Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, For almost three months now, we've had graphs following the amount of memory used by the linker on Windows builders during PGO builds. The result can be seen here: http://graphs.mozilla.org/graph.html#tests=[[205,63,8]]sel=nonedisplayrange=90datatype=running The first thing to notice in

Re: Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:28:47AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: I think we need to start thinking how to make PGO opt-in instead of opt-out, while keeping performance where it is now. In fact, I'm wondering if at this point it wouldn't just make sense to start the other way around, that is, to

Rendering meeting, Monday April 22 (not this Monday!) at 2:30 PM US/Pacific

2013-04-13 Thread Benoit Jacob
Hello, The next Rendering meeting will take place *not* this Monday, but on Monday April 22 at 2:30 PM US/Pacific time. That could be Tuesday in your timezone. The Rendering meeting is about all things Gfx, Image, Layout, and Media. It is expected to take place every second Monday. This week is

Re: Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-13 Thread Asa Dotzler
On 4/13/2013 1:59 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:28:47AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: I think we need to start thinking how to make PGO opt-in instead of opt-out, while keeping performance where it is now. I have a really basic question. Is PGO's performance gains something

Re: Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion

2013-04-13 Thread Kyle Huey
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Asa Dotzler a...@mozilla.com wrote: I have a really basic question. Is PGO's performance gains something users are actually going to notice or are we mostly talking about synthetic benchmark pissing contests here? As we saw when we accidentally disabled it