Well, I did these really to only confirm that the Subscribe dialog is
performing up to par after your last checkin.
I'll talk with Esther and see if she would like me to get in on the lab and
do some testing with our Earthlink connection on the Gateway box. I think
it's nbaca's setup.
Also, my mac and linux boxxen will be delivered tomorrow, so later on, maybe
I'll test those machines. Apart from updating feature tests, and general
bug triaging, and keeping myself good with the specs on gooey, my
performance work is on an on-demand basic (at least Purify/Quantify). But
again, I'll talk to Esther.
I meant trunk builds from commercial (sweetlou). The first time I tested
and gave you results, it was the mozilla trunk, so the numbers are the exact
same.
"Seth Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Stephen,
>
> Thanks for doing these timings.
>
> > Hardware: Dell Precision 220, 128 megs of RAM, Pentium III at 733 mhz.
> > Network connection to test server (news.netscape.com) 345k/second.
>
> For external people, news.netscape.com has about 38,000 newsgroups.
>
> It would also be interesting to see how we perform on the target
> machine. The target machine has much less RAM and a slower CPU. (I
> can't remember off the top of my head how much RAM and how fast of a
> CPU, but I can find out.) I suspect that on a machine with less RAM, OE
> and NS 4.76 out perform Mozilla trunk build. Mozilla uses a lot of
> memory, and as soon as you start swapping to disk, performance will go
> down.
>
> Getting some numbers for doing "refresh" over a modem would be
> interesting, too. Over the modem, time spend downloading the list of
> 38,000 newsgroups will become a bigger factor.
>
> > Outlook Express populated the list in 7 seconds.
> > Netscape 6 populated the list in 5 seconds.
> > Netscape 4.76 took 8 seconds.
>
> Excellent! You mean "Mozilla Trunk" took 5 seconds, right? What we
> shipped as Netscape 6 would have performed *very* poorly. Mozilla Trunk
> vs. Netscape 6 would be an interesting measurement, too. I made all the
> improvements to the subscribe dialog after we shipped.
>
> Stephen, don't feel obligated to do more timings. (vs NS 6, on the
> target machine, over a modem, etc.) I know you have other things to
> work on. Subscribe performance is not a high priority issue.
>
> -Seth
>
>
