### Describe Your Changes
fsync() ensures that the data is written to disk. In production this is
needed for data durability. However, during the development, when the
unit tests are run, this level of durability is not needed. Therefore
fsync() can be disabled which will makes test runs two times faster.
The disabling is done by setting the `DISABLE_FSYNC_FOR_TESTING`
environment variable. The valid values for this variable are the same as
the values of the arg of `go doc strconv.ParseBool`:
```
1, t, T, TRUE, true, True, 0, f, F, FALSE, false, False.
```
Any other value means `false`.
The variable is set for all test build targets. Compare running times:
Build Target | DISABLE_FSYNC_FOR_TESTING=0 | DISABLE_FSYNC_FOR_TESTING=1
----------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
-------------------------------------------------
make test | 1m5s | 0m22s
make test-race | 3m1s | 1m42s
make test-pure | 1m7s | 0m20s
make test-full | 1m21s | 0m32s
make test-full-386 | 1m42s | 0m36s
When running tests for a given package, fsync can be disabled as
follows:
```shell
DISABLE_FSYNC_FOR_TESTING=1 go test ./lib/storage
```
Disabling fsync() is intended for testing purposes only and the name of
the variables reflects that.
What could also have been done but haven't:
- lib/filestream/filestream.go: `Writer.MustFlush()` also uses f.Sync()
but nothing has been done to it, because the Writer.MustFlush() is not
used anywhere in the VM codebase. A side question: what is the general
policy for the unused code?
- lib/filestream/filestream.go: Writer.Write() calls `adviceDontNeed()`
which calls unix.Fdatasync(). Disabling it could potentially improve
running time, but running tests with this code disabled has shown
otherwise.
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [ x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
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Signed-off-by: Artem Fetishev <wwctrsrx@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 334cd92a6c)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Measuring read / write duration from / to in-memory buffers has little sense,
since it will be always fast. It is better to measure read / write duration from / to
real files at vm_filestream_write_duration_seconds_total and vm_filestream_read_duration_seconds_total metrics.
This also reduces overhead on time.Now() and Histogram.UpdateDuration() calls
per each filestream.Reader.Read() and filestream.Writer.Write() call when the data is read / written from / to in-memory buffers.
This is a follow-up for 2f63dec2e3
Callers of this function log the returned error and exit.
It is better logging the error together with the path to the filename
and call stack directly inside the function. This simplifies
the code at callers' side without reducing the level of debuggability
Callers of this function log the returned error and exit.
Let's log the error with the path to the filename and call stack
inside the function. This simplifies the code at callers' side
without reducing the level of debuggability.
