Performance/Status Meetings/2007-October-03

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Participants

• Ben H, John, Vlad, Alice, Robcee, Clint, Ben, Pav, Sayer, Colin, Coop, Damon

Agenda

Action Items

• AI:alice complete Stand Alone talos doc
  • includes landing proxy server patch somewhere bug 389703
• AI:schrep talk to linux vendors about native theme painting performance
  • Coop changed talos to accommodate, so now doing performance test runs again.
  • Build group still working on renaming the win ref platform machines back. bug 387167
• AI: joduinn Some machines still running on old linux ref platform <strike>bug 396805 , bug 396990 done, bug 389426 being rolled out now. Stuart was ok'd to land 1.9a9 blocker bug on Thurs (27th sept).
• AI: vlad Investigate pageloader component numbers on 1.8 -- bug 396628
• AI:justin Make images of clean talos slave; easier future setup.
• AI:justin Write up goals, need to decided on remaining perf goal.

Infrastructure

• Discussion over Talos/Tbox stability
  • Much more stable - planned to add the tests to the production tree in 1 month (11/3)
• Talos status update? http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/MozillaTest/
  • Tdhtml/Tgfx/Tsvg for Talos landed (Txul will land very soon, too)
    • What slaves do we want these tests running?
  • Mac Port status
    • Mac slaves are up and running bug 393073
    • Plan on adding them with the rest of the platforms within the month.
  • Page-load-server component question - see vlad's AI.
• Talos for Mozilla2
  • Ben to create a mini for imaging, IT will image and get Ben talos server. Robcee/alice to help with the integration to master.
• Goals for q4
  • Agreed goals:
    • stable production talos for branch trunk (4 platforms) on tree
    • perf enabled try server
    • stand alone talos box
    • baselines for historical numbers
  • Possible goal additions:
    • talos for other browsers
    • graph server improvements (perhaps seneca)
    • talos dashboard for sheriffs
    • talos for addons

Gecko: Perf discussion

• dtrace status
  • luser to review main patch for Solaris
  • small fix to latest version of main patch needed for Leopard, dtrace -G alternative still under study

• Followups
  • Larry perf -- onSecurityChange is slow, working to improve that (sayer)
  • linux text rendering Ts regression (stuart)

• On radar
  • sessionStore is really slow, needs to be fixed (sayer -- might have a fix, might need an owner -- more next week)
  • Jonas' comments regarding cycle collection and talos, esp. with destroy patch
  • Theme optimization (unowned)
  • roc's scrollbar issues
  • startup performance (fastload perf, loading libXUL and other files, etc.) (unowned)
  • others?

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