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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-08-03T19·10+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-08-03T19·21+0200
commit2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836baf0b9b05da993c6 (patch)
treedbdfb391c835dc4baebee804653bbf7e399b6b27 /src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
parent34c17fdae535d0128d178dde676f56f1bc8439e3 (diff)
Make adding paths via nix-store --serve run in constant memory
It adds a new operation, cmdAddToStoreNar, that does the same thing as
the corresponding nix-daemon operation, i.e. call addToStore(). This
replaces cmdImportPaths, which has the major issue that it sends the
NAR first and the store path second, thus requiring us to store the
incoming NAR either in memory or on disk until we decide what to do
with it.

For example, this reduces the memory usage of

  $ nix copy --to 'ssh://localhost?remote-store=/tmp/nix' /nix/store/95cwv4q54dc6giaqv6q6p4r02ia2km35-blender-2.79

from 267 MiB to 12 MiB.

Probably fixes #1988.
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diff --git a/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc b/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
index a2e54b93c05f..644fa6681de3 100644
--- a/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
+++ b/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ static void performOp(TunnelLogger * logger, ref<Store> store,
 
         logger->startWork();
 
+        // FIXME: race if addToStore doesn't read source?
         store.cast<Store>()->addToStore(info, *source, (RepairFlag) repair,
             dontCheckSigs ? NoCheckSigs : CheckSigs, nullptr);