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Eelco Dolstra
15c15da482 Add some missing --version switches 2012-07-11 18:07:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
d287b62b64 Set the User-Agent header to "Nix/<version>" 2012-07-11 18:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b74d92755d download-from-binary-cache: Use HEAD requests if possible
In "nix-env -qas", we don't need the substitute info, we just need to
know if it exists.  This can be done using a HTTP HEAD request, which
saves bandwidth.

Note however that curl currently has a bug that prevents it from
reusing HTTP connections if HEAD requests return a 404:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3542731&group_id=976&atid=100976

Without the patch attached to the issue, using HEAD is actually quite
a bit slower than GET.
2012-07-11 17:53:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
09a6321aeb Replace hasSubstitutes() with querySubstitutablePaths()
querySubstitutablePaths() takes a set of paths, so this greatly
reduces daemon <-> client latency.
2012-07-11 17:52:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58ef4d9a95 Add a function queryValidPaths()
queryValidPaths() combines multiple calls to isValidPath() in one.
This matters when using the Nix daemon because it reduces latency.
For instance, on "nix-env -qas \*" it reduces execution time from 5.7s
to 4.7s (which is indistinguishable from the non-daemon case).
2012-07-11 11:08:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
667d5f1936 Rename queryValidPaths() to queryAllValidPaths() 2012-07-11 10:49:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb3036da87 Implement querySubstitutablePathInfos() in the daemon
Also removed querySubstitutablePathInfo().
2012-07-11 10:43:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6586414bc7 nix-env: Determine which paths have substitutes in parallel 2012-07-11 10:14:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5ee8944155 Cleanup 2012-07-11 10:13:16 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
eae802459d Pass --insecure to curl so that https works 2012-07-09 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2dd3117c27 Inline fetchurl.sh 2012-07-09 15:48:55 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51f9f9924b Add a test for the fetchurl function 2012-07-09 15:41:43 -04:00
Shea Levy
035aa11403 Remove obsolete comment 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
a2865f6b3d corepkgs/fetchurl: Build locally and outside of the chroot 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
53f52c2111 corepkgs/fetchurl: the 'system' argument can be optional 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
543bf742c9 corepkgs: distribute fetchurl files 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
f863673a90 corepkgs/fetchurl: Call the shell directly instead of using the shebang 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
a994eb92a4 corepkgs/fetchurl.sh: Use config.nix's curl 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
9d94a28bed The fetchurl builder is now fetchurl.sh 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
fd2630e1f7 Remove old fetchurl makefile 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
6450f5699f Move fetchurl files out of their subdirectory 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
40c01ec467 corepkgs/config.nix.in: We'll need curl 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Shea Levy
c4df747267 Resurrect old corepkgs fetchurl 2012-07-09 15:29:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
27f0c34390 Really fix RPM builds 2012-07-09 13:16:09 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae72be1b8b Add WWW::Curl as a dependency 2012-07-09 13:11:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a560124cdf Fix RPM builds
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2784908
2012-07-09 11:58:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
087dee6e1b Get rid of nix.conf.example
No need to duplicate the nix.conf manpage.
2012-07-09 11:56:55 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5755a5c354 Install a nix.conf manpage 2012-07-09 11:33:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
099125435f download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options 2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
98a423b75a prim_import(): prefetch substitute info in parallel using queryMissing() 2012-07-09 09:59:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
425cc612ad build.cc: Don't use hasSubstitute()
Instead make a single call to querySubstitutablePathInfo() per
derivation output.  This is faster and prevents having to implement
the "have" function in the binary cache substituter.
2012-07-08 18:39:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
400e556b34 Cleanup 2012-07-08 18:39:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
11800e6198 download-from-binary-cache: parallelise fetching of NAR info files
Getting substitute information using the binary cache substituter has
non-trivial latency overhead.  A package or NixOS system configuration
can have hundreds of dependencies, and in the worst case (when the
local info cache is empty) we have to do a separate HTTP request for
each of these.  If the ping time to the server is t, getting N info
files will take tN seconds; e.g., with a ping time of 0.1s to
nixos.org, sequentially downloading 1000 info files (a typical NixOS
config) will take at least 100 seconds.

To fix this problem, the binary cache substituter can now perform
requests in parallel.  This required changing the substituter
interface to support a function querySubstitutablePathInfos() that
queries multiple paths at the same time, and rewriting queryMissing()
to take advantage of parallelism.  (Due to local caching,
parallelising queryMissing() is sufficient for most use cases, since
it's almost always called before building a derivation and thus fills
the local info cache.)

For example, parallelism speeds up querying all 1056 paths in a
particular NixOS system configuration from 116s to 2.6s.  It works so
well because the eccentricity of the top-level derivation in the
dependency graph is only 9.  So we only need 10 round-trips (when
using an unlimited number of parallel connections) to get everything.

