Hello Everyone, I was looking to use fio to run full disks writes to a SSD after doing a secure erase to measure/see how long it takes before the performance stabilizes. Give or take after about 48 hours I see this on the screen. B2-058:~/longtermruntime # ./fio.64bit.static longtermruntime-192h.fio seqwrite-phase: (g=0): rw=write, bs=512K-512K/512K-512K/512K-512K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=16 fio-2.1.2-15-gd5603 Starting 1 process fio: pid=6895, got signal=11ne] [0KB/0KB/0KB /s] [0/0/0 iops] [eta 06d:07h:05m:31s] seqwrite-phase: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=6895: Sun Sep 29 03:40:38 2013 lat (usec) : 1000=0.01% lat (msec) : 2=0.01%, 4=0.01%, 10=0.01%, 20=0.01%, 50=99.15% lat (msec) : 100=0.56%, 250=0.28%, 500=0.01%, 750=0.01% cpu : usr=0.00%, sys=0.00%, ctx=0, majf=0, minf=0 IO depths : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=100.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.1%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued : total=r=0/w=67108865/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0 Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=0KB, aggrb=0KB/s, minb=0KB/s, maxb=0KB/s, mint=144006511329msec, maxt=144006511329msec Disk stats (read/write): sdb: ios=0/67108865, merge=0/0, ticks=0/2354077568, in_queue=2353971492, util=100.00% fio: file hash not empty on exit I took a look at one of the core files B2-057:~/longtermruntime # gdb core core GNU gdb (GDB) SUSE (7.0-0.4.16) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... "/root/longtermruntime/core": not in executable format: File format not recognized Missing separate debuginfo for the main executable file Try: zypper install -C "debuginfo(build-id)=559375f8a046f376897b4923007bff5b07ecd8d4" Core was generated by `./fio.64bit.static longtermruntime-216h.fio'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x000000000040a6c9 in ?? () Is there anything else that I can do prior to help pull out more debug using gdb prior to restarting/retasking this systems? My gdb skills arent that great. Systems are running SLES 11 SP1 using a static compiled version of fio (fio-2.1.2-15-gd5603) Job file looks similar to this. ; writes 512k verification blocks until the disk is full, [global] bs=512k direct=1 ioengine=libaio iodepth=16 filename=/dev/sdb ; or use a full disk, for example /dev/sda runtime=216h time_based [seqwrite-phase] stonewall rw=write fill_device=1 write_bw_log=sdc-iodepth16-seqwrite-bs512k-216h write_lat_log=sdc-iodepth16-seqwrite-bs512k-216h write_iops_log=sdc-iodepth16-seqwrite-bs512k-216h Thanks, Roger -- 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