Re: [platform-releng-dev] performance results

[Billy Biggs <vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The text performance tests on Linux crash our gtk perf machine each
> night.  Billy has been able to reproduce the crash.  However, it seems
> to crash intermittently.  It's not consistently reproducible other
> than during the nightly build.   As a band aid solution for this
> problem would the text team please comment out the call to the
> performance tests in org.eclipse.text.tests/test.xml.  Then I will
> renable the perf tests for the next integration build.  This will
> allow other teams to review their performance results as we continue
> to investigate this problem.

  Just to clarify, I don't think there is any problem in the text tests
themselves, but the kernel panic seems more reproducable when they run.
Until we better understand the steps to reproduce the panic it may be
worth avoiding these tests.

  -Billy