usertest notes

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:25 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > I thought I'd put some notes up on usertest...
> >
> > All the logs are at
> > http://benchmark.bazaar-vcs.org/usertest/log/?C=M;O=D
> > This is a long list, perhaps the last 30 days only, with by-month
> > subdirs after that would be useful ?
> 
> I've moved the existing logs, changed the script to put them into
> subdirectories, tweaked the IndexOptions so the names are more
> readable and linked them from the benchmark.bazaar-vcs.org top page.

Thank you!

> > Anyone's branch that is performance related can be tested.

I should note: just mail the list saying you're working on performance
to get this setup.

> > Current highlights;
> >
> > the readdir acceleration improvements seem to have had an effect -
> > status and diff are notably faster.
> 
> Yes, it looks like they're now being built properly.

Yah, I checked that yesterday before sending these notes, or they would
have been invalid :P.

> > log has slowed down since 1.3
> > log-one-file has got faster
> >
> > (grain of salt - you need to check the scenarios to know what
> > circumstances they are really testing).
> 
> The scenarios are taken from the bzr-usertest plugin, which is
> documented in loving detail here
> <http://people.ubuntu.com/~ianc/plugins/usertest/doc/usertest-tutorial.html>
> and more scenarios would be useful.

I'd love to see networking ones to aid the stuff andrew is working on.

-Rob
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