Currently we do a maximum of 150 parallel connections to the server.
Thus it's important that the binary cache server (e.g. nixos.org) has
a high connection limit.  Alternatively we could use HTTP pipelining,
but WWW::Curl doesn't support it and libcurl has a hard-coded limit of
5 requests per pipeline.
2012-07-06 19:08:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cd94665f38 download-from-binary-cache: use WWW::Curl
Using WWW::Curl rather than running an external curl process for every
NAR info file halves the time it takes to get info thanks to libcurl's
support for persistent HTTP connections.  (We save a roundtrip per
file.)  But the real gain will come from using parallel and/or
pipelined requests.
2012-07-06 00:30:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae60643c15 download-from-binary-cache: do negative NAR info caching
I.e. if a NAR info file does *not* exist, we record it in the cache DB
so that we don't retry it later.
2012-07-03 18:54:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
89380c03e9 download-from-binary-cache: in queries, preferred cached info 2012-07-03 18:35:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a8e5c8b11 download-from-binary-cache: strip trailing / from URLs 2012-07-03 17:47:01 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
d694c599e2 download-from-binary-cache: cache binary cache info in a SQLite DB 2012-07-03 17:29:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8319b1ab9f download-from-binary-cache: Verify NAR hashes 2012-07-02 18:53:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cf49472d60 nix-push: Always generate base-32 hashes 2012-07-02 18:05:57 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ec7460af1 Binary caches: use a better key
Use the hash part of the store path as a key rather than a hash of the
store path.  This is enough to get the desired privacy property.
2012-07-02 12:42:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6b1e671ac6 Fix xz compression 2012-07-01 21:57:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
440adfbdd1 Add an environment variable $NIX_BINARY_CACHES specifying URLs of binary caches 2012-07-01 21:55:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f4190c38ba Allow both bzip2 and xz compression 2012-07-01 18:46:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
000132cbd1 nix-push: Don't pollute the current directory with result symlink 2012-06-29 18:30:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
37f7098464 First attempt at the manifest-less substituter 2012-06-29 18:28:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
91b8814f0d Doh 2012-06-29 17:16:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4911a10a4e Use XZ compression in binary caches
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2.  Here are the
compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on
my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB):

  bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08]
  xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53]
  xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19]
  xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18]
  xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40]

Note that compression takes much longer.  More importantly, however,
decompression is much faster:

  bzip2: 1m47.274s
  xz -6: 0m55.446s
  xz -7: 0m54.119s
  xz -8: 0m52.388s
  xz -9: 0m51.842s

The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair
amount (~65 MB) of memory.
2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
49cd7387ad nix-push: create a manifest-less binary cache
Manifests are a huge pain, since users need to run nix-pull directly
or indirectly to obtain them.  They tend to be large and lag behind
the available binaries; also, the downloaded manifests in
/nix/var/nix/manifest need to be in sync with the Nixpkgs sources.  So
we want to get rid of them.

The idea of manifest-free operation works as follows.  Nix is
configured with a set of URIs of binary caches, e.g.

  http://nixos.org/binary-cache

Whenever Nix needs a store path X, it checks each binary cache for the
existence of a file <CACHE-URI>/<SHA-256 hash of X>.narinfo, e.g.

  http://nixos.org/binary-cache/bi1gh9...ia17.narinfo

The .narinfo file contains the necessary information about the store
path that was formerly kept in the manifest, i.e., (relative) URI of
the compressed NAR, references, size, hash, etc.  For example:

  StorePath: /nix/store/xqp4l88cr9bxv01jinkz861mnc9p7qfi-neon-0.29.6
  URL: 1bjxbg52l32wj8ww47sw9f4qz0r8n5vs71l93lcbgk2506v3cpfd.nar.bz2
  CompressedHash: sha256:1bjxbg52l32wj8ww47sw9f4qz0r8n5vs71l93lcbgk2506v3cpfd
  CompressedSize: 202542
  NarHash: sha256:1af26536781e6134ab84201b33408759fc59b36cc5530f57c0663f67b588e15f
  NarSize: 700440
  References: 043zrsanirjh8nbc5vqpjn93hhrf107f-bash-4.2-p24 cj7a81wsm1ijwwpkks3725661h3263p5-glibc-2.13 ...
  Deriver: 4idz1bgi58h3pazxr3akrw4fsr6zrf3r-neon-0.29.6.drv
  System: x86_64-linux

Nix then knows that it needs to download

  http://nixos.org/binary-cache/1bjxbg52l32wj8ww47sw9f4qz0r8n5vs71l93lcbgk2506v3cpfd.nar.bz2

to substitute the store path.

Note that the store directory is omitted from the References and
Deriver fields to save space, and that the URL can be relative to the
binary cache prefix.

This patch just makes nix-push create binary caches in this format.
The next step is to make a substituter that supports them.
2012-06-28 17:19:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
1aba0bf0fa nix-store -r: do substitutions in parallel
I.e. when multiple non-derivation arguments are passed to ‘nix-store
-r’ to be substituted, do them in parallel.
2012-06-27 16:58:15 -04:00