VCS Server Management
The VCS Server handles |RCE| backend functionality. You need to configure a VCS Server to run with a |RCE| instance. If you do not, you will be missing the connection between |RCE| and its |repos|. This will cause error messages on the web interface. You can run your setup in the following configurations, currently the best performance is one of following:
- One VCS Server per |RCE| instance.
- One VCS Server handling multiple instances.
Important
If your server locale settings are not correctly configured, |RCE| and the VCS Server can run into issues. See this Ask Ubuntu post which explains the problem and gives a solution.
For more information, see the following sections:
- :ref:`install-vcs`
- :ref:`config-vcs`
- :ref:`vcs-server-options`
- :ref:`vcs-server-versions`
- :ref:`vcs-server-maintain`
- :ref:`vcs-server-config-file`
- :ref:`svn-http`
VCS Server Installation
To install a VCS Server, see :ref:`Installing a VCS server <control:install-vcsserver>`.
Hooking |RCE| to its VCS Server
To configure a |RCE| instance to use a VCS server, see :ref:`Configuring the VCS Server connection <control:manually-vcsserver-ini>`.
|RCE| VCS Server Options
The following list shows the available options on the |RCE| side of the connection to the VCS Server. The settings are configured per instance in the :file:`config/_shared/rhodecode.ini` file.
################## ### VCS CONFIG ### ################## # set this line to match your VCS Server vcs.server = 127.0.0.1:10004 # Set to False to disable the VCS Server vcs.server.enable = True vcs.backends = hg, git, svn vcs.connection_timeout = 3600
VCS Server Versions
An updated version of the VCS Server is released with each |RCE| version. Use the VCS Server number that matches with the |RCE| version to pair the appropriate ones together. For |RCE| versions pre 3.3.0, VCS Server 1.X.Y works with |RCE| 3.X.Y, for example:
- VCS Server 1.0.0 works with |RCE| 3.0.0
- VCS Server 1.2.2 works with |RCE| 3.2.2
For |RCE| versions post 3.3.0, the VCS Server and |RCE| version numbers match, for example:
- VCS Server |release| works with |RCE| |release|
VCS Server Cache Optimization
To optimize the VCS server to manage the cache and memory usage efficiently, it's recommended to configure the Redis backend for VCSServer caches. Once configured, restart the VCS Server.
Make sure Redis is installed and running. Open :file:`/home/{user}/.rccontrol/{vcsserver-id}/vcsserver.ini` file and ensure the below settings for repo_object type cache are set:
; ensure the default file based cache is *commented out* ##rc_cache.repo_object.backend = dogpile.cache.rc.file_namespace ##rc_cache.repo_object.expiration_time = 2592000 ; `repo_object` cache settings for vcs methods for repositories rc_cache.repo_object.backend = dogpile.cache.rc.redis_msgpack ; cache auto-expires after N seconds ; Examples: 86400 (1Day), 604800 (7Days), 1209600 (14Days), 2592000 (30days), 7776000 (90Days) rc_cache.repo_object.expiration_time = 2592000 ; redis_expiration_time needs to be greater then expiration_time rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.redis_expiration_time = 3592000 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.host = localhost rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.port = 6379 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.db = 5 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.socket_timeout = 30 ; more Redis options: https://dogpilecache.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/api.html#redis-backends rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.distributed_lock = true
To clear the cache completely, you can restart the VCS Server.
Important
While the VCS Server handles a restart gracefully on the web interface, it will drop connections during push/pull requests. So it is recommended you only perform this when there is very little traffic on the instance.
Use the following example to restart your VCS Server, for full details see the :ref:`RhodeCode Control CLI <control:rcc-cli>`.
$ rccontrol status
- NAME: vcsserver-1 - STATUS: RUNNING logs:/home/ubuntu/.rccontrol/vcsserver-1/vcsserver.log - VERSION: 4.7.2 VCSServer - URL: http://127.0.0.1:10008 - CONFIG: /home/ubuntu/.rccontrol/vcsserver-1/vcsserver.ini $ rccontrol restart vcsserver-1 Instance "vcsserver-1" successfully stopped. Instance "vcsserver-1" successfully started.
VCS Server Configuration
You can configure settings for multiple VCS Servers on your system using their individual configuration files. Use the following properties inside the configuration file to set up your system. The default location is :file:`home/{user}/.rccontrol/{vcsserver-id}/vcsserver.ini`. For a more detailed explanation of the logger levers, see :ref:`debug-mode`.
Note
After making changes, you need to restart your VCS Server to pick them up.
