[Buildbot-devel] Inconsistent UI performance?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM, David Coppit <david at coppit.org> wrote:
> We're also looking at optimizing waterfall to hit the pickle files less.
> We implemented one fix to sorting. We are also looking at using DB data to
> do pre-filtering for the time range before the pickle files have to be
> read--I would think that would have the same effect as deleting the older
> pickle files.

This sounds like a good optimization, but be aware that as of 0.8.4
you won't be able to do synchronous database queries, and the
waterfall is entirely synchronous.  Which is to say, if you want data
from the database, you will get a deferred back.

> Were there similar optimizations already implemented since 0.8.1? Perhaps
> we should work on upgrading to the latest version instead...

No, the web status has not been significantly optimized, but lots of
other stuff has changed.  If you're patching Buildbot itself, I highly
recommend upgrading to the latest release.  You may also want to track
development on 'master', although right now I don't consider master
stable enough to run.

Dustin