…by asking people.
We’re trying to track down a bug that has massively decreased our Telemetry gathering rates. Our first suspects were bug 707320 (persistent telemetry) and bug 717061 (telemetry request compression), but neither of those are present in nightly builds when we start seeing the drop. (And by all accounts, they test fine from the metrics side of things, too.) One possible candidate is bug 720493, but we’d need some data to confirm that.
Hence this post. If you are running a nightly build, please leave a comment with:
- The value of idle.lastDailyNotification from about:config.
- The version of your nightly build (menubar -> Help -> About Nightly).
- How long your current browser session has been up for (approximately).
Please note that you do not need to be sending in telemetry data for the above data to be useful. Thanks!
1. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331576719
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
3. 6 hours
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331662331
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
At most an hour.
idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331646216
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
uptime = ~2 hrs
idle.lastDailyNotification: 1331509289
nightly version: 13.0a1 (2012-03-10)
nightly uptime: ~3 days
1.lastDailyNotification =1331575687
2. version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
3. 2hours
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331576293
13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
~24 hours
1. 1330787391
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
3. 30 minutes
1. 1331579129
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
3. 29 hours (this browser is running permanently but restarted for an update yesterday)
1. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331567376
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
3. I just rebooted for an update, but this browser’s been up for days
1331659743
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
45 mins
1331672414
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
30 min
1331610954
13.0a1 (2012-03-06)
3 days
1331409929
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
about 30 min
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331548785
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
4 hours
idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331578396 (18:53 GMT)
version 13.0a1 build 20120313054314
up 7 hours (15:11 GMT)
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331573926
version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
~2 hours
1331408552
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120313 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120313090404
1 hour
1331589317
13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
2 hours
1331603895 (03 / 12 / 12 @ 8:58:15pm EST)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120311 Firefox/13.0a1
~2 days
idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331690110
version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
(Built from hg c6f26a8dcd08)
uptime = about 1 to 2 hours
1. 1331697197 (Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:53:17 GMT)
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-10)
3. less than an hour; about to restart for update…
1. 1331673867 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:24:27 GMT)
2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
3. Since yesterday evening (16 hours?)
1. 1331642237
2. Current version 13.0a1 (13.0~a1~hg20120229r87985-0ubuntu1~umd1~oneiric)
3. 24-48 hours, maybe?
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331671499
13.0a1 (2012-03-13) – self-compiled, Linux x86_64
running for 3h now (2012-03-14 13:13 UTC).
1329351894
self-built from rev 9fb9c1cfc1df, i686-pc-mingw32
Up for a few days (but sleeping most of the time)
idle.lastDailyNotification 1331746178
64bit 14.0a1 (Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c71845b3b2a6)
Up for an hour or two.
1331761664
13.0a1 (2012-03-01)
about 2 hours
idle.lastDailyNotification;1331825812
14.0a1 (2012-03-15)
about an hour
idle.lastDailyNotification: 1331937075
14.0a1 (2012-03-16)
about two hours
(Feel free to e-mail if you want other samples. Tomorrow this computer will probably be on for about 12 hours.)
1332247381
14.0a1 20120320
About 5 minutes