Re: telemetry data retention strategy

2012-10-18 Thread deinspanjer
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:06:38 PM UTC-7, Dave Mandelin wrote: > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:03:38 PM UTC-7, Taras Glek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > According to metrics we have about 1TB of telemetry data in hadoop. This > > > is almost a year worth of telemetry data. Our telemetry

Re: discontinuing (some) automated regression emails

2012-10-18 Thread Karl Tomlinson
Nathan Froyd writes: > - Trace Malloc tests (all of them); it's not clear how useful these > tests are, given the pageload we run them with and the availability > of tools like about:memory. I'd like to receive notifications if these results change. If the results are changing for the small p

Re: New backout policy for Ts regressions on mozilla-inbound

2012-10-18 Thread Justin Lebar
> Do we still have the bug where a test that finishes first, but is from a > later cset (say a later cset IMPROVES Ts by 4% or more) would make us > think we regressed it on an earlier cset if that earlier talos run > finishes later? > > Such that we set graph points by the time the test finished,

Re: New backout policy for Ts regressions on mozilla-inbound

2012-10-18 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As part of our efforts to get more value out of the Talos test suite for > preventing performance regressions, we believe that we are now ready to put > a first set of measures against startup time regressions. We will start by > imposing a new backout poli

discontinuing (some) automated regression emails

2012-10-18 Thread Nathan Froyd
To make automated regression emails more useful, I propose that several of the benchmarks that we run not send regression alerts by default. This proposal is *not* a proposal to discontinue the benchmarks entirely (yet); the numbers they generate will remain available on the graphserver and are the

New backout policy for Ts regressions on mozilla-inbound

2012-10-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Hi everyone, As part of our efforts to get more value out of the Talos test suite for preventing performance regressions, we believe that we are now ready to put a first set of measures against startup time regressions. We will start by imposing a new backout policy for mozilla-inbound checkins f

Re: try syntax for b2g-only

2012-10-18 Thread Ben Hearsum
On 10/17/12 09:42 PM, Steve Fink wrote: > I'll still probably try making a patch to allow |-p b2g|, but it looks > like we may be adding new B2G-relevant platforms, so I'm not sure > exactly what it should do or whether it really makes sense. But |-p > ics_armv7a_gecko| works right now (and has for

Re: Benefits of PGO on Windows

2012-10-18 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On 10/17/2012 9:55 PM, Dave Mandelin wrote: Following the recent discussion about PGO, I really wanted to understand what benefits PGO gives Firefox on Windows, if any--I was skeptical. Rafael (IIRC) posted some Talos numbers, but I didn't know how to interpret them. So I decided to try a few s