is probably more obvious than relying on a tied
array and saves us a line.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:09 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
mbox: do not sort search results
Sorting large msets is a waste when it comes to mboxes
since MUAs should thread and sort them as the user desires.
This forces us to rework each of the mbox download mechanisms
to be more independent of each other, but might make things
easier to reason about.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:08 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
search: remove unnecessary OP_AND of query
This was vestigial code from the switch to the overview DB
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:07 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
searchmsg: remove unused `tid' and `path' methods
These internal attributes are not exposed and no longer
used in our APIs.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:34:06 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
v2writable: recount partitions after acquiring lock
The partition count can change if public-inbox-compact runs
while public-inbox-watch or public-inbox-index is running.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:25:00 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
v2writable: do not modify DBs while iterating for ->remove
Xapian may become unhappy if a DB is modified during iteration:
nntp://news.gmane.org/
20180228004400.GU12724@survex.com
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:24:59 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
v2: support incremental indexing + purge
This is important for people running mirrors via "git fetch",
as they need to be kept up-to-date. Purging is also now
supported in mirrors.
The short-lived "--regenerate" option is gone and is now
implicitly enabled as a result. It's still cheap when
article number regeneration is unnecessary, as we track
the range for each git repository.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:24:58 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
import: rewrite less history during purge
We do not need to rewrite old commits unaffected by the object_id
purge, only newer commits. This was a state management bug :x
We will also return the new commit ID of rewritten history to
aid in incremental indexing of mirrors for the next change.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:24:57 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
init: s/GIT_DIR/REPO_DIR/ in usage
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:11:47 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
searchidx: ensure duplicated Message-IDs can be linked together
This allows us to emulate the display of thread-aware MUAs when
multiple messages share the same Message-ID. This also is a
place where "public-inbox-index --reindex" is useful to fix
existing messages and no schema version bump is necessary.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:12 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
nntp: simplify the long_response API
We we worked around the default range/termination conditions of
long_response in many cases to reduce calls to SQLite or Xapian.
So continue that trend and become more like the PSGI API
which doesn't force callers to specify an article range or
work inside a loop.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:11 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
msgmap: replace id_batch with ids_after
id_batch had a an overly complicated interface, replace it
with id_batch which is simpler and takes advantage of
selectcol_arrayref in DBI. This allows simplification of
callers and the diffstat agrees with me.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:10 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
mbox: remove remaining OFFSET usage in SQLite
We can use id_batch in the common case to speed up full mbox
retrievals. Gigantic msets are still a problem, but will
be fixed in future commits.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:09 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
view: avoid offset during pagination
OFFSET in SQLite gets painful to deal with. Instead,
rely on timestamps (from Received:) for pagination.
This also sets us up for more precise Date searching
in case we want it.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:08 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
nntp: make XOVER, XHDR, OVER, HDR and NEWNEWS faster
While SQLite is faster than Xapian for some queries we
use, it sucks at handling OFFSET. Fortunately, we do
not need offsets when retrieving sorted results and
can bake it into the query.
For inbox.comp.version-control.git (v1 Xapian),
XOVER and XHDR are over 20x faster.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:07 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
rename+rewrite test using Benchmark module
There'll be more performance-related tests in the future.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:06 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
t/thread-all.t: modernize test to support modern inboxes
We'll be adding more tests in the same vein as this
to improve NNTP performance.
Eric Wong [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 10:34:54 +0000 (10:34 +0000)]
mbox: do not barf on queries which return no results
Having zero search results means we never get a chance
to populate the Content-Disposition header for mbox
downloads.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sat, 3 Mar 2018 20:18:34 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
nntp: fix NEWNEWS command
I guess nobody uses this command (slrnpull does not), and
the breakage was not noticed until I started writing new
tests for multi-MID handling.
Fixes: 3fc411c772a21d8f ("search: drop pointless range processors for Unix timestamp")
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:04:56 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
over: speedup get_thread by avoiding JOIN
JOIN operations on SQLite can be disasterously slow.
This reduces per-message pages with the thread overview
at the bottom of those pages from over 800ms to ~60ms.
In comparison, the v1 code took around 70-80ms using
Xapian on my machine.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:04:55 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
www: rework query responses to avoid COUNT in SQLite
In many cases, we do not care about the total number of
messages. It's a rather expensive operation in SQLite
(Xapian only provides an estimate).
