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10<h1>Preferences</h1>
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12The tool have some preferences which may be configured by advanced users.
13This must be done carefully otherwise, either no data could be read by the tool
14and/or generated results could be puzzled.
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16Here's what the page looks like:
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19<h2>Database</h2>
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21By default the tool does not connect to any performance results database as common
22users might not have enough rights to access it. However, users having these
23rights may want to look at the database contents and update the local data files
24with it. Hence, it is possible to configure the tool to connect to a database
25which may be either local or on the releng server (<code><b>minsky</b></code>).
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28<h2>Milestones</h2>
29<p>
30These are the list of the version milestones. Each milestone is a date string
31using the <b>yyyymmddHHMM</b> format. When a new milestone is shipped, then a new
32date must be added to this preference to let the tool to identify it in the builds
33list and emphasize it...
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36<h2>Default dimension</h2>
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38This is the dimension used to compute delta and make the verification. Currently
39this is the <b>Elapsed Process Time</b> dimension.
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41<i>Note that the default dimension must belong to the <b>Results dimensions</b>
42described below, hence a new selected dimensions will always be automatically
43added to the list...</i>
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46<h2>Results dimensions</h2>
47<p>
48These are dimensions displayed in the scenario data HTML pages. Currently there
49are the <b>Elapsed Process Time</b> and the <b>CPU Time</b>. Having these dimensions
50configurable may be interesting to display others dimensions and see whether their
51numbers may be relevant or not (e.g. <b>Used Hava Heap</b>).
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53<i>Note that the default dimension described above must belong to the selected
54dimensions, hence it will always be automatically added to the new selected list...</i>
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