Performance/Status Meetings/2007-December-05

Agenda

AI: justin
- bug 400045
- going to watch numbers next week and pav to look for checkin that fixed it
- alice to look for "high number reporting" issue
- wait for mini's to try to rule out hardware/software
- pav/vlad to look at graph off mini's
- justin to follow up with him on if things are good
AI: justin
- ~~justin to stock up on minis - ordering 50, only for perf~~
- IT to build and image, and if possible, get on tree
- Ref machines done except XP - waiting on lang pack. Images will be done this week, XP ref machine should be done too
- Got a fix for ubuntu reboot issue.
AI: Alice
- get in each OS ready to be imaged for new minis - Done except XP
- ~~no mac, vista or leopard - alice to create a mac image~~
- ~~justin to bring up 2 machines, mac image coming next week, vista image a few weeks out~~
- got pushed out for trunk
- ~~alice needs standard mac mini with vista, leopard, tiger~~
AI: Vlad
- try to find out why mac & linux is so slow
- bug 404399
- double check linux

Moz2 mini farm implementation
- Rolling out this week based on spreadsheet
bhearsum is going to be working primarily in Build for the next 1-2 months.
- Will still be supporting the existing Talos machines
- Working on Try server Talos, Vista slaves, baselines is on the back burner for now.
Discussion over Talos/Tbox stability
- Much more stable - planned to add the tests to the production tree in 1 month (11/3)
- ~~blocked on bug 393338~~
- ~~xml parsing bug re: svg - leaving this test off as it's unstable~~ - Test is on and running!
- mac & linux having issues, very slow cycle time, linux bug bug 210931
- pushed out due to above issues, should have some machines on the tree this week.
Talos on the try server bug 398192
- The Buildbot side is moving quickly, I've already run a couple of test slaves.
- Managing/interpreting the data will take longer to figure out.
- robcee has machines and passwords, pushed off for production perf stuff
js test integration into talos
- crashing the browser
- alice's item

Smaug has initial patch for content objects.
Can layout put more objects into arenas?
Stuart has done more allocator testing. Has good candidate that looks much better than the standard windows one.

AI:sicking Look into enabling trace-refcount, without the tracing part in nightlies.
AI:cbarrett Look into OS leaks on Mac.
AI:dbaron Make assertions fatal on new windows leak box.
AI:sicking Test leaked handles on windows manually using purify.
AI:sayrer Run leak buster while looking for trace-malloc leaks.
AI:sicking to go through and prioritize leak bugs

Txul platform differences according to mac mini machines
- mac: slowest on 1.8, slower still on 1.9 (30% regression)
- windows: fastest on 1.8, now in second place (30% regression)
- linux: middle on 1.8, now fastest on 1.9 (30% improvement)

massive Ts regression in 2006
- need to profile builds on either side of the regression to figure out where the time went

Firefox front-end perf
- sayer to put list of tasks on wiki
  - focus on measurements on tabbrowser reduction
  - Performance:FrontEnd
- dolske will do some profiling work