On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Chris AtLee <cat...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Right now we've got debug OSX builds in the cloud on Try in parallel with >> the regular builds. There's a bunch more work to be done there to be able >> to switch over, but we're definitely making progress. >> >> All Windows / OSX unit tests are currently done on our own infra. Q >> Fortier >> is working on getting Windows unittests stood up in AWS, and the results >> are very promising. I'm not sure when we'll be able to switch over yet >> though. There are no obvious solutions for OSX test infrastructure other >> than maintaining our own racks of minis. >> >> Perf tests on all platforms will stay on hardware for now. Some people >> have >> done experiments on EC2 to see how talos performs, but I don't think we >> know enough about the impact of this to decide if we can move these off >> bare metal or not. >> > > Amazon now supports dedicated instances, which means you fully control > what runs on the machine and other random tenants aren't fighting you for > CPU and I/O. Assuming the performance variance from other tenants is what > was preventing us from moving Talos to AWS, that blocker may no longer > exist. > I think you probably want Dedicated Hosts rather than dedicated instances, otherwise multiple of your own workloads could end up on the same physical box I think. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/ I have two main concerns with dedicated infra on AWS: * You're still running under a hypervisor of some kind; will it introduce too much noise into the results? Seems like a worthwhile experiment! * Dedicated host pricing is quite a bit more expensive than what we're paying now for test infrastructure. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
