Preferences

The tool have some preferences which may be configured by advanced users. This must be done carefully otherwise, either no data could be read by the tool and/or generated results could be puzzled.

Here's what the page looks like:

Preferences

Database

By default the tool does not connect to any performance results database as common users might not have enough rights to access it. However, users having these rights may want to look at the database contents and update the local data files with it. Hence, it is possible to configure the tool to connect to a database which may be either local or on the releng server (minsky).

Milestones

These are the list of the version milestones. Each milestone is a date string using the yyyymmddHHMM format. When a new milestone is shipped, then a new date must be added to this preference to let the tool to identify it in the builds list and emphasize it...

Default dimension

This is the dimension used to compute delta and make the verification. Currently this is the Elapsed Process Time dimension.

Note that the default dimension must belong to the Results dimensions described below, hence a new selected dimensions will always be automatically added to the list...

Results dimensions

These are dimensions displayed in the scenario data HTML pages. Currently there are the Elapsed Process Time and the CPU Time. Having these dimensions configurable may be interesting to display others dimensions and see whether their numbers may be relevant or not (e.g. Used Hava Heap).

Note that the default dimension described above must belong to the selected dimensions, hence it will always be automatically added to the new selected list...