The goal is to be able to build a database handler (dbh) and to execute
queries without loading unnecessary stuff. This will be useful to reduce
memory usage of daemons that need to check the database
periodically
The patch provides a new method Koha::Database::dbh which returns a
database handler without loading the DBIx::Class schema. This method is
also used by DBIx::Class, so whether you use DBI or DBIx::Class, the
same method is used to initialize the connection.
The patch also moves some code in order to avoid loading C4::Context:
- C4::Context::timezone moves to Koha::Config
- C4::Context::db_scheme2dbi moves to Koha::Database
To measure memory usage I used the following commands:
* before the patch:
perl -MKoha::Database \
-E 'Koha::Database->schema->storage->dbh->do("select 1");' \
-E '$|=1; say $$; sleep 2' \
| while read pid; do ps -p $pid -o rss=; done
* after the patch:
perl -MKoha::Database \
-E 'Koha::Database->dbh->do("select 1");' \
-E '$|=1; say $$; sleep 2' \
| while read pid; do ps -p $pid -o rss=; done
It will give you the RSS (Resident Set Size) of the perl process in kB
What I get:
* before the patch: between 96.9MB and 97.2MB
* after the patch: between 17.8MB and 18.2MB
Note that if a timezone is configured (either from $KOHA_CONF or
TZ environment variable), Koha will load DateTime::Timezone to check if
it's valid, and it increases RSS to 36MB
Another interesting metric is the number of modules loaded:
* before the patch:
perl -MKoha::Database \
-E 'Koha::Database->schema->storage->dbh;' \
-E 'say scalar keys %INC'
Result: 567
* after the patch:
perl -MKoha::Database \
-E 'Koha::Database->dbh;' \
-E 'say scalar keys %INC'
Result: 51
Test plan:
1. Apply the patch & restart starman
2. Make sure Koha is still ok (ie. can access the database, does not
have encoding issues, ...)
3. Run the tests in t/Context.t, t/Koha/Config.t,
t/db_dependent/Koha/Database.t, t/timezones.t
Signed-off-by: Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Clemens <nick@bywatersolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org>
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