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[IMP] snippets: move all work from parent to mp workers
In `convert_html_columns()`, we select 100MiB worth of DB tuples and pass them to a ProcessPoolExecutor together with a converter callable. So far, the converter returns all tuples, changed or unchanged together with the information if it has changed something. All this is returned through IPC to the parent process. In the parent process, the caller only acts on the changed tuples, though, the rest is ignored. In any scenario I've seen, only a small proportion of the input tuples is actually changed, meaning that a large proportion is returned through IPC unnecessarily. What makes it worse is that processing of the converted results in the parent process is often slower than the conversion, leading to two effects: 1) The results of all workers sit in the parent process's memory, possibly leading to MemoryError (upg-2021031) 2) The parallel processing is being serialized on the feedback, defeating a large part of the intended performance gains To improve this, this commit - moves all work into the workers, meaning not just the conversion filter, but also the DB query as well as the DB updates. - by doing so reduces the amount of data passed by IPC to just the query texts - by doing so distributes the data held in memory to all worker processes - reduces the chunk size by one order of magnitude, which means - a lot less memory used at a time - a lot better distribution of "to-be-changed" rows when these rows are clustered in the table All in all, in my test case, this - reduces maximum process size in memory to 300MiB for all processes compared to formerly >2GiB (and MemoryError) in the parent process - reduces runtime from 17 minutes to less than 2 minutes
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