I am trying to create a job file that randomly select a file form an imported list and reads the entire file sequentially. Them moves to the next file. I also want multiple jobs(processe) running the same workload. I have this: [global] bs=4k time_based=1 runtime=15m iodepth=4 rw=read ioengine=libaio time_based=1 ramp_time=600s norandommap [job1] opendir=/${FIO_MOUNT}/session1/small_file1 file_service_type=sequential numjobs=8 I used file_service_type=sequential because tought without it it would only do a single read (block) from the file before switching to a different file, which is not what I want. The issue with this test as written is it seems like all the fio processes choose files in the same order so I get way more cache hits than I want. I want this to be more of a random file selection, but with reading whole file. Any advice? Steve -- 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