1747918 - Don't run pingsender during performance tests

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, task)

Description

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

When we enabled pingsender2, we got some Talos regressions in bug 1736796, along with Talos timeouts in bug 1736189. This is presumably because Talos starts and stops the browser in quick succession, and pingsender2 takes longer to start up (by virtue of loading libxul and creating a scratch profile), making it more likely to compete for system resources with the next test.

Easiest thing to do here is just to avoid launching pingsender during performance tests.

Comment 1

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Attachment: Bug 1747918 - Don't invoke pingsender in performance tests.

Comment 2

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

For posterity, this try push [1] shows the pingsender2 talos regression disappearing with this patch.

[1] https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=try&revision=2befab546047ff4f1f59a48cd8d8648b6f6662fe

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6ab17de66b22
Don't invoke pingsender in performance tests. r=chutten,perftest-reviewers,AlexandruIonescu

Comment 4

[Andreea Pavel [:apavel]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6ab17de66b22