From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Spelic <spelic@shiftmail.org>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion on size= and test length
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:04:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D21AD43.3090200@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D1FFB19.7020202@shiftmail.org>
On 2011-01-02 05:12, Spelic wrote:
> Dear fio developers,
>
> Thanks for the very good application, but may I suggest that the size=
> option controls only the size of the files used for the test (in
> particular random r/w tests), while there should be another option
> totaltransfer= which controls how long is the test? And/or a walltime=
> option to make the test length time based... even better!
>
> Currently we either are hit by short seeks (size= small) or have to
> wait for impossibly long tests uselessly (size= large).
What about just adding a runtime= setting to shorten the run? Use the
full size, but put a cap on runtime.
--
Jens Axboe
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2011-01-02 4:12 Suggestion on size= and test length Spelic
2011-01-03 11:04 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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