On 17 August 2012 16:25, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Thanks - that's exactly what I wanted, and I apologise for not reading the manual (again). Note that I did scroll up and down a bit around the rate related settings and didn't see anything related to ramping, but I should have looked harder. Regards, Greg. -- 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
