383506 - Create new Talos suite: show free system memory in talos

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: Talos, defect, P5)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

I'd like to see total free system memory as another bit of data from the tp/ts run. It'd be one way to tell if the system went into swap or not (which would make the perf numbers unreliable).

For linux, this is in /proc so should be trivial there. 

On win32, looks like we only use the Process object:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/testing/performance/talos/tp.py#75

I think if we can get at the Memory object, we can get what we want. More info:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/552aeaad-c8c9-45a8-b536-17bde655f7cb1033.mspx?mfr=true

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 2

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Moving this bug to Testing:General for suite development, as requested by bmoss, ctalbert. 

Once this new suite is developed, please file a separate bug in mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering to enable running the new suite on builds automatically.

Comment 3

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Moving to Talos component.

Comment 4

[Jeff Hammel]

Is this bug still applicable?