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Performance Monitoring for Gecko</h2></center>
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<dd>
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<i>maintainer: marc attinasi </i></dd></center>
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<i><a href="mailto:attinasi@netscape.com">attinasi@netscape.com</a></i></dd></center>
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<h3>
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Brief Overview</h3>
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Gecko should be <i>fast</i>. To help us make sure that it is we monitor
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the performance of the system, specifically in terms of Parsing, Content
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Creation, Frame Creation and Style Resolution - the core aspects of layout.
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Facilitating the monitoring of performance across build cycles is a small
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set of tools that work in conjunction with program output coming from the
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Mozilla or Viewer applications to produce tables of performance values
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and historical comparisons of builds analysed in the past. The tools, their
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dependencies and their general care and feeding are the topics of this
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document.
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<h4>
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Usage: A five-step plan to enlightenment</h4>
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<ul>
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<li>
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First, the tools are all designed to run only on Windows. That is really
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a bummer, but since most of what we are measuring is XP it should not really
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matter. Get a Windows NT machine if you want to run the tools.</li>
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<li>
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Next, you need a build that was created with performance monitoring enabled.
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To create such a build you must compile the Mozilla source with a special
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environment variable set. This environment variable turns on code that
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accumulates and dumps performance metrics data. The environment variable
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is: <b>MOZ_PERF=1</b>. Set this environment variable and then build all
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of Mozilla. If you can obtain a build that was built with MOZ_PERF=1 set
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then you can just use that build.</li>
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<li>
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Third, run the script <b>perf.pl</b> to execute Viewer and run through
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the test sites gathering performance data.</li>
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Fourth, make sure the script completed and then open the resultant HTML
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files which is dropped in the Tables subdirectory.</li>
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<li>
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Lasty, stare at the table and the values in it and decide if performance
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is geting better, worse, or staying the same.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>
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The PerfTools</h3>
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<blink>IMPORTANT: </blink>The tools created for monitoring performance
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are very tightly coupled to output from the layout engine. As Viewer (or
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Mozilla) is run it spits-out various timing values to the console. These
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values are captured to files, parsed and assembled into HTML tables showing
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the amount of CPU time dedicated to parsing the document, creating the
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content model, building the frame model, and resolving style during the
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building of the frame model. All of the scripts that make up the perftool
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are locate in the directory <tt>\mozilla\tools\performance\layout.</tt>
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Running them from another location <i>may</i> work, but it is best to run
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from there.
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<p>The perl script, <tt>perf.pl</tt>, is used to invoke Viewer and direct
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it to load various URLs. The URLs to load are contained in a text file,
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on per line. The file <tt>40-URL.txt</tt> is the baseline file and contains
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a listing of file-URLs that are static, meaning they never change, because
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they are snapshots of popular sites. As the script executes it does two
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things:
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<li>
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Invoke Viewer and feed it the URL-file, capturing the output to another
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file</li>
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<li>
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Invoke other perl scripts to process the Viewer output into HTML tables</li>
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</ol>
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A set of perl scripts are used to parse the output of the Viewer application.
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These scripts expect the format of the performance data to be intransient,
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in other words, it should not change or the scripts need to be updated.
