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From: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Subject: Re: RBD speed vs threads
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:29:25 +0200
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Am 15.06.2012 18:33, schrieb Sage Weil:
> The one other thing worth mentioning here is that "thread" is really a
> misnomer.  Rados bench is actually dispatching it's IO asynchronously from
> a single thread, and the -t option is really controlling the number of
> IO's in flight.  That is more or less what you get if you have N threads
> doing a single synchronous IO each, which is why the option is called
> that.

THX

Stefan