On Thu, Jun 27 2013, Roger Sibert wrote: > Just a thought that came to mind. > > To work around the problem would the following work? > Run fio to get you max MB/s > Write a script to generate you work/jobs file that has randomizes > length of time for the job to run and % of max for it to run at. That's a bit of a bother, though, since you have to collect data and output from each individual run. And not only that, shutdown/startup will make things less than smooth. It could potentially dirty your results. We could have something ala: rate_sequence={10s:20M},{20s:5M} or whatever, which runs 10s at 20M/sec, then 20s at 5M/sec. Repeat. Would be fairly easy to do. -- 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