[webkit-dev] SnowLeopard debug buildbot not there

Adam Roben aroben at apple.com
Thu Mar 10 12:48:07 PST 2011


On Mar 10, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com> wrote:
>> On 2011-03-10, at 12:27, Adam Barth wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2011-03-10, at 12:08, David Levin wrote:
>>>>> tL;dr "Why isn't there a SnowLeopard debug buildbot? Related:  
>>>>> Why does the commit queue (appear) to only run release builds  
>>>>> through tests?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Details:
>>>>> Yesterday, I did a build of WebKit on SnowLeopard and hit ~12  
>>>>> crashes (mostly in inspector tests).
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I realized that we don't have such a bot, so perhaps that's  
>>>>> why these crashes aren't getting noticed by people. It also  
>>>>> looks like the commit queue only runs release builds. I have a  
>>>>> concern that not having this allows the code to become less  
>>>>> stable than it should be.
>>>>
>>>> The SnowLeopard Leaks bot builds and tests the debug configuration.
>>>
>>> The problem with the leaks bot is that it's always red.  At the  
>>> moment
>>> it has 10792 leaks.
>>
>> Fixing the leaks would help address this, and is obviously  
>> beneficial in itself.  It certainly didn't have anywhere near this  
>> number of leaks last week.
>
> What's the best way to tack down when that regression occurred?  I
> scrolled to the end of the waterfall for that builder
>
> http://build.webkit.org/waterfall?last_time=1299183958&show=SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Leaks
>
> and the earliest build I could find had 10344 leaks.

You can look at a page like: http://build.webkit.org/builders/SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Leaks?numbuilds=500

And then you can start manually decreasing the build number on pages  
like: http://build.webkit.org/builders/SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Leaks/builds/15273

-Adam



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