brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Kees Cook wrote on 01/10/10 22:19:
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> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>> Kees Cook wrote on 30/09/10 23:10:
>...
>>> Changes to the compiler toolchain, the kernel, etc, all have an
>>> impact on everyone's workloads, but most teams haven't actually
>>> stepped forward and said "THIS workload is important to us, here's
>>> how to reproduce the measurement, and here's where we're tracking
>>> the daily changes to that measurement."
>...
>> Have you asked them why that is? Maybe they don't know how to automate
>> the measurement, where to host it, or who to tell about it.
> 
> In discussions at the last UDS, it seems that most teams could not
> agree on what would be valuable to measure. For the teams that did have
> things they wanted to measure (e.g. a specific firefox rendering speed
> test), no one stepped up to automate it.
>...

Well then, here's a simple task to start with: We should have a single
graph showing, for every application installed by default in Ubuntu over
the past six months, how long that application took each day to show a
non-splash-screen window after a cold launch.

How *would* someone automate that?

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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