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Here are the files involved in parsing the data and generating the HTML
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table:
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<li>
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<tt><b>perf.pl</b> : </tt>The main script that orchestrates the running
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of viewer and the invocation of other scripts, and finally copies files
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to their correct final locations. An example of an invocation of the perf.pl
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script is: '<b><tt><font color="#000000">perl perf.pl</font><font color="#000099">
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Daily-0215 s:\mozilla\0215 cpu</font><font color="#000000">'</font></tt></b></li>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<tt><b><font color="#000099">Daily-0215 </font></b><font color="#000000">is
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the name of the build and can be anything you like.</font></tt></li>
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<li>
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<tt><b><font color="#000099">s:\mozilla\0215 </font></b><font color="#000000">is
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the location of the build. There must be a bin directory under the directory
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you specified, and it must contain the MOZ_PERF enabled build.</font></tt></li>
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<tt><b><font color="#000099">cpu </font></b><font color="#000000">indicates
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that we are timing CPU time. The other option is clock but that is not
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currently functional because of the clock resolution.</font></tt></li>
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</ul>
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<b><tt>Header.pl</tt></b> : a simple script that generates the initial
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portion of the HTML file that will show the performance data for the current
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build.</li>
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<li>
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<tt><b>AverageTable2.pl</b> </tt>: a slightly more complicated script that
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parses the output from Viewer, accumulates data for averaging, and generates
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a row in the HTML table initialized by header.pl. This file is <b>must</b>
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be modified if the performance data output fromat changes.</li>
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<li>
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<tt><b>Footer.pl</b> </tt>: a simple script that inserts the last row in
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the HTML table, the averages row. It also terminates the table and ends
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the HTML tag.</li>
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<li>
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<tt><b>GenFromLogs.pl</b> </tt>: a script that generates the HTML table
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from already existing logs. This is used to regenerate a table after the
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QA Partner script has run, in case the table file is lost or otherwise
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needs to be recreated. Also, if old logs are kept, they can be used to
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regenerate their corresponding table.</li>
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<b><tt>Uncombine.pl</tt></b> : a script that breaks up a single text file
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containing all of the timing data for all of the sites into a separate
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file for each individual site.</li>
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<b><tt>History.pl</tt></b> : a script that generates an HTML file showing
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historical comparison of average performance values for current and previous
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builds.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>
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The URLs</h3>
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It is critical that the URLs that we load while measuring performance do
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not change. This is because we want to compare performance characteristics
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across builds, and if the URLs changed we could not really make valid comparisons.
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Also, as URLs change, they exercise different parts of the application,
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so we really want a consistent set or pages to measure performance against.
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The builds change, the pages do not.
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<p>On February 3, 2000 the top 40 sites were 'snaked' using the tool WebSnake.
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These sites now reside in disk-files and are loaded from those files during
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the load test. The file <tt>40-URL.txt</tt> contains a listing of the file-URLs
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created from the web sites. The original web sites should be obvious from
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the file-URLs.
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<br>
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<blockquote><i><b>NOTE</b>: There are some links to external images in
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the local websites. These should have been resolved by WebSnake but were
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not for some reason. These should be made local at some point so we can
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run without a connection to the internet.</i></blockquote>
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<h3>
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Historical Data and Trending</h3>
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Historical data will be gathered and presented to make it easy for those
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concerned to see how the relative performance of various parts of the product
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change over time. This historical data is kept in a flat file of comma-delimited
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values where each record is indexed by the pull-date/milestone and buildID
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(note that the buildID is not always reliable, however the pull-date/milestone
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is provided by the user when the performance package is run, so it can
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be made to be unique). The Historical Data and Trending table will show
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the averages for Parsing, Content Creation, Frame Creation, Style Resolution,
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Reflow, Total Layout and Total Page Load time for each build, along with
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a simple bar graph representation of each records weight relative to the
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other records in the table. At a later this can be extended to trend individual
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sites, however for most purposes the roll-up of overall averages is sufficient
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to track the performance trends of the engine.
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<h3>
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The Execution Plan</h3>
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Performance monitoring will be run on a weekly basis, and against all Milestone
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builds. The results of the runs will be published for all interested parties
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to see. Interested and/or responsible individuals will review the performance
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data to raise or lower developer awareness of performance problems and
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issues as they arise.
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<p>Currently, the results are published weekly at <a href="http://techno/users/attinasi/publish">http://techno/users/attinasi/publish</a>
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<h3>
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Revision Control and Archiving</h3>
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The scripts are checked into cvs in the directory \mozilla\tools\performance\layout.
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The history.txt file is also checked in to cvs after every run, as are
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the tables produced by the run. Commiting the files to cvs is a manual
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operation and should be completed only when the data has been analysed
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and appears valid. Be sure to:
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<li>
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Commit history.txt after each successful run.</li>
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Add / commit the new table and new trend-table after each successful run
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(in the Tables subdirectory).</li>
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<li>
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Commit any chages to the sciripts or this document.</li>
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</ol>
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History:</h3>
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<td WIDTH="25%">02/04/2000</td>
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<td>Created - attinasi</td>
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<td>03/17/2000</td>
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<td>Removed QA Partner stuff - no longer used</td>
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