Or rather, eta is broken while fio is busy forking processes, which takes some time at numjobs=1024. And while they are shutting down at the end a run. (fio 1.38) Early in the run: [139M/15217K /s] [35K/3715 iops] [eta 1158035696d:06h:32m:18s] At the end: Jobs: 8 (f=8): [___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________m___m__________________________________mmmmmm] [0.5% done] [91226K/10174K /s] [22K/2484 iops] [eta 02h:04m:00s] Hopefully just a cosmetic issue... Using this job file: [global] direct=1 rw=randrw rwmixread=90 rwmixwrite=10 bs=4k size=10G numjobs=1024 runtime=30 time_based group_reporting [rw-iops] filename=/dev/fioa2 Btw, what's the intended replacement for rwmixcycle, since that is marked deprecated in the source and on use? -- -erik http://useofwords.blogspot.com/ -- 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