On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Chris Worley <worleys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can we see your fio command? I never use job files, and always use > timeouts successfully. Absolutely: # Doesn't terminate for "quite a while" (I wasn't willing to wait) time sudo fio --readonly --minimal --norandommap --timeout=5 -name=/dev/sda1 --rw=randread --size=1GB --direct=1 --filename=/dev/sda1 With a jobfile called jobs.fio: [/dev/sda1] rw=randread size=1GB filename=/dev/sda1 direct=1 Everything is great: time sudo fio --readonly --minimal --norandommap --timeout=5 jobs.fio fio 1.55 2;/dev/sda1;0;0;41820;8563;5001;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;322;90574;460.528551;1378.863841;322;90575;461.305308;1378.867201;6880;9232;101.283584%;8469.333333;915.606903;0;0;0;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000%;0.000000;0.000000;4.000000%;0.000000%;10467;0;35;100.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;95.88%;3.25%;0.60%;0.17%;0.05%;0.02%;0.00%;0.00%;0.03%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00% real 0m5.288s user 0m0.200s sys 0m0.150s -- fdr -- 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