1059393 - Investigate reducing the power consumption by pushing SafeBrowsing updates

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, defect, P5)

Description

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

gcp and I discussed the possibility of using push.

Comment 1

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Need to let a Firefox run for 1-2 days and log all updates, then process the log and see how often there were no updates in the 30-45 minute update window, so where we effectively went online and did an update check for nothing.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

See also Bug 1031160.

Is this something that should be limited to Android, or is it applicable for desktop, too?

Comment 3

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

blassey's proposal would be applicable to desktop too.

Comment 4

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

filter on [mass-p5]

Comment 5

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Attachment: safebrowsing.txt.gz

Logfile of about 2.5 days of updates.

Comment 6

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Attachment: sbparse.py

Simple analysis script

Comment 7

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

The outcome of running the analysis script on the logs is...that every single 30 minute spaced update ends up downloading data and update the database:

Update at 2014-11-12 12:31:26.278252 delay 0 minutes, 0 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 13:00:10.622261 delay 28 minutes, 3808 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 13:30:00.267559 delay 29 minutes, 3599 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 14:00:37.050257 delay 30 minutes, 7378 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 14:30:10.815466 delay 29 minutes, 8192 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 15:00:52.971238 delay 30 minutes, 12738 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 15:30:03.718076 delay 29 minutes, 4296 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 16:01:52.435503 delay 31 minutes, 5837 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 16:32:39.152793 delay 30 minutes, 5719 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 17:00:39.871105 delay 28 minutes, 5680 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 17:31:37.942764 delay 30 minutes, 4733 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 18:02:02.597752 delay 30 minutes, 6728 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 18:31:31.255913 delay 29 minutes, 4305 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 19:03:21.968364 delay 31 minutes, 6622 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 19:31:47.678387 delay 28 minutes, 5897 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 20:01:59.359068 delay 30 minutes, 4053 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 20:31:09.078595 delay 29 minutes, 3874 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 21:02:23.771388 delay 31 minutes, 5189 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 21:31:08.463747 delay 28 minutes, 3882 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 22:01:59.138444 delay 30 minutes, 4636 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 22:32:47.840446 delay 30 minutes, 8109 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 23:03:18.519815 delay 30 minutes, 11157 bytes
Update at 2014-11-12 23:35:09.230081 delay 31 minutes, 13168 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 00:04:15.901222 delay 29 minutes, 8591 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 00:32:50.578565 delay 28 minutes, 16622 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 01:03:03.304404 delay 30 minutes, 56487 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 01:34:26.073013 delay 31 minutes, 12928 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 02:03:24.756840 delay 28 minutes, 7112 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 02:34:57.439494 delay 31 minutes, 8464 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 03:04:56.200627 delay 29 minutes, 6700 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 03:33:13.918090 delay 28 minutes, 7248 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 04:03:37.625108 delay 30 minutes, 11771 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 04:34:13.331620 delay 30 minutes, 6744 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 05:05:03.067462 delay 30 minutes, 5794 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 05:36:35.772569 delay 31 minutes, 5594 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 06:06:50.478707 delay 30 minutes, 5366 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 06:35:41.176673 delay 28 minutes, 3189 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 07:04:39.868136 delay 28 minutes, 3803 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 07:36:24.566616 delay 31 minutes, 5876 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 08:08:02.299993 delay 31 minutes, 3515 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 08:38:58.996585 delay 30 minutes, 3083 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 09:09:12.692861 delay 30 minutes, 6028 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 09:38:18.421405 delay 29 minutes, 5329 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 10:10:07.139587 delay 31 minutes, 4538 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 10:38:38.816951 delay 28 minutes, 3809 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 11:09:19.530012 delay 30 minutes, 5438 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 11:37:46.226775 delay 28 minutes, 5906 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 12:08:50.936138 delay 31 minutes, 501 bytes  (400 BAD HTTP response!)
Update at 2014-11-13 12:41:30.295536 delay 32 minutes, 4465 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 13:11:55.337842 delay 30 minutes, 4299 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 13:41:38.380257 delay 29 minutes, 7013 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 14:10:44.089349 delay 29 minutes, 5291 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 14:40:55.795034 delay 30 minutes, 3805 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 15:11:55.467579 delay 30 minutes, 5576 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 15:42:51.182854 delay 30 minutes, 3999 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 16:13:44.852820 delay 30 minutes, 5684 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 16:44:14.542382 delay 30 minutes, 4082 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 17:12:32.237657 delay 28 minutes, 4586 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 17:41:15.916816 delay 28 minutes, 5042 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 18:10:48.592400 delay 29 minutes, 7498 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 18:40:40.345257 delay 29 minutes, 4309 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 19:11:35.299340 delay 30 minutes, 6167 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 19:40:21.030640 delay 28 minutes, 10161 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 20:11:34.730640 delay 31 minutes, 6663 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 20:40:34.452115 delay 28 minutes, 6038 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 21:11:44.427703 delay 31 minutes, 6720 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 21:42:35.180463 delay 30 minutes, 8527 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 22:10:42.236734 delay 28 minutes, 10134 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 22:41:15.959404 delay 30 minutes, 10719 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 23:09:35.671516 delay 28 minutes, 6006 bytes
Update at 2014-11-13 23:40:13.504883 delay 30 minutes, 4947 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 00:09:09.206932 delay 28 minutes, 4478 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 00:39:14.892675 delay 30 minutes, 5124 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 01:11:00.561887 delay 31 minutes, 7419 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 01:41:54.248844 delay 30 minutes, 14445 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 02:11:17.948649 delay 29 minutes, 14445 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 02:41:48.662465 delay 30 minutes, 13009 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 03:13:13.361265 delay 31 minutes, 6521 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 03:43:35.060503 delay 30 minutes, 4376 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 04:14:37.755287 delay 31 minutes, 4943 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 04:44:39.474470 delay 30 minutes, 4410 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 05:16:33.189067 delay 31 minutes, 3554 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 05:45:07.141309 delay 28 minutes, 2844 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 06:15:29.830836 delay 30 minutes, 4283 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 06:45:21.736481 delay 29 minutes, 3663 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 07:15:51.617480 delay 30 minutes, 5457 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 07:46:43.321854 delay 30 minutes, 4721 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 08:17:11.032875 delay 30 minutes, 5358 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 08:47:29.735573 delay 30 minutes, 6204 bytes
Update at 2014-11-14 09:17:49.402552 delay 30 minutes, 5121 bytes

So there's nothing to gain in battery use just by using push here.

Comment 8

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Closing this bug. We can open new ones for new ideas.