[platform-releng-dev] Performance results

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As Dani mentioned in the arch call today,
our performance results have not been completing successfully.

This is due to networking problems in
our lab.

We use rsh to connect to the windows
test machines and run the eclipse tests.  Due to a software upgrade
on a switch in our lab, these rsh connections fail intermittently and that
is why there are missing results. The switch software has a bug which our
local IT team has raised with the vendor.  Because the stars were
aligned correctly, the performance results did complete for our 3.3.1 build.
 They didn't complete successfully for 3.4M2.

As well, I am unable to ghost the machines
and run the baselines because dhcp isn't working in our lab to download
the ghost image to our machines.  Even if this was working, the rsh
connections are intermittent so it is unlikely the baselines would complete.

We had a meeting with our local IT team
today and these issues are  their number one priority for resolution.

As well, we are investigating a replacement
for rsh to run our tests on Windows.  However, we have not found an
open source tool that can interact with the windows display in a native
fashion.  (We run our builds on linux and then run tests over the
network to the mac, linux and windows test machines).

Once these issues are resolved, I'll
rerun the performance tests for the 3.4M2 build.

Kim