Hi Jens, I am seeing a strange problem. I have a 47KB Blkparsed binary file and I tried replaying it with and without the "replay_no_stall" option. With the "replay_no_stall" option, I am seeing some IOPS happening.Please see below. WITH "REPLAY_NO_STALL=1" ===================================================== job9: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 fio-2.1.7 Starting 1 process Jobs: 1 (f=2): [M] [-.-% done] [1064KB/72KB/0KB /s] [266/18/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s] job9: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=34226: Thu Apr 10 12:00:54 2014 read : io=3792.0KB, bw=1126.3KB/s, iops=281, runt= 3367msec clat (usec): min=88, max=8536, avg=3546.19, stdev=1469.46 lat (usec): min=88, max=8536, avg=3546.35, stdev=1469.47 ===================================================== However, when I don't set the "REPLAY_NO_STALL" option, I see 0 IOPS.Please see below job9: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 fio-2.1.7 Starting 1 process job9: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=33979: Thu Apr 10 10:39:42 2014 read : io=3792.0KB, bw=2004B/s, iops=0, runt=1937594msec clat (usec): min=87, max=14320, avg=4763.37, stdev=2001.45 lat (usec): min=87, max=14320, avg=4763.52, stdev=2001.50 =========================================================== My starting time in the blkparsed binary file is 26.040173218 seconds and last time is 26.150699031. Attached is the binary file I am using to replay. I understand replay_no_stall option doesnt respect the timestamps, but without this option the job should be executing with the delays, and not sure why no OPS are reported. Any idea what is causing this strange behavior?Please help. Thanks, Lakshmi
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