A Little QA Work
by Al
We’ve been having heat issues with some of our Mac Minis that are used for automation and stress testing in the QA lab here at Mozilla. We’re doing a revamp of our QA lab space right now and moving things around so Tony decided to “fix” the heat problem.
It turns out that the main problem with the older Mac Minis is caused by poor air circulation. Sometimes turning them on the side works but it wasn’t helping. Tony’s solution is up on the QA wiki.
On a plus note, the drill was actually won as a prize at the QA outing a couple of weeks ago so I’m glad that we finally found a use for it.
Comments
Why are all the images flipped?
I have no idea. Perhaps Tony is better with the drill than with the camera. :-)
And whats with the blue area in the bottom left (or should I say right) corner?
How have the heat problems been showing themselves? I’ve got an original 1.42Ghz Mac Mini that often gets left doing Folding@Home (distributed computing project) for hours at a time and I’ve not had any problems – but maybe my room is cooler?
One of our QA guys uses it for performance tests so it gets pretty stressed out. I don’t know the details other than that it runs a bunch of automation and we have to reboot it a lot…
As to the images, it turns out that they were taken with the isight camera on a Macbook Pro. Beyond that, I’m not the authority on why things look a certain way. :-)
You could always come into IRC and ask tchung about it.