On 2011-10-05 14:15, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2011 schrieben Sie: >> Hi, > > Hi Jens! > >> Those of you tracking git developments may have noticed that >> I created a client-server branch and did a bit of hacking >> in there. It's not complete yet, but it's the start of splitting >> fio into a frontend/backend setup, with the two communicating over >> via simple protocol over tcp/ip. This enables you to run fio >> servers on test machines, with the frontend being run on your >> desktop etc. > > Nice. > > Can it run with a unix socket for localhost? Yes it runs locally too, it doesn't really matter whether the server is remote or on the same machine. Example, one xterm: axboe@nelson:/home/axboe/git/fio $ ./fio -S Another: axboe@nelson:/home/axboe/git/fio $ ./fio --client localhost null Probe: hostname=nelson, be=0, fio ver 1.99.0 <localhost> job: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-32K/4K-32K, ioengine=null, iodepth=32 <localhost> Starting 1 thread ^C<localhost> [w] [25.0% done] [0K/17096M /s] [0 /1508K iops] [eta 00m:03s] job: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=24834 Description : [] write: io=139628MB, bw=18662MB/s, iops=1379.9K, runt= 7482msec clat (usec): min=6 , max=126 , avg=10.79, stdev= 1.85 lat (usec): min=6 , max=127 , avg=10.86, stdev= 1.85 bw (KB/s) : min=16609168, max=21529712, per=101.08%, avg=19316400.57, stdev=1728099.09 cpu : usr=99.89%, sys=0.03%, ctx=1528, majf=0, minf=3 IO depths : 1=0.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=100.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=100.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=100.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued r/w/d: total=0/10324399/0, short=0/0/0 lat (usec): 10=1.51%, 20=4.73%, 50=0.01%, 100=0.01%, 250=0.01% Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=139628MB, aggrb=18662MB/s, minb=19110MB/s, maxb=19110MB/s, mint=7482msec, maxt=7482msec >> One thing that I think would be very cool is a gtk2 frontend. >> Something that allows you to simply click and select options >> and then run the job, with graphical representation of the >> ETA and final output. >> >> If you have gtk development experience, or simply the desire >> to start this project for fio, then please do get in touch. >> Otherwise I'll start this myself, once I'm done with the >> basic frontend/backend funtionality. > > And/Or Qt ;) For sure, or Qt. I think it'd be really cool for various reasons, some people find it a lot easier to visually see all the options and drop down menus as opposed to a CLI tool. Also great for demo purposes. Like iometer - it's a crap tool, but the spedometer thing really works for demo/show purposes. -- 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