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The macOS devicelab machines are not physically configured for benchmarking at a 60 Hz refresh rate. With Flutter vsync wired up via CVDisplayLink (rather than a hardcoded 60 Hz rate as previously), the bot shows 0 monitors configured and syncs at 30 Hz. This is not a meaningful target to measure against but consumes devicelab CPU cycles.

Given that there is currently no plan in place to acquire and configure a consistent pool of physical benchmarking desktop machines, disabling this test to reduce load on the bots.

See flutter/engine#51210 for a discussion of the decision to move forward with wiring up vsync from macOS and ignore this benchmark.

For future archaeologists, I don't think it's worth removing all the plumbing in the Dart code (in dev/devicelab/lib/tasks/perf_tests.dart) that supports running this benchmark on macOS. If we ever acquire hardware suitable for benchmarking with the appropriate HDMI dongle to simulate a 60Hz 4k display, for example, it would be reasonable to re-enable this benchmark.

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The macOS devicelab machines are not physically configured for
benchmarking at a 60 Hz refresh rate. With Flutter vsync wired up via
CVDisplayLink (rather than a hardcoded 60 Hz rate as previously), the
bot shows 0 monitors configured and syncs at 30 Hz. This is not a
meaningful target to measure against but consumes devicelab CPU cycles.

Given that there is currently no plan in place to acquire and configure
a consistent pool of physical benchmarking desktop machines, disabling
this test to reduce load on the bots.

See flutter/engine#51210 for a discussion of the
decision to move forward with wiring up vsync from macOS and ignore this
benchmark.
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LGTM

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