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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Mark Nelson <mark.a.nelson@gmail.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in logging code?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:38:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533C4B06.9070108@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533C2B54.6030606@gmail.com>

On 04/02/2014 09:23 AM, Mark Nelson wrote:
> I've been playing around with usng the various write_*_log options in
> fio to record run statistics.  What I'm finding is that some of the logs
> have malformed lines in them.  The following snippet is from the bw log:
>
> 811820, 12263, 0, 4194304
> 812619, 35929, 0, 4194304
> 818437, 8448, 0, 419430, 4194304
> 1256299, 160627, 0, 4194304
> 1256831, 154274, 0, 4194304
>
> Notice that the malformed line appears to be a partial write that gets
> truncated.  The fio command being used to run the tests is
> autogenerated, so job files aren't used.  here's the one that created
> the above log snippet:
>
> /home/nhm/bin/fio
> --rw=read
> --ioengine=libaio
> --runtime=7200
> --ramp_time=0
> --numjobs=1
> --direct=1
> --bs=4194304B
> --iodepth=16
> --size=9216M
> --write_iops_log=/tmp/cbt/ceph/kvmrbdfio/osd_ra-00004096/client_ra-00000128/op_size-04194304/concurrent_procs-008/iodepth-016/read/output
>
> --write_bw_log=/tmp/cbt/ceph/kvmrbdfio/osd_ra-00004096/client_ra-00000128/op_size-04194304/concurrent_procs-008/iodepth-016/read/output
>
> --write_lat_log=/tmp/cbt/ceph/kvmrbdfio/osd_ra-00004096/client_ra-00000128/op_size-04194304/concurrent_procs-008/iodepth-016/read/output
>
> --time_based
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-0
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-1
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-2
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-3
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-4
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-5
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-6
> --name=/srv/rbdfio-`hostname -s`-0/cbt-kvmrbdfio-7
>
> The --numjobs=1 line should be removed, but I believe it gets overridden
> anyway with multiple name parameters.  I wonder if having multiple name
> parameters (ie multiple fio processes) is causing those processes to all
> try to write to the same log files, potentially at the same time?  Any
> thoughts would be much appreicated!

What version of fio are you running?

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 15:23 bug in logging code? Mark Nelson
2014-04-02 17:38 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-04-02 17:53   ` Mark Nelson
2014-04-02 17:55     ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-02 18:24       ` Mark Nelson
2014-04-02 18:55         ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-02 20:38           ` Mark Nelson
2014-04-03  3:24             ` Jens Axboe
2014-04-04  4:58               ` Andrey Kuzmin
2014-04-04  5:05                 ` Jens Axboe
2014-05-28 14:01               ` Mark Nelson

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