From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <54345B52.7060306@kernel.dk> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:29:54 -0600 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: FIO - Client and Server - Suggestion References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Neto, Antonio Jose Rodrigues" , "fio@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On 10/07/2014 11:38 AM, Neto, Antonio Jose Rodrigues wrote: > Hi All, > > This is neto from Brazil > > How are you? > > One small suggestion: > > Running Client and Server architecture on FIO, we need to have all config > files "locally" to run it. > > > Nossa Senhora:tools neto$ ls > 151 152 fio > > > > Nossa Senhora:tools neto$ ./fio --client 10.61.109.151 151 --client > 10.61.109.152 152 > hostname=s2, be=0, 64-bit, os=Linux, arch=x86-64, fio=fio-2.1.13-31-g15e3, > flags=1 > hostname=s1, be=0, 64-bit, os=Linux, arch=x86-64, fio=fio-2.1.13-31-g15e3, > flags=1 > workload: (g=0): rw=read, workload: (g=0): rw=read, > bs=64K-64K/64K-64K/64K-64K, bs=64K-64K/64K-64K/64K-64K, ioengine=libaio, > iodepth=1 > ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 > > If we are doing a test in an HPC environment with hundred of files, > wouldn't be easier to try to point to a single location for the file and > access it remotely (we won't need to copy it locally). > > > For example: > > ./fio --client 10.61.109.151 --remote-config /root/fio/151 --client > 10.61.109.152 --remote-config /root/fio/152 > > > Thoughts? That's a good idea, would not be hard to insert that step of having the remote fio server load a local config file. I'll look into that. -- Jens Axboe