Hi All, This is neto from Brazil How are you? I am trying to simulate the actual IO load as seen in the existing production environment which shows about 10 iops/user with 72% writes. I can’t get the rate_iops to work in fio. Most of the time the job does not complete, first the eta counts down from 10 then the eta time starts increasing. Sometimes I get a report but most of the time I have to ctrl-c to escape. If there is a report it shows iops=0. Does anyone have used that before? Thank you very much neto -- FIO output C:\Temp\VDI Test data>fio VDI_prodn.txt VDI: (g=0): rw=randrw, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=windowsaio, iodepth=1 fio-2.0.14 Starting 1 thread Jobs: 1 (f=1), CR=20/0 IOPS: [m] [0.0% done] [0K/0K/0K /s] [0 /0 /0 iops] [eta 03d:15h:24m:57s] fio: terminating on signal 2 Jobs: 1 (f=1), CR=20/0 IOPS: [m] [0.0% done] [0K/0K/0K /s] [0 /0 /0 iops] [eta 04d:12h:07m:10s] VDI: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=4944: Wed Mar 06 17:20:07 2013 Description : [Emulation of one busy VDI desktop] read : io=8192 B, bw=173 B/s, iops=0 , runt= 47317msec slat (usec): min=106 , max=158 , avg=132.00, stdev=36.77 clat (usec): min=1032 , max=1112 , avg=1072.00, stdev=56.57 lat (usec): min=1190 , max=1218 , avg=1204.00, stdev=19.80 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 1032], 5.00th=[ 1032], 10.00th=[ 1032], 20.00th=[ 1032], | 30.00th=[ 1032], 40.00th=[ 1032], 50.00th=[ 1032], 60.00th=[ 1112], | 70.00th=[ 1112], 80.00th=[ 1112], 90.00th=[ 1112], 95.00th=[ 1112], | 99.00th=[ 1112], 99.50th=[ 1112], 99.90th=[ 1112], 99.95th=[ 1112], | 99.99th=[ 1112] bw (KB/s) : min= 0, max= 0, per=100.00%, avg= 0.00, stdev= 0.00 write: io=8192 B, bw=173 B/s, iops=0 , runt= 47317msec slat (usec): min=191 , max=1736 , avg=963.50, stdev=1092.48 clat (usec): min=1182 , max=1918 , avg=1550.00, stdev=520.43 lat (usec): min=2109 , max=2918 , avg=2513.50, stdev=572.05 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 1176], 5.00th=[ 1176], 10.00th=[ 1176], 20.00th=[ 1176], | 30.00th=[ 1176], 40.00th=[ 1176], 50.00th=[ 1176], 60.00th=[ 1912], | 70.00th=[ 1912], 80.00th=[ 1912], 90.00th=[ 1912], 95.00th=[ 1912], | 99.00th=[ 1912], 99.50th=[ 1912], 99.90th=[ 1912], 99.95th=[ 1912], | 99.99th=[ 1912] bw (KB/s) : min= 0, max= 0, per=100.00%, avg= 0.00, stdev= 0.00 lat (msec) : 2=100.00% ^C C:\Temp\VDI Test data> C:\Temp\VDI Test data> C:\Temp\VDI Test data>fio VDI_prodn.txt VDI: (g=0): rw=randrw, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=windowsaio, iodepth=1 fio-2.0.14 Starting 1 thread Jobs: 1 (f=1), CR=20/0 IOPS: [m] [0.0% done] [0K/0K/0K /s] [0 /0 /0 iops] [eta 01d:08h:12m:21s] fio: terminating on signal 2 ^Cbs: 1 (f=1), CR=20/0 IOPS: [m] [0.0% done] [0K/0K/0K /s] [0 /0 /0 iops] [eta 05d:13h:25m:27s] C:\Temp\VDI Test data> C:\Temp\VDI Test data> -- FIO config file # This job file is to be used with 60 desktops to gather data to be used in sizing for 480 busy VDI desktops [global] description=Emulation of one busy VDI desktop [VDI] bs=4k ioengine=windowsaio rw=randrw # with the actual disk IO has a high % of writes - 70 to 74%, use 72% rwmixwrite=72 # iops based on actual of between 6.75 and 8.9 per user, use 10/VDI rate_iops=10 runtime=10 time_based # select data file based on actual of 2075GB for 395 users = 5.3GB per user, use 5.5GB filename=.\difference.dat direct=1 # attempt to use only 20% of the date file #size=20% thread -- 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