On 08/16/2012 05:24 PM, Greg Sullivan wrote: > I suggest adding a ramp-up time parameter that can be used to prevent > the rate testing from occurring until the ramp-up time has passed. > This will more accurately model the throughput capacity of streaming > systems that have a pre-load buffer to ride over the initial cache > warm-up period. There's already a ramp time setting, and the rate will not be checked before that has passed. Not sure what extra setting you would like? A ramp time, and then a rate ramp time after that? -- 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