Performance/Status Meetings/2007-September-12

Participants

AI:justin still open stats change to track AUS usage by osversion. bug 382044.
AI:vlad/alice still open proxy-server work bug 389703 (ready for integration with Talos). rob arnold back at school. vlad/alice to land patch and possible integrate with Talos.
- stuart's been using this and works well. Probably won't need to change our pageset for 1.9, this is for future use.
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:bhearsum file a ticket to reimage mac minis to 10.4.8

Discussion over Talos/Tbox stability
Talos status update? http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/MozillaTest/
- Mac Port status?
- New Vlad Tp test status?
  - Plan: we will do a) new machines; b) new pageloader; c) old (300-page alexa) pageset
- Page-load-server migration. See bug 373848 for details.
bhearsum's priority list
- 1. Get Win32 Talos slaves up to compare old vs. new pageloader
  2. Linux/Mac trunk/branch Talos baselining
  3. Linux/Mac on-checkin slaves
  4. Finish up next try server version (includes HG support)

probe status
- jst: memory leak tracking
- sayrer: js/chrome performance
- more? need to make wiki page collecting this stuff - Performance:Probes is a start

Working Set / Private Bytes spike after JS fast native landing: bug 390847 bug 395828. Need to try Talos runs without memoized single-character strings.

Startup Ts drag happens mostly in XUL. Measured startup component time in nsAppRunner.