On Wed, Nov 19 2008, Erwan Velu wrote: > My 1.23 fio ouput display : > > read : io=32,003MiB, bw=131MiB/s, iops=1,362, runt=250326msec > slat (usec): min=13, max=145, avg=16.69, stdev= 3.39 > clat (msec): min=31, max=129, avg=46.94, stdev= 7.24 > > clat output of gnuplot reports units in msec. The clat gnuplot output > show a msec label on the y axis but trace some usec. The fio_generate_plots doesn't take the usec vs msec into account, it's basically hard wired. If someone wants to improve the script for better reporting I'd be happy to take it, it's mainly considered an example of how to do the reporting quickly. > slat cli reports values that doesn't match at all what is viewable from > gnuplot output. Averagage is said to be 16 on the cli whereas the > gnuplot trace shows 20 at min. > Max is said to be 145 for slat but displayed at 60 on the gnuplot. > Slat is also said to be usec on the cli but shown as msec on the y axis > of the gnuplot. > > Complete archive showing that could be downloaded at > http://konilope.linuxeries.org/tmp/localr.tar.bz2 > > It seems that units may vary from the cli output regarding the range of > results. I have some case where clat is shown in usec instead of msec. > Maybe that what confuse the gnuplot output. > Like in : > write: io=32,003MiB, bw=124MiB/s, iops=1,294, runt=263681msec > slat (usec): min=12, max=71, avg=15.43, stdev= 2.72 > clat (usec): min=663, max=1,537K, avg=49431.63, stdev=108787.82 > bw (KiB/s) : min= 0, max=171311, per=99.91%, avg=127152.93, > stdev=21619.46 I'll take a look at this. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
