Re: Understanding bandwidth results

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On Sun, Jun 30 2013, Andrew Davidoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In fio output, I see two values for bandwidth that I'd expect to be
> the same, but that are different. For example, in the results from a
> sync randread fileio test:
> 
> read : io=182811KB, bw=18279KB/s, iops=18279, runt= 10001msec
> ...
>     bw (KB  /s): min=  966, max=21410, per=99.59%, avg=18204.94, stdev=5773.57
> 
> 
> I realize they are close, but why are the values for bw= and avg= not
> the same? I want to make sure I understand if these are not actually
> reporting on the same statistic.
> 
> Also, why is per= not 100%, if this job was run with only a single
> thread in a single group?

That's just rounding and imprecise math. Should be fixed up though. It's
calculated in stat.c:show_ddir_status() and I'll be happy to take
patches :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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