On 2011-09-12 06:33, Vikram Seth wrote: > Hi, > > I am testing random reads on raw devices (hdd and flash) in a host. I > set same runtime value (12 hrs) in test file for each device. > However, while the test is running the ETA for hdd test (11:53 hrs) is > shown as more than twice of flash (4:40hrs). Later the test for flash > completes while the hdd test is still running. > > I thought that having same runtime will cause the test to run for same > amount of time on all devices. > Is that not true ? The runtime option is a runtime cap, meaning that it'll stop the job after the specified time only. If the job finishes before that (eg you tell it to do 100g of IO and that takes a shorter time than the runtime setting), then it'll exit normally. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
