Performance Meeting Notes - June 20, 2005

Attendees

• Katie, Sheila, Aparna

Decisions and Next Steps

• Send a message to the dev list/blog our target platform info for performance testing (Sheila)
• Remove the extra RAM from the pc and linux test machines (Aparna)
• Send out a note to dev with the latest test results after we re-run the tests on all the machines (minus ram, os reinstall on mac) (Aparna).
• Proposal for the excel tool by the end of the week (Katie).
• Talk to Morgen about alternatives to not lock up the UI if the import takes too long (Katie).

Notes

Target Hardware

• Aparna sent request to chris to order Mac Mini.
• In the meantime, Aparna reformatted kiluaea, reinstalled tiger and we will use this until the mac mini arrives.
• Aparna will look after removing the extra RAM for pc and linux machines sometime this week.
• Sheila will send out an email this week to dev and blog something summarizing the target machines we have decided on.

General Performance Testing

• Anthony created the 1000 event calendar and uploaded in iCal and update the performance testing page.
• This week, Anthony will try this on chandler on mac and record the results.
• iCal handles events recurring events and Chandler doesn't so we won't worry about recurring events until we have this implemented.
• After looking at Anthony's latest data, we decided that we should have some unit tests written and try and do some analysis to determine how to improve the performance is a couple of areas that we need to understand more about, particularly stamping and switching views. Katie will own this.
• Aparna will send a message to the dev list letting people know the times and latest tests that anthony has run.
• Before sending the message to the dev list, we will have Anthony re-run the tests on pc, linux after we remove the ram. We will also run them on the mac with the reinstall.
• We will have Anthony do a comparison test for a 1000 and a 3000 event calendar to understand how much slower the latter is. We should try this on both iCal as well as Outlook.
• Katie will talk to Morgen about alternatives if we can't get the import to be fast enough - ie: not lock up the app and have the import running in the background so the user can do other things.