1737618 - 0.46 - 0.46% installer size / installer size (OSX) regression on Tue October 19 2021

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: Toolchains, defect)

Description

[Andra Esanu (needinfo me)]

Perfherder has detected a build_metrics performance regression from push 7de44eaecb1327ab6c2471136151c1b8c5a54b40. As author of one of the patches included in that push, we need your help to address this regression.

Regressions:

Ratio	Test	Platform	Options	Absolute values (old vs new)
0.46%	installer size	osx-shippable	instrumented	114,231,789.25 -> 114,756,856.92
0.46%	installer size	osx-shippable	instrumented	114,290,225.96 -> 114,821,207.33

Details of the alert can be found in the alert summary, including links to graphs and comparisons for each of the affected tests. Please follow our guide to handling regression bugs and let us know your plans within 3 business days, or the offending patch(es) will be backed out in accordance with our regression policy.

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Comment 1

[Andra Esanu (needinfo me)]

This was backed out https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731582#c12

== Change summary for alert #32081 (as of Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:22:33 GMT) ==

Regressions:

Ratio	Test	Platform	Options	Absolute values (old vs new)
3%	installer size	osx-shippable	nightly	81,654,413.17 -> 83,792,521.25
2%	installer size	osx-aarch64-shippable	aarch64 nightly	78,984,552.75 -> 80,571,920.25
2%	installer size	osx-aarch64-shippable	aarch64 nightly	79,307,890.08 -> 80,574,214.50

For up to date results, see: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/alerts?id=32081

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1731582

Comment 3

[Andi [:andi]]

I think we can surely ignore this.