Test Day:2009-02-19 20SecondStartup

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thu February 19, 2009	From 12:00 to 00:00 UTC (7am -> 7pm ET)	#fedora-qa)

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on:

• Features/20SecondStartup

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Harald Hoyer
• Quality Assurance - David Kovalsky, Ondrej Hudlicky, James Laska, Adam Williamson

Prerequisite for Test Day

• Rawhide fully updated (some tips below). Remember, Rawhide is an unsupported development branch: use an installation you don't mind getting broken.
• FAS Account - you can create an account in 3 minutes if you don't have one
• Selinux enabled. If you need to run in permissive mode please file a bug against selinux

no animals will be hurt during testing

How to test?

Update your machine to latest Rawhide

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.

For encrypted root partitions, you have to use patched plymouth packages.

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

• QA/Testcase_bootchart_personal
• QA/Testcase_bootchart_desktop
• QA/Testcase_bootchart_server
• QA/Testcase_bootchart_minimal

A more advanced test case is optional:

• QA/Testcase_bootchart_full_desktop_start

Optionally, perform the testing with different configurations, particularly with different filesystems - we are interested in results with ext3, ext4, and xfs.

Optionally, test with another distribution, ideally on the same system and with a similar range of services for comparison.

Send in your results

Upload the files generated as you ran the test cases. You will get an error page after each file upload - don't worry, this is normal. After performing the upload, go to the File list page and you will see your upload at the top of the list. The URL to use when you add it to the table is the one labelled '(file)'.

To fill in the table, use an existing line - like Adam Williamson's - as a model. The first column should be your name, with a link to your User: page, or perhaps your email or IRC nick if you don't have a useful User: page. The second column should be a link to your profile page on Smolt - you should have got this URL when you uploaded your hardware profile to Smolt as you performed the tests. The remaining columns, except the last, should contain links to the files you just uploaded: both the readahead and non-readahead files for each test case. If you generated images, you can see how long each case took and use that time as the text for the link, as in Adam Williamson's entry. The last column is for notes.

If you are having trouble with the table, just ask for help in IRC.

Now you're finished! Take a look into the bootcharts and identify bottlenecks. Use the notes section for simple notes, or services like http://www.pastebin.com if you want to add more information about your hardware. If you find any bugs, or have ideas how to improve the boot experience, file a bug into Red Hat Bugzilla.

The test day is divided into 2 parts - first part is about gathering the data. In the second part we're going to go through the data and prepare a report.

Results

User	Smolt Profile	Bootchart - my setup	Bootchart - desktop	Bootchart - server	Bootchart - minimal	Bootchart - full desktop	Comments
User:SampleUser
David Kovalský	HW				38s RA: 36s noselinux: 35s		Intel P4 @ 3.2GHz (HT enabled), 2GB, ext3
Adam Williamson	HW	27s RA: 27s	25s RA: 27s	31s RA: 29s	23s RA: 21s		Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.34GHz, 4GB, ext4
Martin Sourada	HW	40s RA: 38s	46s RA: 44s	52s RA: 51s	40s RA: 40s	1m21s RA: 1m16s	Celeron M420 @ 1.6GHz, 1.5GB, ext3
Petr Sklenar	HW		42s				Lenovo T500

Results (other distros)

User	Smolt Profile	Bootchart data	Distro	Enabled services	Comments
User:SampleUser
Adam Williamson	HW	24s	Mandriva Cooker 2009/02/13	Equivalent to my Fedora services	Same machine as in Fedora chart. ext3