(resending in plain text - sigh) I tried to use the "rate" functionality on Windows some time ago, and it was extremely erratic. As I recall, the Windows maintainer couldn't reproduce the behaviour I was observing, and since the work I was doing was not critical, I gave up. (yes - I know - boo hiss! :) :) On 24 January 2013 07:03, Hong Jiang <hong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > it has been running for over 20 hours. nothing seems to be happening, > but it just doesn't exit, and no result printed. I am running it on > a window 7 vm (on vmware ESX). > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Matt Hayward <matt.hayward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Hong, > > How long did you let it run for? > > > > My belief is that this will do 32 megabytes of reads in each of > > the files, at a rate of 1250 _bytes_ per second. This should take > > over 7 hours. > > > > Maybe remove the "rate" argument, or change it to 1250k or something? > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Hong Jiang <hong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Hi there, > >> > >> This is a followup question - the attached sample job file, I could > >> run it successfully on linux but on Windows, even though the files are > >> created, fio never exit. I tried same test on local system directory > >> on Windows, the same situation. Does anyone know why? Thanks! > >> > >> ; Keep adding 1024kb/s reading clients at 4 seconds > >> [global] > >> size=32m > >> rw=read > >> directory=C:\Users\xxxx\test > >> rate=1250 > >> #ratemin=1024 > >> > >> [file1] > >> startdelay=0 > >> > >> [file2] > >> startdelay=4 > >> > >> [file3] > >> startdelay=8 > >> > >> [file4] > >> startdelay=12 > >> > >> [file5] > >> startdelay=16 > >> > >> [file6] > >> startdelay=20 > >> > >> [file7] > >> startdelay=24 > >> > >> [file8] > >> startdelay=28 > >> > >> [file9] > >> startdelay=32 > >> > >> [file10] > >> startdelay=36 > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Hong Jiang <hong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Thanks for all the suggestions. Yes I did observe files being > >> > created. I will play more with it taking your inputs. > >> > > >> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> On 2013-01-11 20:24, Hong Jiang wrote: > >> >>> Hi there, > >> >>> > >> >>> I am pretty new to this tool, and currently evaluating it on both > >> >>> linux and windows platforms. Would appreciate if someone shows me an > >> >>> example of job file that can test this scenario: > >> >>> > >> >>> I have a share that's created out of the "cloud", on windows client > >> >>> side it's mounted as a new drive, on linux it's mounted to a > >> >>> directory. I would like to run some file op tests against the share. > >> >>> > >> >>> I tried to use the example job file that came with the package - > >> >>> 1mbs_clients, modifying the "directory" parameter setting in the file, > >> >>> but I am not sure it's really running against the share, as the result > >> >>> looks exact the same when I ran the test on 2 different shares. > >> >>> > >> >>> Thanks in advance for your help! > >> >> > >> >> Delete the output files and run the test again? If the files are > >> >> created, then you should be able to safely confirm that it is running > >> >> where you think it is running. Fio will prefix any file with the > >> >> --directory= setting. So if you did set it, it should work... > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Matthew Hayward > > Director Professional Services > > Delphix: > > https://www.facebook.com/DelphixCorp > > https://twitter.com/delphixcorp > > M: 206.849.6389 > > 275 Middlefield Road, Suite 50 > > Menlo Park, CA 94025 > > http://www.delphix.com > -- > 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 -- 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