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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Aug 2017
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Type: Bug
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issue 733894
issue 734853



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Analyze and reduce noise in gpu graphics memory measurements

Project Member Reported by perezju@chromium.org, Jun 16 2017

Issue description

According to the analysis on all system health stories [1], the gpu graphics memory tend to be the noisiest across most stories.

The distribution of values for this metric is tightly bimodal, with measurements clustering around two different values.

For example on browse:news:cricbuzz [2], one of the largest offenders, from 100 samples we observe on the metric: 'by_os:gpu_memory:graphics:proportional_resident'

A)  7.6 MiB on 32 samples
B) 15.2 MiB on 68 samples

Example traces for each of the measurements are:

A) https://console.developers.google.com/m/cloudstorage/b/chromium-telemetry/o/trace-file-id_73-2017-06-14_22-12-49-89116.html
B) https://console.developers.google.com/m/cloudstorage/b/chromium-telemetry/o/trace-file-id_72-2017-06-14_22-12-47-52078.html

[1]: https://colab.corp.google.com/v2/notebook#fileId=0B586tdnIdbhKTDd2SHUwa2tCT1U
[2]: https://colab.corp.google.com/v2/notebook#fileId=0B586tdnIdbhKQkN2aTdBYzlSVHM
 
Cc: perezju@chromium.org
 Issue 703638  has been merged into this issue.
Cc: erikc...@chromium.org
Components: Speed>Benchmarks Speed>Metrics
Blocking: 734853
Components: Internals>Instrumentation>Memory
Owner: perezju@chromium.org
perezju@, does the work in  issue 734853  address this?
Cc: charliea@chromium.org
The recommendation to reduce gpu noise recommended in  issue 734853  was tried in  issue 737353 , but got reverted since it did not yield any improvements.

TL;DR from  crbug.com/737353#c39 , something in the range [1], before my fix landed, caused the noise in gpu metrics to reduce significantly. And my CL did not have any effect after that.

[1]: http://test-results.appspot.com/revision_range?start=477936&end=481246

I think I'll do a new analysis of noise soon to figure out what the current situation is.
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Labels: Performance-Noise
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
The noise situation gpu/cc has somewhat improved since my attempt in #7. I'm going to close this one in favor of the blocking issues instead:

 issue 734853  - the longer term solution for gpu/cc is to trigger memory dumps from within Chrome at appropriate times.

 issue 733894  - the catch-all issue where overall efforts on noise reduction will be tracked; now focusing on java_heap, which has become the worst offender since the improvements in gpu/cc.

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