Hi all, I'm new to fio and I try to measure IOPS, especially write IOPS for a device. I have a Western Digital WD5002ABYS-01B1B0 as /dev/sdd - details see http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=489 I try to run fio --filename=/dev/sdd --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=5G --numjobs=64 --runtime=10 --group_reporting --name=file1 (taken from http://kb.fusionio.com/KB/a29/verifying-linux-system-performance.aspx) In this way, fio reports 140 IOPS (with disk cache being off of course): [root@iotest ~]# hdparm -W0 /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: setting drive write-caching to 0 (off) [root@iotest ~]# fio --filename=/dev/sdd --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=5G --numjobs=64 --runtime=10 --group_reporting --name=file1 file1: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ... file1: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 Starting 64 processes Jobs: 1 (f=1): [_______________________________________Ew_______________________] [1.9% done] [0K/547K /s] [0/133 iops] [eta 10m:19s] s] file1: (groupid=0, jobs=64): err= 0: pid=5894 write: io=5,876KB, bw=564KB/s, iops=140, runt= 10420msec clat (msec): min=6, max=517, avg=461.75, stdev= 5.53 bw (KB/s) : min= 7, max= 52, per=1.42%, avg= 8.00, stdev= 0.05 cpu : usr=0.02%, sys=0.00%, ctx=1485, majf=0, minf=1333 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued r/w: total=0/1469, short=0/0 lat (msec): 10=0.27%, 20=0.14%, 50=0.68%, 100=1.36%, 250=4.63% lat (msec): 500=82.98%, 750=9.94% Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=5,876KB, aggrb=563KB/s, minb=577KB/s, maxb=577KB/s, mint=10420msec, maxt=10420msec Disk stats (read/write): sdd: ios=0/1467, merge=0/1, ticks=0/651445, in_queue=651760, util=99.16% [root@iotest ~]# In the past I simply used dd to get a number for the IO latency, which I then computed to IOPS (again disk cache is off): [root@iotest ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 8.34006 seconds, 61.4 kB/s [root@iotest ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=4k count=1000 oflag=direct 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 4096000 bytes (4.1 MB) copied, 8.34434 seconds, 491 kB/s [root@iotest ~]# This means 8.3ms for a single access -> 1/0.0083s = 120,5 IOPS fio reports me 140 IOPS (nearly 20% more), which would mean 7.14ms for a single access (which is less than WD states for their read seek time) Can you give me a hint what fio parameters you would suggest to measure IOPS? Are the 140 IOPS too high for a 7.200k drive like the one I have? Thanks and best regards, Werner PS: I'm using fio 1.41 under CentOS 5 (64 Bit) -- : Werner Fischer -- 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
