Seems fio is being killed by the oom-killer after fio verify runs for some time ~13 hours. What parameters can I tweak or how can I run my test differently so the test will be completed with out interruption? Any help is appericated My System has 16GB of memory, 12 x 3TB Drives and one 60GB SSD Disk information cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/*/model | sort | uniq -c 12 Hitachi HUA72303 1 KINGSTON SVP200S fio --version fio 1.50 uname -a Linux myhostname 2.6.39-t4.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 31 13:18:29 PST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the script: #!/bin/bash set -e IO_DEPTH=1 BLOCK_SIZE=4096 IO_ENGINE=libaio READ_WRITE=write DIRECT=1 VERIFY=crc32c-intel BUFFERED=0 VERIFY_FATAL=1 /usr/bin/fio \ --minimal \ --readwrite=${READ_WRITE} \ --blocksize=${BLOCK_SIZE} \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdj \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdj \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdm \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdm \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdd \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdd \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sde \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sde \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdf \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdf \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdg \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdg \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sda \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sda \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdb \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdb \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdc \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdc \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdl \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdl \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdk \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdk \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdh \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdh \ --ioengine=${IO_ENGINE} \ --direct=${DIRECT} \ --buffered=${BUFFERED} \ --iodepth=${IO_DEPTH} \ --verify=${VERIFY} \ --verify_fatal=${VERIFY_FATAL} \ --name=verify_sdi \ --new_group \ --filename=/dev/sdi -- 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