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Gross Dynamic Footprint Reports
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Chris Waterson <waterson@netscape.com>
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November 16, 2000
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This is a short primer on how to run the ``gross dynamic footprint''
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reports.
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Win32
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I've tried this on Win2K. Should work on NT, probably not 98.
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1. Configure your machine with a ``standard'' mozilla build
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environment, as described at:
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http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html
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Specifically, you'll need the Cygnus tools (GNU make, awk, sed), which
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can be downloaded from:
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/download.html
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2. Install the Win32 version of GNUplot, avaialable from:
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ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot3.7cyg.zip
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3. Configure a web server with the ``buster.cgi'' CGI script contained
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in this directory.
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4. Pull and build a ``release'' build. Besides the normal Win32 flags
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described on the Win32 build instructions, be sure that you've set the
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following:
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set BUILD_OPT=1
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set MOZ_DEBUG=
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set MOZ_PROFILE=
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That is, MOZ_DEBUG and MOZ_PROFILE should be unset.
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5. To collect data and build the dynamic footprint graph, type the
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following command from the mozilla/tools/footprint directory:
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make --unix -fwin32-gdf.mk \
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BUSTER_URL="http://myserver/cgi-bin/buster.cgi?refresh=10"
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(Replace ``myserver'' with the name of the webserver where you
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installed ``buster.cgi'' in step 3, above.)
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This should:
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- Build ``wm.exe'', which will spy on memory usage.
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- Run the winEmbed program over the top 100 URLs (from top100.txt)
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to generate a file called ``winEmbed.dat''
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- Run mozilla over the top 100 URLs to generate a file called
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``mozilla.dat''
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- Use gnuplot to create a PNG image file called win32-gdf.png
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Linux
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1. Configure your machine with a ``standard'' mozilla build
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environment, as described at:
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http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html
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2. Install GNUplot, which is available as an RPM on RedHat-6.2 CDs
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(probably others, as well).
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3. Configure a web server with the ``buster.cgi'' CGI script contained
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in this directory.
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4. Pull and build a ``release build''. Here are the settings you
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should use in your .mozconfig file:
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ac_add_options --enable-optimize
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ac_add_options --disable-debug
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ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
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5. To collect data and build the dynamic footprint graph, type the
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following command from the mozilla/tools/footprint directory:
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make -flinux-gdf.mk \
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BUSTER_URL="http://myserver/cgi-bin/buster.cgi?refresh=10"
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(Replace ``myserver'' with the name of the webserver where you
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installed ``buster.cgi'' in step 3, above.)
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Details, details, details
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-------------------------
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1. When running these tests, you'll probably want to use predictable
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cache settings. You can modify $(DIST)/bin/defaults/pref/all.js to
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tweak settings that will be used by [win|gtk]Embed (these programs
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ignore profile-specific settings AFAIK). For example, I've used these
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to try to cull out cache usage altogether:
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pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_size", 0);
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pref("browser.cache.enable", false);
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pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
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pref("browser.cache.memory_cache_size", 0);
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pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
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I think the image cache has a pref that you can use to shut it off as
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well. Haven't found it yet.
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2. If you collect data using Mozilla (as Win32 will do, by default), I
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recommend using a clean profile for consistency's sake. Otherwise,
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results will vary based on random stuff like how big your bookmarks
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are, how big your global history is, whether or not you've started
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mail, etc.
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3. I removed the ``plugin downloader plugin'' libnullplugin.so, as
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well as all other plugins, from $(DIST)/bin/plugins so that no plugins
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would be loaded.
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