On Sat, Jul 18 2009, Richard Kennedy wrote: > Disk stats (read/write): > dm-0: ios=3571/9894, merge=0/0, ticks=25884/31650, in_queue=511733, util=96.46%, aggrios=0/0, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=0/0, aggrin_queue=0, aggrutil=0.00% If you look at the disk stats, it also shows a considerable amount of reads. So I'm guessing that you need pre_read=1 to get the same sort of results. -- 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