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Jean-Marc Desperrier
Jul 23, 2007, 5:23:39 AM7/23/07
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J. Paul Reed wrote:
> After a couple of weeks going back and forth, I'm happy to report that
> the new Linux reference platform image was deployed last night (not with
> a bang... but with a whimper... which I think is a good thing?)
>
> This refresh of the image was tracked in bug 384035, and upgrades the
> reference image to the spec defined in:
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements
>
> which is basically CentOS 5. The reference image itself is defined more
> specifically in
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/Linux-CentOS-5.0
>
> The one snag to deploying this image earlier was the new builds did not
> run on our performance testing machine, bl-bldlnx01. We built up and
> deployed bl-bldlnx03, which is an instantiation of the reference
> platform, to provide new perf data.
>
> The new data is at:
> http://build-graphs.mozilla.org/graph/query.cgi?testname=pageload&units=ms&tbox=bl-bldlnx03_fxnewref-linux-tbox-HEAD&autoscale=1&days=7&avg=1&showpoint=2007:07:13:11:33:14,265
>
> To provide a baseline + some comparison data, I tested builds from
> fx-linux-tbox (the old linux nightly build machine) on the new
> performance machine; those graphs are here:
> http://build-graphs.mozilla.org/graph/query.cgi?testname=pageload&units=ms&tbox=bl-bldlnx03_fx-linux-tbox-HEAD&autoscale=1&days=7&avg=1&showpoint=2007:07:13:11:33:14,265
>
>
> I'm not currently testing builds from fx-linux-tbox on the new machine
> (to continue to provide a baseline, *but* I can set that up if that
> would be useful for transitioning).
>
> If there are any questions/concerns, please shoot bu...@mozilla.org an
> email, and we'll see what we can do. :-)
> After a couple of weeks going back and forth, I'm happy to report that
> the new Linux reference platform image was deployed last night (not with
> a bang... but with a whimper... which I think is a good thing?)
>
> This refresh of the image was tracked in bug 384035, and upgrades the
> reference image to the spec defined in:
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements
>
> which is basically CentOS 5. The reference image itself is defined more
> specifically in
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/Linux-CentOS-5.0
>
> The one snag to deploying this image earlier was the new builds did not
> run on our performance testing machine, bl-bldlnx01. We built up and
> deployed bl-bldlnx03, which is an instantiation of the reference
> platform, to provide new perf data.
>
> The new data is at:
> http://build-graphs.mozilla.org/graph/query.cgi?testname=pageload&units=ms&tbox=bl-bldlnx03_fxnewref-linux-tbox-HEAD&autoscale=1&days=7&avg=1&showpoint=2007:07:13:11:33:14,265
>
> To provide a baseline + some comparison data, I tested builds from
> fx-linux-tbox (the old linux nightly build machine) on the new
> performance machine; those graphs are here:
> http://build-graphs.mozilla.org/graph/query.cgi?testname=pageload&units=ms&tbox=bl-bldlnx03_fx-linux-tbox-HEAD&autoscale=1&days=7&avg=1&showpoint=2007:07:13:11:33:14,265
>
>
> I'm not currently testing builds from fx-linux-tbox on the new machine
> (to continue to provide a baseline, *but* I can set that up if that
> would be useful for transitioning).
>
> If there are any questions/concerns, please shoot bu...@mozilla.org an
> email, and we'll see what we can do. :-)
Shouldn't this have been posted also to mozilla.dev.platforms.linux ?
With a follow-up to mozilla.dev.platforms.linux ? (like I'm doing just now)
Priit Laes
Jul 24, 2007, 6:34:26 PM7/24/07
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Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2007-07-23 kell 11:23, kirjutas Jean-Marc
Desperrier:
> J. Paul Reed wrote:
> > After a couple of weeks going back and forth, I'm happy to report that
> > the new Linux reference platform image was deployed last night (not with
> > a bang... but with a whimper... which I think is a good thing?)
> >
> > This refresh of the image was tracked in bug 384035, and upgrades the
> > reference image to the spec defined in:
> > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements
> >
This page lists libpng, but at least current xulrunner trunk requires
libpng with APNG (animated PNG) support.
Cheers,
Priit ;)
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