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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>,
	Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>,
	776701@bugs.debian.org, fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#776701: ssd-test 1g file size too small
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:04:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E26953.9070001@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13200420.bigzCatb1k@merkaba>

On 02/04/2015 02:10 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hello Daniel, hi Jens,
>
> Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2015, 14:23:34 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>> Package: fio
>> Version: 2.1.11-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> In the ssd-test sample config:
>>
>> https://sources.debian.net/src/fio/2.1.11-2/examples/ssd-test.fio/
>>
>>
>> The test size is 1GB, this line:
>>
>> size=1g
>>
>>
>> There are SSDs that have 1g caches and this leads to unhelpful results.
>>
>> One user I discussed this with had to use a 10g test file to get
>> consistent and meaningful results.
>>
>> Maybe bump the example to 10g or add a comment in front of that line.
>
> As the examples are taken from the upstream tarball, I suggest taking this
> upstream. I put upstream in Cc, Jens, what do you think about this?

Sure, that sounds fine to me. 1G is tiny by todays standards, 10G would 
be a lot more reasonable. I'll commit that change.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-16 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54CCD756.7000105@pocock.pro>
2015-02-04  9:10 ` Bug#776701: ssd-test 1g file size too small Martin Steigerwald
2015-02-16 22:04   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2015-02-17  7:53     ` Martin Steigerwald

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