On Fri, Apr 26 2013, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26 2013, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25 2013, John Williams wrote: > > > Are there any plans to add %random / %sequential capability to fio? > > > > > > That is the only feature IOMeter has that I miss in fio. > > > > Sure, that'd be pretty easy to add. Let me take a look this morning. > > Done. Did a few test runs to check it. > > percentage_random=50 > Random: 16313 (50.036808), Seq: 16289 (49.963192) > > percentage_random=10 > Random: 3239 (9.942292), Seq: 29339 (90.057708) > > percentage_random=72 > Random: 23467 (71.993496), Seq: 9129 (28.006504) > > percentage_random=100 > Random: 32596 (99.990797), Seq: 3 (0.009203) > > percentage_random=0 > Random: 1 (0.003066), Seq: 32613 (99.996934) > > Note that the first IO is always counted as random, which is why the =0 > test says only 99.996% sequential. In fact it is fully sequential. Committed with documentation: http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=commit;h=211c9b8948b43ed47aedf1227e0444a58db015e4 So you can just grab the latest generated snapshot, or git update. -- 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