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Upgrade to Cabal-2.0 #600

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hvr opened this issue Jul 16, 2017 · 1 comment
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Upgrade to Cabal-2.0 #600

hvr opened this issue Jul 16, 2017 · 1 comment
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hvr commented Jul 16, 2017 •
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hackage-server is currently Cabal-1.24 based; but we need to upgrade it to Cabal-2.0 real soon. This is expected to provide substantial heap memory savings.
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Avoid orphan TH-derived SafeCopy instances
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Using explicitly spelled out instance implementations results in a more
defensive style which gives the compiler a better chance to notify us
when types changes (and thus potentially the binary serialisation).
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hvr commented Jul 16, 2017 •
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The heap-profiles below show the startup phase of hackage and then idling for a little amount of time.

Cabal 1.24 Heap-profile

Hackage heap profile with Cabal-1.24

Cabal 2.0 Heap-profile

Hackage heap profile with Cabal-2.0

This has been enabled by data-representation optimizations in Cabal (most notably haskell/cabal#3896 and haskell/cabal#3905).

This results in a reduction of about 0.5 GiB worth of (:) heap-objects, which consequently means a reduction of about ~20 million (:) allocated on the heap the GC won't have to traverse anymore! Overall, in terms of actual process-size (i.e. RSS), migrating to Cabal-2.0 translates into saving about 2 GiB of RAM.

TODO: figure out what those (:)-allocation spikes are which are still present late into the startup.

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