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From: Saeed <ionictea@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fio jobs time_based & runtime scope
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:15:29 -0500
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Here's the example:

[global]
bs=4k
ioengine=libaio
iodepth=32
size=1g
direct=1
time_based=1
runtime=300
filename=/dev/sdb
group_reporting
numjobs=1

# validation
do_verify=1
verify_fatal=1
verify_dump=1

verify_pattern=0x00000001

[sequential]
rw=readwrite
stonewall

[random]
rw=randrw
stonewall

So with this job file there are two job declarations (sequential & 
random).  Does the time_based & runtime requirement apply to the entire 
job as a whole or per job declaration?

On 2016-07-25 17:13:57 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler said:

> On 25 July 2016 at 18:00, Saeed 
> <ionictea@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If a job file contains x number of job declarations ([jobxx]) how does the
>> 'time_based" and 'runtime' scoped?
>> 
>> Is it per job declaration or inclusive of all the job declarations in the
>> file?  I'm trying to set a limit in run time to have the jobs run until a
>> certain amount of time has been reached and the jobs still run over the
>> 'runtime' defined limit
> 
> Could you give a minimal job file that demonstrates the problem and
> just to check are you using time_based too
> (https://github.com/axboe/fio/blob/fio-2.13/HOWTO#L1200 )?