Add a toggle for saving the WARC data generated by the search engine's crawler. Normally this is discarded, but for debugging or archival purposes, retaining it may be of interest.
The warc files are concatenated into larger archives, up to about 1 GB each.
An index is also created containing filenames, domain names, offsets and sizes
to help navigate these larger archives.
The warc data is saved in a directory warc/ under the crawl data storage.
This commit overhauls a lot of the UX for the control service, adding a new actions menu to the nodes views. It has many small tweaks to make the work flow better.
It also adds a new /uploads directory in each index node, from which sideloaded data can be selected. This is a bit of a breaking change, as this directory needs to exist in each index node.
The changeset also makes the control service responsible for flyway migrations. This helps reduce the number of places the database configuration needs to be spread out. These automatic migrations can be disabled with -DdisableFlyway=true.
The commit also adds curl to the docker container, to enable docker health checks and interdependencies.
This adds a docker-compose file 'docker-compose-barebones.yml' which will only start the minimal number of services needed to run a whitelabel Marginalia Search-style search engine, with none of the surrounding frills.
The change also adds a minimal search GUI to the query service, which is also available with JSON results if the appropriate Accept header is provided.
The new converter logic assumes that the crawl data is ordered where the domain record comes first, and then a sequence of document records. This is true for the new parquet format, but not for the old zstd/gson format.
To make the new converter compatible with the old format, a specialized reader is introduced that scans for the domain record before running through the sequence of document records; and presenting them in the new order.
This is slower than just reading the file beginning to end, so in order to retain performance when this ordering isn't necessary, a CompatibilityLevel flag is added to CrawledDomainReader, permitting the caller to decide how compatible the data needs to be.
Down the line when all the old data is purged, this should be removed, as it amounts to technical debt.
The EC_DOMAIN_LINK MariaDB table stores links between domains. This is problematic, as both updating and querying this table is very slow in relation to how small the data is (~10 GB). This slowness is largely caused by the database enforcing ACID guarantees we don't particularly need.
This changeset replaces the EC_DOMAIN_LINK table with a file in each index node containing 32 bit integer pairs corresponding to links between two domains. This file is loaded in memory in each node, and can be queried via the Query Service.
A migration step is needed before this file is created in each node. Until that happens, the actual data is loaded from the EC_DOMAIN_LINK table, but accessed as though it was a file.
The changeset also migrates/renames the links.db file to documents.db to avoid naming confusion between the two.
There was as bug where if the input of ResultValuator.normalize() was negative, it was truncated to zero. This meant that "bad" results always rank the same. The penalty factor "overallPart" was moved outside of the function and was re-weighted to accomplish a better normalization.
Some of the weights were also re-adjusted based on what appears to produce better results. Needs evaluation.
There was as bug where if the input of ResultValuator.normalize() was negative, it was truncated to zero. This meant that "bad" results always rank the same. The penalty factor "overallPart" was moved outside of the function and was re-weighted to accomplish a better normalization.
Some of the weights were also re-adjusted based on what appears to produce better results. Needs evaluation.
This is for filtering results on how many times the term appears on the domain. The intent is to be beneficial in creating e.g. a domain search feature. It's also very helpful when tracking down spammy domains.
Added functionality to remove processes from listing that have not checked in for over a day. A 'removeProcessHeartbeat' function was created to delete the respective entry from the PROCESS_HEARTBEAT table in case heartbeats are absent for more than one day.
We do both ip2location and ASN data.
The change also adds some keywords based on autonomous system information, on a somewhat experimental basis. It would be neat to be able to e.g. exclude cloud services or just e.g. cloudflare from the search results.
This variable had a very confusing name, and was dangerously easy to use in the wrong place with the result of getting something that only works as expected half the time.
Ideally this class needs an overhaul, the assumptions it makes about domain names aren't great.
This is caused by a resource contention with the query code. The proper way to fix this is to use some form of synchronization, but that will slow the code down. So we just hammer it a few times and let the GC deal with the problem if it fails. Not optimal, but fast.
This commit is in a pretty rough state. It refactors the crawler fairly significantly to offer better separation of concerns. It replaces the zstd compressed json files used to store crawl data with WARC files entirely, and the converter is modified to be able to consume this data. This works, -ish.
There appears to be some bug relating to reading robots.txt, and the X-Robots-Tag header is no longer processed either.
A problem is that the WARC files are a bit too large. It will probably be likely to introduce a new format to store the crawl data long term, something like parquet; and use WARCs for intermediate storage to enable the crawler to be restarted without needing a recrawl.
In this commit, GeoIP-related classes are refactored and relocated to a common library as they are shared across multiple services.
The crawler is refactored to enable the GeoIpBlocklist to use the new GeoIpDictionary as the base of its decisions.
