0.1.0 tag, checkpoint release.

Upped the user cache capacity and topic cache capacity.
More resource management work. WIP.
Added Hyperdrive to the experimental folder. It doesn't really work right now, but I'd like to track it's progress.
Eliminated a line in global.js

common/null_user_cache.go

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ func NewNullUserCache() *NullUserCache {
 }
 
 // nolint
-func (mus *NullUserCache) DeallocOverflow() {}
+func (mus *NullUserCache) DeallocOverflow(evictPriority bool) (evicted int) {
+	return 0
+}
 func (mus *NullUserCache) Get(id int) (*User, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNoRows
 }

common/user_cache.go

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 
 // UserCache is an interface which spits out users from a fast cache rather than the database, whether from memory or from an application like Redis. Users may not be present in the cache but may be in the database
 type UserCache interface {
-	DeallocOverflow() // May cause thread contention, looks for items to evict
+	DeallocOverflow(evictPriority bool) (evicted int) // May cause thread contention, looks for items to evict
 	Get(id int) (*User, error)
 	GetUnsafe(id int) (*User, error)
 	BulkGet(ids []int) (list []*User)
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func NewMemoryUserCache(capacity int) *MemoryUserCache {
 }
 
 // TODO: Avoid deallocating topic list users
-func (mus *MemoryUserCache) DeallocOverflow() {
+func (mus *MemoryUserCache) DeallocOverflow(evictPriority bool) (evicted int) {
 	var toEvict = make([]int, 10)
 	var evIndex = 0
 	mus.RLock()
@@ -58,6 +58,25 @@ func (mus *MemoryUserCache) DeallocOverflow() {
 	}
 	mus.RUnlock()
 
+	// Clear some of the less active users now with a bit more aggressiveness
+	if evIndex == 0 && evictPriority {
+		toEvict = make([]int, 20)
+		mus.RLock()
+		for _, user := range mus.items {
+			if user.Score < 100 && !user.IsMod {
+				if EnableWebsockets && WsHub.HasUser(user.ID) {
+					continue
+				}
+				toEvict[evIndex] = user.ID
+				evIndex++
+				if evIndex == 20 {
+					break
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		mus.RUnlock()
+	}
+
 	// Remove zero IDs from the evictable list, so we don't waste precious cycles locked for those
 	var lastZero = -1
 	for i, uid := range toEvict {
@@ -70,6 +89,7 @@ func (mus *MemoryUserCache) DeallocOverflow() {
 	}
 
 	mus.BulkRemove(toEvict)
+	return len(toEvict)
 }
 
 // Get fetches a user by ID. Returns ErrNoRows if not present.

config/config_example.json

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 		"MaxRequestSizeStr":"5MB",
 		"UserCache":"static",
 		"TopicCache":"static",
-		"UserCacheCapacity":120,
+		"UserCacheCapacity":150,
-		"TopicCacheCapacity":200,
+		"TopicCacheCapacity":250,
 		"DefaultPath":"/topics/",
 		"DefaultGroup":3,
 		"ActivationGroup":5,

experimental/plugin_hyperdrive.go

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// Highly experimental plugin for caching rendered pages for guests
+package main
+
+import (
+	"sync/atomic"
+
+	"./common"
+)
+
+var hyperPageCache *HyperPageCache
+
+func init() {
+	common.Plugins.Add(&common.Plugin{UName: "hyperdrive", Name: "Hyperdrive", Author: "Azareal", Init: initHyperdrive, Deactivate: deactivateHyperdrive})
+}
+
+func initHyperdrive() error {
+	hyperPageCache = newHyperPageCache()
+	common.Plugins["hyperdrive"].AddHook("somewhere", deactivateHyperdrive)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func deactivateHyperdrive() {
+	hyperPageCache = nil
+}
+
+type HyperPageCache struct {
+	topicList atomic.Value
+}
+
+func newHyperPageCache() *HyperPageCache {
+	pageCache := new(HyperPageCache)
+	pageCache.topicList.Store([]byte(""))
+	return pageCache
+}

install/install.go

@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ func main() {
 		"MaxRequestSizeStr":"5MB",
 		"UserCache":"static",
 		"TopicCache":"static",
-		"UserCacheCapacity":120,
+		"UserCacheCapacity":150,
-		"TopicCacheCapacity":200,
+		"TopicCacheCapacity":250,
 		"DefaultPath":"/topics/",
 		"DefaultGroup":3,
 		"ActivationGroup":5,

main.go

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
-var version = common.Version{Major: 0, Minor: 1, Patch: 0, Tag: "dev"}
+var version = common.Version{Major: 0, Minor: 1, Patch: 0}
 var router *GenRouter
 var logWriter = io.MultiWriter(os.Stderr)
 
@@ -373,13 +373,15 @@ func main() {
 	go tickLoop(thumbChan, halfSecondTicker, secondTicker, fifteenMinuteTicker, hourTicker)
 
 	// Resource Management Goroutine
-	go func() {
+	/*go func() {
 		ucache := common.Users.GetCache()
 		tcache := common.Topics.GetCache()
 		if ucache == nil && tcache == nil {
 			return
 		}
 
+		var lastEvictedCount int
+		var couldNotDealloc bool
 		for {
 			select {
 			case <-secondTicker.C:
@@ -387,13 +389,17 @@ func main() {
 				if ucache != nil {
 					ucap := ucache.GetCapacity()
 					if ucache.Length() <= ucap || common.Users.GlobalCount() <= ucap {
+						countNotDealloc = false
 						continue
 					}
-					//ucache.DeallocOverflow()
+					lastEvictedCount = ucache.DeallocOverflow(countNotDealloc)
+					countNotDealloc = (lastEvictedCount == 0)
+				} else {
+					countNotDealloc = false
 				}
 			}
 		}
-	}()
+	}()*/
 
 	log.Print("Initialising the router")
 	router, err = NewGenRouter(http.FileServer(http.Dir("./uploads")))

public/global.js

@@ -121,13 +121,11 @@ function loadAlerts(menuAlerts) {
 			updateAlertList(menuAlerts)
 		},
 		error: (magic,theStatus,error) => {
-			let errtxt
+			let errtxt = "Unable to get the alerts";
 			try {
 				var data = JSON.parse(magic.responseText);
 				if("errmsg" in data) errtxt = data.errmsg;
-				else errtxt = "Unable to get the alerts";
 			} catch(err) {
-				errtxt = "Unable to get the alerts";
 				console.log(magic.responseText);
 				console.log(err);
 			}