; ################################# ; RHODECODE VCSSERVER CONFIGURATION ; ################################# [server:main] ; COMMON HOST/IP CONFIG host = 127.0.0.1 port = 10002 ; ########################### ; GUNICORN APPLICATION SERVER ; ########################### ; run with gunicorn --log-config rhodecode.ini --paste rhodecode.ini ; Module to use, this setting shouldn't be changed use = egg:gunicorn#main ; Sets the number of process workers. More workers means more concurrent connections ; RhodeCode can handle at the same time. Each additional worker also it increases ; memory usage as each has it's own set of caches. ; Recommended value is (2 * NUMBER_OF_CPUS + 1), eg 2CPU = 5 workers, but no more ; than 8-10 unless for really big deployments .e.g 700-1000 users. ; `instance_id = *` must be set in the [app:main] section below (which is the default) ; when using more than 1 worker. workers = 6 ; Gunicorn access log level loglevel = info ; Process name visible in process list proc_name = rhodecode_vcsserver ; Type of worker class, one of sync, gevent ; currently `sync` is the only option allowed. worker_class = sync ; The maximum number of simultaneous clients. Valid only for gevent worker_connections = 10 ; Max number of requests that worker will handle before being gracefully restarted. ; Prevents memory leaks, jitter adds variability so not all workers are restarted at once. max_requests = 1000 max_requests_jitter = 30 ; Amount of time a worker can spend with handling a request before it ; gets killed and restarted. By default set to 21600 (6hrs) ; Examples: 1800 (30min), 3600 (1hr), 7200 (2hr), 43200 (12h) timeout = 21600 ; The maximum size of HTTP request line in bytes. ; 0 for unlimited limit_request_line = 0 ; Limit the number of HTTP headers fields in a request. ; By default this value is 100 and can't be larger than 32768. limit_request_fields = 32768 ; Limit the allowed size of an HTTP request header field. ; Value is a positive number or 0. ; Setting it to 0 will allow unlimited header field sizes. limit_request_field_size = 0 ; Timeout for graceful workers restart. ; After receiving a restart signal, workers have this much time to finish ; serving requests. Workers still alive after the timeout (starting from the ; receipt of the restart signal) are force killed. ; Examples: 1800 (30min), 3600 (1hr), 7200 (2hr), 43200 (12h) graceful_timeout = 3600 # The number of seconds to wait for requests on a Keep-Alive connection. # Generally set in the 1-5 seconds range. keepalive = 2 ; Maximum memory usage that each worker can use before it will receive a ; graceful restart signal 0 = memory monitoring is disabled ; Examples: 268435456 (256MB), 536870912 (512MB) ; 1073741824 (1GB), 2147483648 (2GB), 4294967296 (4GB) memory_max_usage = 1073741824 ; How often in seconds to check for memory usage for each gunicorn worker memory_usage_check_interval = 60 ; Threshold value for which we don't recycle worker if GarbageCollection ; frees up enough resources. Before each restart we try to run GC on worker ; in case we get enough free memory after that, restart will not happen. memory_usage_recovery_threshold = 0.8 [app:main] use = egg:rhodecode-vcsserver pyramid.default_locale_name = en pyramid.includes = ; default locale used by VCS systems locale = en_US.UTF-8 ; ############# ; DOGPILE CACHE ; ############# ; Default cache dir for caches. Putting this into a ramdisk can boost performance. ; eg. /tmpfs/data_ramdisk, however this directory might require large amount of space cache_dir = %(here)s/data ; ********************************************************** ; `repo_object` cache with redis backend ; recommended for larger instance, or for better performance ; ********************************************************** ; `repo_object` cache settings for vcs methods for repositories rc_cache.repo_object.backend = dogpile.cache.rc.redis_msgpack ; cache auto-expires after N seconds ; Examples: 86400 (1Day), 604800 (7Days), 1209600 (14Days), 2592000 (30days), 7776000 (90Days) rc_cache.repo_object.expiration_time = 2592000 ; redis_expiration_time needs to be greater then expiration_time rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.redis_expiration_time = 3592000 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.host = localhost rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.port = 6379 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.db = 5 rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.socket_timeout = 30 ; more Redis options: https://dogpilecache.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/api.html#redis-backends rc_cache.repo_object.arguments.distributed_lock = true ; ##################### ; LOGGING CONFIGURATION ; ##################### [loggers] keys = root, vcsserver [handlers] keys = console [formatters] keys = generic ; ####### ; LOGGERS ; ####### [logger_root] level = NOTSET handlers = console [logger_vcsserver] level = DEBUG handlers = qualname = vcsserver propagate = 1 ; ######## ; HANDLERS ; ######## [handler_console] class = StreamHandler args = (sys.stderr, ) level = INFO formatter = generic ; ########## ; FORMATTERS ; ########## [formatter_generic] format = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d [%(process)d] %(levelname)-5.5s [%(name)s] %(message)s datefmt = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S