From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from blade3.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.19]:49704 "EHLO BLADE3.ISTI.CNR.IT" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192Ab1ABENF (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:13:05 -0500 Received: from SCRIPT-SPFWL-DAEMON.mx.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x5 #31825) id <01NW4WZX22SWNG6FAQ@mx.isti.cnr.it> for fio@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:12:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from conversionlocal.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x5 #31825) id <01NW4WZWCTV4NG6FAP@mx.isti.cnr.it> for fio@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:11:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.0.0.61] (dynamic-adsl-78-12-75-177.clienti.tiscali.it [78.12.75.177]) by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x5 #31826) with ESMTPSA id <01NW4WZUVRI0NV288K@mx.isti.cnr.it> for fio@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:11:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:12:09 +0100 From: Spelic Subject: Suggestion on size= and test length Message-id: <4D1FFB19.7020202@shiftmail.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: fio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: fio@vger.kernel.org To: fio@vger.kernel.org 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). Thank you