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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Roger Sibert <roger_sibert@xyratex.com>
Cc: FIO <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Simulating bursts at different rates at irregular intervals?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:16:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627141648.GY25599@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABFR9T3w9iOFZbjffxam13yKv9xUSNnV5VcwzPiyUnhB_0frfg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 27 2013, Roger Sibert wrote:
> Just a thought that came to mind.
> 
> To work around the problem would the following work?
> Run fio to get you max MB/s
> Write a script to generate you work/jobs file that has randomizes
> length of time for the job to run and % of max for it to run at.

That's a bit of a bother, though, since you have to collect data and
output from each individual run. And not only that, shutdown/startup
will make things less than smooth. It could potentially dirty your
results.

We could have something ala:

rate_sequence={10s:20M},{20s:5M}

or whatever, which runs 10s at 20M/sec, then 20s at 5M/sec. Repeat.
Would be fairly easy to do.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2013-06-27  8:37 ` Simulating bursts at different rates at irregular intervals? James Vanns
2013-06-27  9:02   ` Jens Axboe
2013-06-27 10:45     ` Roger Sibert
2013-06-27 14:16       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-06-27 14:37         ` James Vanns

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