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== <font color="Peru">Project Name </font>==
PGO Related Bugs
== <font color="Peru">Project Description </font>==
Firefox crashes or experiences bugs after creating PGO builds on Windows. The focus of this project is to determine what is causing these crashes or bugs and either patch/fix them or find solutions to allow for the optimizations without incurring the problems.
As of Oct 2nd:<br />Profiling Firefox to increase the number of functions optimized in the PGO build of Firefox. == <font color="Peru">Project Leader(s) </font>==
*[[User:cbishop2|Chris Bishop]]
== <font color="Peru">Project Contributor(s) </font>==
*What should be profiled?*A write up on steps to produce profile.*Creating scripts to execute profile steps.<br />{| border="1"!style= "width:auto"|Name!style="width:25px"|!style="width:auto"|Contribution|-|Chris Bishop ( Example )||Script to open and close Firefox.|-|}<br /><br />*Need some bash scripting help.*I'm on IRC as chrisBee {| border="1"!style="width:auto"|Name!style="width:25px"|!style="width:auto"|Script Contribution|-|[[User:cdpatel1|Chinmay Patel]]||Created a small script to search and replace a piece of text in a file.|-|} == <font color="Peru">Project Tasks </font>==
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<th style="width: 15%;">Task</th>
<th style="width: 5%;">Status</th>
<th style="width: 8%;">Target</th>
<th style="width: 25%;">Link(s)or Notes</th>
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<td>I need to reproduce the bugs or crashes other people were experiencing with their pgo builds.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">High</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: whitegreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Not StartedDone</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">0.1 R</td>
<td>Unable to reproduce. Focusing on profiling Firefox. [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/10/change-of-direction.html Blog Post]</td>
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<td>'''Compile Firefox PGO Tests'''</td>
<td>Compile Firefox with VS 2005 and Vista SDK and compile with VS 2008 w/o Vista SDK.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">lowLow</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: white; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Not Started</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">0.3 R</td>
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<td>'''Determine 0.1 Release'''</td>
<td>I need to determine what I'll be releasing for the 0.1 Release.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">High</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: whitegreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">On GoingDone</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Sept 28th, 2008</td>
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<td>'''Scenario Scripts'''</td>
<td>I need a script that will build multiple PGO builds in different directories using different profiling scenarios.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">High</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: green; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Done</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Oct 24th, 2008</td>
<td>I need some help from contributors to help me accomplish this. **Update** Thanks to Chinmay and Dave Humphrey I was able to create this script.</td>
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<td>'''Create SQLite Upstream Bug'''</td>
<td>I have determined the pgo bug is actually with SQLite and it needs to be added to the upstream for it to be worked on.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">High</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: white; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">On Going</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Oct 24th, 2008</td>
<td>Looking into how to actual do this</td>
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<th colspan="6">0.2 Release</th>
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<td>'''Setup Test Environment'''</td>
<td>I need to setup a test environment to duplicate the testing done on Thunderbird.</td>
<td style="background-color: Orange; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: bigger">High</td>
<!-- color green when done --><td style="background-color: green; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Done</td>
<td style="background-color: YellowGreen; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Nov 4th, 2008</td>
<td>I have this VM setup but I am not using yet since my XP OS that is not on a VM is much faster.</td>
