On 30 September 2014 14:07, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If all you're trying to do is run a limited random job as quickly as > possible you may find there are simpler fio jobs that will get higher > throughput... Perhaps something like the following (this would be the entire file): [4K Precon] name=4ktest filename=\\.\physicaldrive1 ioengine=windowsaio direct=1 time_based runtime=18000 size=86% bs=4k offset=4k norandommap gtod_reduce=1 iodepth=256 thread Again it's not the same as your vdbench workload but does it show a different speed to your previous fio job? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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