Re: Todo list for the new talos machines

On Oct 25, 11:41 am, Stuart Parmenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> vlad, rob, bhearsum and myself sat down this morning at FSOSS and went
> over what we needed to move forward with the new talos setup.
>
> For each platform, I have suggested that we have 3 identical machines
> running at half speed (speedsteped down) with more cycles than we are
> currently using.  3 machines so that if one is acting up we can tell
> that the other two aren't.
>
> Machines that we need:
> Priority | OS
> ---------+-------------------------
> #1       | XP
> #1       | Mac OSX 10.4
> #1       | Linux (Ubuntu)
> #2       | Mac OSX 10.5 (final)
> #3       | Vista (super duper edition?)
>
> We would also like to have 1 non-chrome machine for each platform so
> that we can more easily identify chrome-only regressions.
>
> (This is a total of 18 machines)
>
> Todo:
> - Speedstep on mac
> - Speedstep on linux
> - talos GC patch (sicking)
> - increase cycles (15 or 20 -- whatever the magic number for lowest
> noise is)
> - image machines so that we can quickly deploy new ones

I should also note, that this is the set of machines we want to be
running in total not in addition to anything.

We also will want one branch box for each platform that we can
baseline against (configured the same as the trunk ones (i.e. half
speed, more cycles, etc).

stuart