Hello Bruce, I just noticed a major bug in fio for windows (proven on W7 and WSS 2008R2). It seems the netio-testing doesn't work at all a.t.m, even with elevated privileges. C:\Program Files\fio\examples>..\fio.exe netio receiver: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=net, iodepth=1 sender: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=net, iodepth=1 fio-2.0.9 Starting 2 threads fio: pid=2644, err=1/file:engines/net.c:631, func=socket, error=No error Jobs: 1 (f=0): [XW] [0.0% done] [0K/0K /s] [0 /0 iops] [eta 49710d:06h:19m:22s] C:\Program Files\fio\examples> This happened when testing the example "netio" taskfile. I've written own taskfiles where I get the same error. corresponding code: static int fio_netio_setup_listen_inet(struct thread_data *td, short port) { struct netio_data *nd = td->io_ops->data; struct netio_options *o = td->eo; int fd, opt, type; if (o->proto == FIO_TYPE_TCP) type = SOCK_STREAM; else type = SOCK_DGRAM; --> fd = socket(AF_INET, type, 0); if (fd < 0) { td_verror(td, errno, "socket"); return 1; } [...] May this mean the "socket()" function needs to be used differently in Windows? Can you put a "FixIt" on your ToDo-List for this? all the best, Stefan ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�������^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