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== <font color="Peru">Project Details </font>== === Conversations === {||width="15px"||December 6th|Ted Mielczarek|-||colspan="2"|I told Ted about how a large number of pgc (profile data) files were in a folder that gets deleted before the pgc files get used to optimize Thunderbird. It turns out that this folder gets clobbered to make sure if some one rebuilt their try after removing a component that it would not still be there. Ted suggest adding a flag that <code>ifndef MOZ_PROFILE_USE</code> then go ahead and clobber it otherwise don't.<br /><br />That is only one part of it. The pgc files need to be merged into their corresponding pgd (program database) files but the script that does this only looks in one directory. I think I can just tell it to look in both locations. The <code>pgomerge.py</code> does not return errors for files not found.<br /><br />Ted also said I should create another bug about this - how components can't be PGO'd on Win32.|} === PGO Details === {||width="15px"||[[PGO_Build_Details| Details]]|-||[[PGO_Related_Bugs/TB_Details|Thunderbird PGO Details]]|} ==== Thunderbird ===={||width="15px"||[[PGO_Build_Details/TB-Addrbook| Address Book enabled with PGO]]<br/>Turned on speed optimizations for the Address Book module. |} === Testing Scripts ==={||width="15px"|| {|class="collapsible collapsed" style="border-style:solid;border-width:thin;border-color:black"!align="left" style="background-color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold;border-style:solid;border-width:thin;padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;"|The scripts I am using for running tests against my builds ( Oct 2nd, 2008 )|-|<code>#!/bin/sh</code><br/><span style="color:green;">''####### the .mozconfig file to use for this build''</span><br /><code>export MOZCONFIG=/f/mozilla/.mozconfigPGO</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### the subdirectory trunk holds my src files''</span><br /><code>cd trunk</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### time the profile build and output stdout and stderr to files that are timestamped''</span><br /><code>time make -f client.mk profiledbuild 1> /i/mozilla/pgo-output-`date +%s`.txt 2> /i/mozilla/pgo-errors-`date +%s`.txt''</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### after the build is completed done run the xpcshell tests and output stdout and stderr to file that are timestamped''</span><br /><code>make check 1> /i/mozilla/pgo-check-output-`date +%s`.txt 2> /i/mozilla/pgo-check-errors-`date +%s`.txt</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### change to the objdir directory then to the mochitest directory''</span><br /><code>cd /i/mozilla/ff-pgo/_tests/testing/mochitest</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### run the mochitest, run test right away, close the browser when done, log all output to a timestamped file''</span><br /><code>python runtests.py --autorun --close-when-done --log-file=/i/mozilla/pgo-mochitest-`date +%s`.log --file-level=DEBUG</code>|}<br />{|class="collapsible collapsed" style="border-style:solid;border-width:thin;border-color:black"!align="left" style="background-color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold;border-style:solid;border-width:thin;padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;"|Here is the .mozconfig file ( Oct 2nd, 2008 )|-|<code>. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig</code><br /><code>mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/i/mozilla/ff-pgo</code><br /><code>mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j5</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### this is the script to run after the first build to gather profile data''</span><br /><code>mk_add_options PROFILE_GEN_SCRIPT="sh /f/mozilla/pgo.sh"</code><br /><code>ac_add_options --disable-vista-sdk-requirements</code><br /><span style="color:green;">''####### this has to be enabled to perform the mochitests''</span><br /><code>ac_add_options --enable-tests</code><br /><code>ac_add_options --disable-debug</code><br /><code>ac_add_options --disable-accessibility</code>|}<br />{|class="collapsible collapsed" style="border-style:solid;border-width:thin;border-color:black"!align="left" style="background-color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold;border-style:solid;border-width:thin;padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;"|Here is the script the profile build runs to gather profile data ( Oct 2nd, 2008 )|-|<pre>#!/bin/shexport NO_EM_RESTART=1mkdir $OBJDIR/_profileprofilecd /i/mozilla/ff-pgo/_tests/testing/mochitestpython runtests.py --autorun --close-when-done --log-file=/i/mozilla/pgo-profile-mochitest-`date +%s`.log --file-level=DEBUG</pre>|} |}
=== Related Bugs ===
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|width="25px15px"||-|| Profiledbuild doesn't work on comm-central - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448515 448515]|-|
|Figure out why building jemalloc breaks with PGO enabled - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419470 419470]
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|win32 mozilla-central weirdness with PGO - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437002 437002]
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|To enable PGO on Thunderbird a module in the Mozilla core needs to have PGO disabled - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465592 465592] - Resolved
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|Components cannot be PGO'd on Windows - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468285 468285]
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|js3250!1.pgc remains in dist/bin during a PGO build - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467271 467271]
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=== Patches ===
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|Here is the [[PGO_Related_Bugs/Patches#465592|patch]] for bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465592 465592].
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|Here is the proposed [[PGO_Related_Bugs/Patches#468285 | patches]] for bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468285 468285].
