I was thinking that we could lower the compile phase from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes if: 1) We accept the fact that SPARC is NOT a tier one platform and move it entirely to the deep phase of the build 2) We move the compilation of the test media off of the linux64 slave and put it onto the mac64 slave Solaris Compile phase data: solaris.total -> 19:28 This is the current long pole for the compile phase Linux64 Compile phase data: linux64.total -> 14 mintues linux64.compileAS -> 3.5 mintues linux64.newTotal-> 10.5 minutes This is the second long pole in the compile phase, and will be the new long pole by just a couple of minutes if this work is done. Mac64 Compile phase data: mac64.total -> 2:40 mac64.compileAS -> 45 seconds mac64.newTotal -> 3:25

nice!

If we completely drop solaris from the build system we could chop off 3 hours from the deep phase of the build. Solaris is currently the long pole there @ 10 hours, next builder is taking 7 hours.

will 7 vs 10 hours matter to anybody? ie. whats the benefit?

(not that 3h isn't good of course). What configurations do we build on solaris? i'd be in favor of paring it back, if we can, before dropping it entirely. Is it possible for an external agent (oracle, maybe) to manage build slaves so we know when stuff breaks, even though we don't have the machines locally?

Can a solaris x86 vmware machine cross-compile to sparc?

Removes solaris from the all phases of the buildbot builds. Does not touch any source code references.

changeset: 6413:0ee1249729a3 user: James Sudduth <jsudduth@adobe.com> summary: Bug 658602 - Decreasing COMPILE phase time in buildbot by 50% r=cpeyer) http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/0ee1249729a3

changeset: 6416:fb5459b4763d user: James Sudduth <jsudduth@adobe.com> summary: Bug 658602 - Decreasing COMPILE phase time in buildbot by 50% (r=cpeyer) - followup for upload test media failure http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/fb5459b4763d

The linux64 machine needed to call util_upload_asteam instead of util_upload_asteam_local, and the mac64-intel box needed to do the opposite since it's compiling the test media now.

Jim: As a follow up task can you clean up the linux64/scripts directory. Remove the following dead scripts: - upload-asteam.sh - upload-mozilla.sh - build-check.sh ** ** I am not sure why this build slave is using a local script to do this check since it matches the common script. Would be best to change build step definition to call the common "build-check" and then remove this local script.

changeset: 6422:51a682e946bd user: James Sudduth <jsudduth@adobe.com> summary: Bug 658602 - Decreasing COMPILE phase time in buildbot by 50% (r=cpeyer) - remove unneeded scripts http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/51a682e946bd