For LKML, this brings top-level /$INBOX/ loading time from
~375ms to around 60ms on my system. Days ago, this operation
was taking 800-900ms(!) for me before introducing the SQLite
overview DB.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:04:54 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
t/over: test empty Subject: line matching
We need to ensure we don't match NULL 'sid' columns in the
`over' table.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:04:53 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
v2writable: 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.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:04:52 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
replace 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.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 06:30:37 +0000 (06:30 +0000)]
search: reduce columns stored in Xapian
We can store :bytes and :lines in doc_data since we never
sort or search by them. We don't have much use for the Date:
stamp at the moment, either.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:24:26 +0000 (23:24 +0000)]
scripts/import_vger_from_mbox: set address properly
For objects like Inbox; the '-' prefixed hash keys are
probably intended for auto-generated/hidden parameters.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:23:44 +0000 (23:23 +0000)]
truncate Message-IDs and References consistently
We need to stop ghost messages from generating longer
Message-IDs than Xapian can handle with terms.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:23:07 +0000 (23:23 +0000)]
v2writable: fix parallel termination
I was too aggressively disabling parallelization to speed up
the test suite and broke this :x Re-enable parallelization
for the v2reindex test so we can catch it later.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:15:04 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
v2: one file, really
We need to ensure there is only one file in the top-level tree
at any commit so the "add; remove; add;" sequence on the same
message is detected properly.
Otherwise, git will not detect the second "add" unless
a second message is added to history.
Deletes are now stored in "d" (and not "D" or "_/D") at the
top-level, now. There's no need to have a "_" to reduce churn
as "m" and "d" should never co-exist. It's now lowercased to
make it easier-to-distinguish from "D" in git-log output.
Eric Wong [Sun, 1 Apr 2018 22:58:19 +0000 (22:58 +0000)]
searchview: fix non-numeric comparison
We don't want non-fully-numeric limits being compared and
tripping warnings. While we're at it, avoid hard-coding
'200' and reuse $LIM as the default.
Jonathan Corbet [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:25:57 +0000 (15:25 -0600)]
Allow specification of the number of search results to return
Add an "l=" parameter to the search query syntax to specify how many
results should be returned.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:55:13 +0000 (20:55 +0000)]
searchidx: correct warning for over-vivification
We will vivify multiple ghosts if a message has multiple
Message-IDs.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:46:31 +0000 (17:46 +0000)]
v2: respect core.sharedRepository in git configs
Ensure -convert and -compact do not make repositories
unreadable on live servers.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:15:25 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
t/v2writable: use simplify permissions reading
We have Git::qx nowadays.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:03:01 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
search: move permissions handling to InboxWritable
We'll be making sure V2Writable uses this.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:31:48 +0000 (20:31 +0000)]
convert: avoid redundant "done\n" statement for fast-import
This bug was hidden due to timing problems with eatmydata or
running with tmpfs for TMPDIR.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:47 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
msgtime: parse 3-digit years properly
Some folks had bad mail clients which generated 3-digit years
around Y2K...
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:48 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
feed: optimize query for feeds, too
This is a smaller improvement than the landing /$INBOX/ page
because full message bodies are shown; but still saves around
100ms for my system with LKML.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:46 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
view: drop load_results
It's no longer necessary to have this since load_expand
now populates $smsg->mid with the "preferred" Message-ID.
This saves around 10ms on the homepage for me.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:45 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
view: speed up homepage loading time with date clamp
This saves over 400ms on my system with the full LKML
with over 2.8 million messages.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:44 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
v2writable: go backwards through alternate Message-IDs
This is consistent with how we internally generate new
Message-IDs to break conflicts and allows ->reindex to
succeed while walking backwards through history
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:43 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
wwwstream: flesh out clone instructions for v2
Relying solely on git for v2 repos is probably not
so useful, so add pointers to public-inbox-init/index
commands.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:42 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
v2writable: convert some fatal reindex errors to warnings
By supporting purge and allowing users to delete git partitions,
we can open up ourselves to gaps and un-reindexible data. Let
that be.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:41 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
v2writable: allow gaps in git partitions
Somebody may only care about the most recent history,
so allow -init and -index to operate quietly on missing
partitions.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:20:40 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
search: warn on reopens and die on total failure
-watch on a busy/giant Maildir caused too many Xapian
errors while attempting to browse.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:17:20 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
mda: support v2 inboxes
I mainly focus on -watch for mirroring busy mailing lists, but
using -mda should remain an option.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:17:19 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
public-inbox-compact: new tool for driving xapian-compact
Having multiple Xapian partitions is mostly pointless after
the initial import. We can compact all the partitions into
one while keeping the skeleton separate.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:17:18 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
v2writable: initializing an existing inbox is idempotent
And we do not want to start making confused repos if somebody
leaves out "-V2" the second time around.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:17:17 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
import: run_die supports redirects as spawn does
We'll be using it in more future tests and scripts.
Eric Wong (Contractor, The Linux Foundation) [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:14:12 +0000 (19:14 +0000)]
search: retry_reopen on first_smsg_by_mid
This was causing errors while attempting to load messages via
the WWW interface while mass-importing LKML. While we're at it,
remove unnecessary eval from lookup_article.