The converter is modified ot query this data to add a geoip:-keyword to documents to permit limiting a search to the country of the hosting server.
The commit also adds due BY-SA attribution in the search engine footer for the source of the IP geolocation data.
This commit also fixes a bug in the loader where the IP field wouldn't always populate as intended, and refactors the DomainInformationService to use significantly fewer SQL queries.
This reduces the impact of restarting the search service, as the site information takes a few minutes to load during which it's not available. It also permits exposing this information via API in the future if there is interest in this.
The assistant service was also modified to do a late load of the suggestions trie, as this is a major contributor to its start-up time.
Finally, some changes were made to the client library, a new get() method was added that takes a TypeToken to allow deserialization of generics such as List<Foo>, and the scheduler was also modified to use virtual threads.
A race condition was found where precession actors would sometimes skip a step, because when invoking ExecutorRemoteActor.getState(), it would get the last 'OK' actor state from a previous run of the actor!
To avoid this, the trigger method was changed from returning a boolean to the message ID, negative if an error occurred, to be passed to getState to select only messages that pertain to the present or future runs.
This update includes the integration of the jwarc library and implements support for Warc file sideloading, as a first trial integration with this library.
If a process is violently terminated, the associated file storage may get stuck in the ephemeral 'NEW' state, preventing future operations on the associated data.
To remedy this without having to dig through the database, a button was added to reset the state. It's a band-aid, but the situation is rare enough that I think it's fine.
The repartition endpoint was mis-addressing its mqapi notifications, omitting the proper nodeId. In fixing this, it became apparent that having both @MqRequest and @MqNotification is a serious footgun, and the two should be unified into a single API where the caller isn't burdened with knowledge of the remote end's implementation specifics.
* Added new (optional) model file in $WMSA_HOME/data/atags.parquet
* Converter gets a component for creating a projection of its domains onto the full atags parquet file
* New WordFlag ExternalLink
* These terms are also for now flagged as title words
* Fixed a bug where Title words aliased with UrlDomain words
* Fixed a bug in the encyclopedia sideloader that gave everything too high topology ranking
This was caused by a bug in the binary search algorithm causing it to sometimes return positive values when encoding a search miss.
It was also necessary to get rid of the vestiges of the old LongArray and IntArray classes to make this fix doable.
* Encyclopedia sideloader; permit providing base URL.
* Storage base shows node id in GUI
* ProcessLivenessMonitorActor restarts automatically
* Clean-up of outbox code
This turned out to be very difficult to do in small isolated steps.
* Design overhaul of the control gui using bootstrap
* Move the actors out of control-service into to a new executor-service, that can be run on multiple nodes
* Add node-affinity to message queue
This makes index complete in the sense that you can deploy an index instance and build a complete separate application on top of it, without having to go through the Marginalia-laden search service.
* (index-reverse) Parallel construction of the reverse indexes.
* (array) Remove wasteful calculation of numDistinct before merging two sorted arrays.
* (index-reverse) Force changes to disk on close, reduce logging.
* (index-reverse) Clean up merging process and add back logging
* (run) Add a conservative default for INDEX_CONSTRUCTION_PROCESS_OPTS's parallelism as it eats a lot of RAM
* (index-reverse) Better logging during processing
* (array) 2GB+ compatible write() function
* (array) 2GB+ compatible write() function
* (index-reverse) We are logging like Bolsonaro and I will not have it.
* (reverse-index) Self-diagnostics
* (btree) Fix bug in btree reader to do with large data sizes
... also move some common configuration into the root build.gradle-file.
Support for JDK21 in lombok is a bit sketchy at the moment, but it seems to work. This upgrade is kind of important as the new index construction really benefits from Arena based lifecycle control over off-heap memory.
* Reduce memory churn in LoaderIndexJournalWriter, fix bug with keyword mappings as well
* Remove remains of OldDomains
* Ensure LOADER_PROCESS_OPTS gets fed to the processes
* LinkdbStatusWriter won't execute batch after each added item post 100 items
This is a system-wide change. The index used to have a lexicon, mapping words to wordIds using a large in-memory hash table. This made index-construction easier, but it
also added a fairly significant RAM penalty to both the index service and the loader.
The new design moves to 64 bit word identifiers calculated using the murmur hash of the keyword, and an index construction based on merging smaller indices.
It also became necessary half-way through to upgrade guice as its error reporting wasn't *quite* compatible with JDK20.
This provides a much cleaner separation of concerns, and makes it possible to get rid of a lot of the gunkier parts of the index service. It will also permit lowering the Xmx on the index service a fair bit, so we can get CompressedOOps again :D
This is a QOL improvement for mobile users, who otherwise would have to scroll all the way up to refresh.
Also removed the confusing "this is a random set of domains"-message when viewing adjacent websites, as it's not random.
