Re: Solaris issues in 1.3.1

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Aug 05 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05 2009, Chris Worley wrote:
> > I'm running fio 1.3.1 in Solaris.� I'm seeing two issues:
> > 
> > 1) Direct I/O throws an error.
> > 2) Performance is way too high.
> > 
> > W/o Direct I/O my size is set to 2.5x memory capacity to assure no
> > caching... yet performance for read/write is up to >7x the theoretical
> > speed of the storage device (i.e. it's reporting 7GB/s, when
> > theoretical for the device is 1GB/s).
> > 
> > I'm not seeing the reporting issue in 1.2.1.
> 
> Are you familiar with git? If yes, then you could try and bisect the
> issue. You would do something ala:
> 
> $ git bisect start
> $ git bisect good fio-1.21
> $ git bisect bad fio-1.31
> 
> and then git would checkout a point in between. You would then compile
> and run, checking if it works or not. If the version works, then you
> would reply with
> 
> $ git bisect good
> 
> if not, then you would do
> 
> $ git bisect bad
> 
> This continues until git tells you which commit is the defective one.
> I'll give it a spin on Solaris too, I recently put Solaris 11 on a box
> for test purposes.

Oh, and if you are not, just wait and I'll double check things here. But
please send me your job file(s) so I can reproduce more easily, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe