http://alice.nodelman.net/blog infrequent updates and long delays Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:05:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Collection of Talos mobile performance graph links now available. This is pretty much all due to the efforts of Aki. He's taken Talos on mobile from a mere twinkle in Fennec's eye to an actual system with multiple machines reporting consistent results with low variance. Aki is ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/talos-on-mobile-performance-results-now-available/ Bug 463020 - Talos machines should be automatically rebooted periodically has finally been fully implemented and resolved fixed.  Here's what we know about Talos machines: The longer the uptime the less trustworthy the numbers Machines can stay up and report untrustworthy/garbage numbers for a long time before anyone notices - as long ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/auto-rebooting-talos-boxen-saves-the-world/ After the recent work done to bring up the new Firefox3.1 branch I did a count of active Talos boxes. As far as I can figure it breaks down like this: 7 testing 1.8 25 testing 1.9 23 testing 1.9.1 23 testing 1.9.2 9 testing Tracemonkey 3 testing try server builds That would give a grand ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/lucky-number-90/ This really shouldn't be super secret, but it has come to my attention that some people don't know about the compendium of Talos graph links. It's really hard to construct graphs on the graph server that are a) meaningful and b) correct - you have to know which talos machines are ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/the-super-secret-list-of-graph-links/ This downtime will affect all build machines reporting to mozilla-central (Firefox waterfall). The following fix will be applied: Bug 433710 - moz2/3.next leak test + codesighs need to report results to graphs.m.o. The applied patch will affect all leak/bloat/codesighs values reported to the graph server as we will be aligning on bytes as ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/firefox-build-machine-downtime-tuesday-october-28th-9am-11am-pst/ Fixes in this downtime include: Bug 443979 - talos collects memory information on mac in KB, on linux/win in Bytes.  Talos collects various memory metrics (RSS, Private Bytes, Memory Set Size) to get a feel for how much space the browser is taking up.  I realized a little while back that ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/details-warnings-talos-downtime-friday-october-24th-9am-1pm-pst/ Here's the short story.  There was what appeared to be a performance regression across all machines on 9/26.  While the usual culprit would be a change to the browser, the regression coincided with several changes made to the Talos system (both to test configuration and physical machine configuration).  Investigating the ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/how-i-caused-the-talos-regression-on-926-and-87/ Last quarter we optimistically added Bug 447696 (make talos machines rebootable) to the Release Engineering goals list.  We wanted to solve this consistently repeated order of events: Talos box starts behaving oddly (low/high numbers, stopped reporting all together, etc), developer notices and files bug IT looks at bug, Talos documentation is incredibly ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/rebootable-talos-machines-and-why-thats-a-good-thing/ I recently updated Standalone Talos to version 1.3.1.  This version includes updates to Talos and Pageloader code along with some simple fixes: Upon starting, Standalone Talos now warns the user that all open browser windows must be closed before testing can begin and then exits.  This was in response to the ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/standalone-talos-v131/