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=== Releases ===
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==== <span style="color:SaddleBrown;">0.1 Release </span> ====
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|width="15px"||{|!width="25px"|!|-|colspan="2"|'''Reproduce bug(s)'''|-||Was able to reproduce bug for sqlite pgo.|-|colspan="2"|'''Document how to reproduce bug(s).'''|-||To enable PGO for sqlite a line must be commented in a make file.<br />in path/to/src/db/sqlite/src/Makefile.in<br /> add a hash to the line <code>NO_PROFILE_GUIDED_OPTIMIZE = 1</code> <br />should look like <code>#NO_PROFILE_GUIDED_OPTIMIZE = 1</code><br />The build firefox with <code>make -f client.mk profiledbuild</code><br />in the .mozconfig file you'll need an extra parameter <code>mk_add_options PROFILE_GEN_SCRIPT="sh script/to/run.sh"</code><br /><em>My Script file</em> has the following: <pre>export NO_EM_RESTART=1 #this means 'do not restart for any reason' during automation we do not want any restarting mkdir $OBJDIR/_profileprofile cd $OBJDIR/_tests/testing/mochitestpython runtests.py --test-path=browser/ --autorun --close-when-done</pre> |-|colspan="2"|'''Hone in on cause of bug(s).'''|-||Turns out the bug is in the sqlite3.c file. I can reproduce the error when creating a stand alone sqlite application and enabling PGO on the application.|-|colspan="2"|'''Running xpcshell and Mochitest against PGO build.'''|-||Since firefox right out crashes I am unable to run Mochitests but the xpcshell tests do run until they hit the storage tests.<br />{|class="collapsible collapsed" style="border-style:solid;border-width:thin;border-color:black"!align="left" style="background-color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold;border-style:solid;border-width:thin;padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;"|SQLite PGO Errors in xpcshell ( Oct 16th, 2008 )|-|<pre>TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-365166.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-365166.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-393952.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-393952.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-429521.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-429521.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-444233.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_bug-444233.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_connection_executeAsync.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_connection_executeAsync.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_like.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_like.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | ../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_like_escape.js | test failed, see log../../_tests/xpcshell-simple/test_storage/unit/test_like_escape.js.log:>>>>>>>*** Storage Tests: Trying to close! <<<<<<<make[2]: *** [check] Interruptmake[1]: *** [check] Interruptmake: *** [check] Interrupt</pre>|}||-|colspan="2"|'''Create strategy for profiling Firefox to improve performance. '''|-||I tried different approaches to profiling for Firefox to improve its performance but I was not able to help it at all. I have concluded that the existing script of opening and closing the browser is more than enough for profiling. The browser is rendered using the same components to render and load web pages this means profiling the loading and rendering of the browser will optimize the rendering and loading of web pages.|-|colspan="2"|'''Deliverable'''|-
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==== <span style="color:SaddleBrown;">0.2 Release </span> ====
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|width="15px"|| {|!width="25px"|!|-|colspan="2"|'''Setup Testing Environment'''|-||Created Windows 2003 Server VM - but I am still using my faster Windows XP OS since it is not a VM. The test environment will be used to verify performance data once testing of PGO begins. Either in 0.3 or beyond.|-|colspan="2"|'''Compile Thunderbird with PGO'''|-||I successfully compiled Thunderbird with PGO. It required modifying a file. I blogged about it [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/11/success.html here].|-|colspan="2"|'''Compile Steps'''|-||I also have the steps to compile Thunderbird with PGO [[PGO_Related_Bugs/Thunderbird|here]].|-|colspan="2"|'''Contribute to Existing Bug'''|-
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=== Errors ===
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Thunderbird PGO Errors<br />
The lcms module breaks pgo. [[PGO_Related_Bugs/TB_PGO_Errors|Found Here]]
=== Performance ===
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Last updated: October 11th, 2008
==== [[PGO_Pref_data_here| PGO Performance data ]]====
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== <font color="Peru">Project News </font>== === December 2008==={|!width="100px"|Date!width="15px"|!Comments|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 8nd, 2008||I successfully optimized the components but I broke something small. I [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/12/thunderbird-components-getting.html blogged] about it.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 6nd, 2008||I posted a new bug about components not getting optimized for Windows. This is the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468285 bug].|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 6nd, 2008||After talking with Ted Mielczarek on IRC I have found out why the files I'm profiling are not getting merged into the optimized build. [[PGO_Related_Bugs#Conversations|Here]] is the conversation.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 6nd, 2008||My patch has made into mozilla-central. Here is the [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/12/patch-landed.html blog] posting.