data gathering the old fashioned way

…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:

  1. The value of idle.lastDailyNotification from about:config.
  2. The version of your nightly build (menubar -> Help -> About Nightly).
  3. 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!

30 comments

  1. 1. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331576719
    2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    3. 6 hours

  2. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331662331
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    At most an hour.

  3. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331646216
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    uptime = ~2 hrs

  4. idle.lastDailyNotification: 1331509289
    nightly version: 13.0a1 (2012-03-10)
    nightly uptime: ~3 days

  5. 1.lastDailyNotification =1331575687
    2. version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    3. 2hours

  6. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331576293
    13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
    ~24 hours

  7. 1. 1330787391
    2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    3. 30 minutes

  8. 1. 1331579129
    2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
    3. 29 hours (this browser is running permanently but restarted for an update yesterday)

  9. Mike Beltzner

    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

  10. 1331659743
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    45 mins

  11. 1331672414
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    30 min

  12. 1331610954
    13.0a1 (2012-03-06)
    3 days

  13. 1331409929
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    about 30 min

  14. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331548785
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    4 hours

  15. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331578396 (18:53 GMT)
    version 13.0a1 build 20120313054314
    up 7 hours (15:11 GMT)

  16. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331573926
    version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    ~2 hours

  17. 1331408552
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120313 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120313090404
    1 hour

  18. 1331589317
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    2 hours

  19. Patrick O'Leary

    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

  20. idle.lastDailyNotification = 1331690110
    version = 13.0a1 (2012-03-12)
    (Built from hg c6f26a8dcd08)
    uptime = about 1 to 2 hours

  21. 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…

  22. 1. 1331673867 (Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:24:27 GMT)
    2. 13.0a1 (2012-03-13)
    3. Since yesterday evening (16 hours?)

  23. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

    1. 1331642237
    2. Current version 13.0a1 (13.0~a1~hg20120229r87985-0ubuntu1~umd1~oneiric)
    3. 24-48 hours, maybe?

  24. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331671499
    13.0a1 (2012-03-13) – self-compiled, Linux x86_64
    running for 3h now (2012-03-14 13:13 UTC).

  25. Robert O'Callahan

    1329351894
    self-built from rev 9fb9c1cfc1df, i686-pc-mingw32
    Up for a few days (but sleeping most of the time)

  26. idle.lastDailyNotification 1331746178

    64bit 14.0a1 (Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c71845b3b2a6)

    Up for an hour or two.

  27. 1331761664
    13.0a1 (2012-03-01)
    about 2 hours

  28. idle.lastDailyNotification;1331825812
    14.0a1 (2012-03-15)
    about an hour

  29. B.J. Herbison

    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.)

  30. 1332247381
    14.0a1 20120320
    About 5 minutes