I was expecting these two to be the same value. You give this example in the HOWTO: write: io= 32MB, bw= 666KB/s, iops=89 , runt= 50320msec slat (msec): min= 0, max= 136, avg= 0.03, stdev= 1.92 clat (msec): min= 0, max= 631, avg=48.50, stdev=86.82 bw (KB/s) : min= 0, max= 1196, per=51.00%, avg=664.02, stdev=681.68 There's a small difference between them: 666KB/s vs 664.02KB/s bw= Average bandwidth rate bw=Bandwidth. Same names as the xlat stats, but also includes an approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth this thread received in this group. This last value is slat=Submission latency (avg being the average, stdev being the standard deviation). >From these descriptions I'd guess they are supposed to be the same value. >From tests I can see big differences between them (at least with group_reporting): - bandwidth (KB/s) - increases with number of threads and plateaus - Bw (KB/s) mean - decreases with number of threads and plateaus -- Lucian -- 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