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 5nd, 2008||My patch has been reviewed. It needed some changes but was approved. This is the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465592 bug].|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 5nd, 2008||Still trying to get the address book optimized. Discovered that all the modules are getting optimized for size by default. I [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/12/optimizing-thunderbird-address-book_05.html blogged] about it.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 3nd, 2008||Added speed optimizations to the address book module in Thunderbird. This library gets linked into the mail.dll.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Dec 2nd, 2008||I got a patch up that will disable pgo for the mozlcms module when it is not linked into the xul.dll.|} === November 2008===----{|!width="100px"|Date!width="15px"|!Comments|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 24th, 2008||I've been looking at the Thunderbird Makefiles. I'm trying to understand how the build process works. I [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/11/understanding-thunderbird-build-process.html blogged] about it.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 18th, 2008||I created a new [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465592 bug] to get input on how to enable PGO for Thunderbird without modifying the Mozilla core files. Blog is [http://dee132.blogspot.com/2008/11/lets-start-converation.html here].|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 12th, 2008||I have updated my 0.2 Release.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 12th, 2008||Nomis who is working on enabling PGO for TB on Mac is having different errors than me. He is posting to the same bug as I am.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 12th, 2008||A closed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448515 bug] for PGO on Thunderbird has been re-opened. I am posting to it with new information and findings.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 7th, 2008||I posted results from using PGO.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 7th, 2008||I successfully compiled Thunderbird with PGO enabled. I had to disable PGO for the mozlcms.dll.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 4th, 2008||Made change to the client.mk file for Thunderbird and compiled it with PGO enable. I received a compile error.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Nov 1st, 2008||Installed Windows 2003 for creating a testing environment.|} === October 2008 ===----{|!width="100px"|Date!width="15px"|!Comments|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 28th, 2008||Focusing on adding PGO to Thunderbird. Built Thunderbird from source.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 17th, 2008||I have written up my 0.1 Release and have blogged about it.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 16th, 2008||After compiling Firefox with sqlite pgo enabled I was able to reproduce the crash as reported on the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419893 bug]. I also received errors in xpcshell which I posted to the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419893 bug] on bugzilla. I also created a test application for sqlite and found it crashed when compiled with PGO as a stand alone application.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 14th, 2008||Through the contribution of a fellow student I was able to create a script to automate multiple PGO Builds.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 11th, 2008||I checked my performance tests again this time including a pgo build with no profiling and Google Maps was 45% on both Minefields. Regardless of the profiling. |-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 10th, 2008||Updated the contributions section for help with creating bash shell scripts. |-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 10th, 2008||Made a pgo performance chart. Google Maps was 45% faster in my pgo build after I profiled the site. |-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 8th, 2008||Still receiving 35 failed tests even when I have no windows open and am not at the computer.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 8th, 2008||Ted mentioned on IRC that the 35 failed tests may of happened because I was moving my mouse during the tests. Which I was. I'm going to try the tests again.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 7th, 2008||Using pgomgr I am able to see what profiling data has been collected.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 4th, 2008||A build of Firefox without PGO resulted in 35 failed Tests in Mochitest. Xpcshell passed just fine. At this time the tree is closed so I cannot get the latest bug free version.|-valign="top"|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" |Oct 2nd, 2008||After talking with Ted and Dave Humphrey I am going to focus my project on increasing the profiling of Firefox to increase its speed.<br />I am also enabling the modules that have PGO disable and running the xpcshell and Mochitests on them to determine if they are still broken or if they are now working.|}
=== September 2008 ===
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|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" | Sept 30th, 2008
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|Failed to reproduce bugs. I followed Ted's suggestions on my blog but still not experiencing any problems with my pgo build.
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|style="color:green;font-weight:bold" | Sept 28th, 2008
