On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Chris Worley <worleys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > Is that a single dash prior to "name"? Yes, although that could be due to some sort of oopsie on my part. It doesn't seem to matter (seen here with a small amount of data, hence timeout does not come into play): $ time sudo fio --readonly --minimal --norandommap --timeout=5 -name=/dev/sda1 --rw=randread --size=256k --direct=1 --filename=/dev/sda1 fio 1.55 2;/dev/sda1;0;0;256;529;495;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;366;14021;799.359375;1701.445859;367;14023;799.984375;1701.600223;0;0;0.000000%;0.000000;0.000000;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;2.024291%;0.000000%;76;0;30;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%;35.94%;57.81%;1.56%;1.56%;1.56%;0.00%;1.56%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00% real 0m0.749s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.100s $ time sudo fio --readonly --minimal --norandommap --timeout=5 --name=/dev/sda1 --rw=randread --size=256k --direct=1 --filename=/dev/sda1 fio 1.55 2;/dev/sda1;0;0;256;655;400;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;407;568;435.375000;21.859218;408;570;435.984375;21.941837;0;0;0.000000%;0.000000;0.000000;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;2.506266%;0.000000%;78;0;30;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%;98.44%;1.56%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00% real 0m0.679s user 0m0.010s 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