508324 - Stop running tp3 and mothball fast talos machines

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

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

Now that TP4 has been enabled on the hg-based code lines, we're planning to stop running the older TP3, and fast-talos machines.

Earlier today, we enabled a new Talos pageset (TP4) on Firefox3.5 and Tracemonkey.  This new suite has already been enabled on mozilla-central (late June 2009) and Places (early July 2009). 

TP4 consists of a 100 test web pages selected from the Alexa top 500.  This smaller (read: faster!) and newer pageset takes 20-25mins compared to the 60mins required by TP3. For the curious, TP3 contains 400 pages selected from Alexa top 500 in December2006. Since the rollout of TP4 in late June, the numbers have been tracking nicely with TP3, showing that the smaller, faster, newer pageset is just as good as the TP3 pageset. 

With the rollout done, we're now planning to retire Tp3 across all branches and the fast talos machines on 17August2009 on FF3.0.x. 

Posting to Future while we announce these plans, and gather feedback.

Comment 2

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

Attachment: turn off tp3

Comment 3

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

Disabled fast talos columns on Firefox, Firefox3.0 and Firefox3.5.  Will now disconnect talos fast cycle slaves and turn of talos fast buildbot master.

Comment 4

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

qm-plinux-fast01/03/04, qm-pmac-fast01/03/04 and qm-pxp-fast01/03/04 disconnected from master.  Master on qm-rhel02 turned off.

Comment 5

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

We need to remove the sendchange to qm-rhel02 before we can turn that master
off, otherwise it goes red. :(

Turned back on qm-rhel02 until we can resolve that.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 394587 [details] [diff] [review]
turn off tp3

Looks fine to me.

Comment 7

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: remove the sendchange to qm-rhel02

This should turn off all of the sendchanges to the qm-rhel02 master.

Comment 9

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 394834 [details] [diff] [review]
remove the sendchange to qm-rhel02

changeset:   1433:e66d476658c0

Comment 10

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 394587 [details] [diff] [review]
turn off tp3

changeset:   1434:303ae2bc331c

Comment 11

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I kicked a ton of new builds after this landed.

Comment 12

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

We should be good to turn off qm-rhel02 now, I just verified that we're not doing sendchanges to it anymore: http://production-master.build.mozilla.org:8010/builders/OS%20X%2010.5.2%20mozilla-central%20build/builds/3080

Comment 13

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

buildbot on qm-rhel02 turned off.  Fast talos machines now in the pool.

Mothballing complete.