Linux, Mac, and Win Release Tests. Note the size of the ZIP files at the bottom 
of these pages:

http://build.webkit.org/old-results/Chromium%20Linux%20Release%20%28Tests%29/

versus:

http://build.webkit.org/old-results/SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Leaks/


If it's useful data, I'll store it for you. I have plenty of disk space. It is 
just that when the directory list gets so large, accessing/iterating gets 
slower, and the larger disk array is not our fastest media.

-Bill



On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Eric Seidel wrote:

> That does not sound expected or desired.  Could you point me to which
> Chromium builders are responsible for so much data?
> 
> I suspect this is an artifact of new-run-webkit-tests or how the
> Chromium builders are set up.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM, William Siegrist <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Right now, /results/ is served from the new storage and is receiving test 
>> results data since a day or two ago. For anything older, you will get 
>> redirected to /old-results/ which is on the old storage. This probably 
>> breaks your code if you are trying to load /results/ and walk backwards in 
>> revisions. We should probably look at adding some sort of map to the 
>> /json/builders/ data instead.
>> 
>> On a side note, Chromium test results account for 75% of the 700GB of result 
>> data, SnowLeopard is 11%, then everyone else. I assume Chromium generating 
>> so much more data than everyone else is expected and desired?
>> 
>> -Bill
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Eric Seidel wrote:
>> 
>>> The most frequent consumer of the historical data is webkit-patch,
>>> which uses it to map from revisions to builds:
>>> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/net/buildbot.py#L109
>>> 
>>> It's used when we're walking back through revisions trying to find
>>> when the build broke, or when the user passes us a revision and
>>> expects us to know build information about such.
>>> 
>>> It's possible we could move off that map with some re-design.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> One thing which would *hugely* speed up webkit-patch failure-reason
>>> (and sherriff-bot, and other commands which use the
>>> build_to_revision_map) is if we could make the results/ pages
>>> paginated.  :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I would be nice to keep all the build data for forever.  Even if after
>>> some date in the past its on a slower server.
>>> 
>>> -eric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, William Siegrist <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:13 AM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:27 AM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am in the process of moving buildbot onto faster storage which should 
>>>>>> help with performance. However, during the move, performance will be 
>>>>>> even worse due to the extra i/o. There will be a downtime period in the 
>>>>>> next few days to do the final switchover, but I won't know when that 
>>>>>> will be until the preliminary copying is done. I am trying not to kill 
>>>>>> the master completely, but there have been some slave disconnects due to 
>>>>>> the load already this morning. I'll let everyone know when the downtime 
>>>>>> will be once I know.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The copying of data will take days at the rate we're going, and the 
>>>>> server is exhibiting some strange memory paging in the process. I am 
>>>>> going to reboot the server and try copying with the buildbot master down. 
>>>>> The master will be down for about 15m, if I can't get the copy done in 
>>>>> that time I will schedule a longer downtime at a better time. Sorry for 
>>>>> the churn.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Most of build.webkit.org is now running on the newer/faster storage. 
>>>> However, the results data[1] is hundreds of gigabytes, going back 6 
>>>> months, and the new storage is not big enough. Does anyone have any 
>>>> opinion on how much data to keep in results? Does anyone ever look back 
>>>> more than a month or two? For now, the results will still come up a 
>>>> slowly, but hopefully the rest of buildbot is a little more responsive. 
>>>> We're still planning to move all of webkit.org to better hardware soon, 
>>>> but we hit some delays in that process.
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://build.webkit.org/results/
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Bill
>>>> 
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