Hey, I'm trying to get predictable output from --status-interval. I believe there's some output racing going on and can't think of a way of working around it at this point. Is there a way to redirect --status-interval to a separate file and have the summary go to --output? That would be useful. Anyhow. Attached is a --side-by-side diff by a custom --minimal parser, this is the command line used: fio --minimal --direct=1 --group_reporting --filesize=100m --norandommap --blocksize=32k --time_based --iodepth=1 --ramp_time=0 --ioengine=libaio --status-interval=5 --percentage_random=100 --name=randrw-workload --rw=randrw --rwmixread=0 --numjobs=2 --filename=/fut1/rs-dev2_2:/fut2/rs-dev2_2 --runtime=60 --output fio_w.dat What happens is that intermittently I get a <1s splurge on the last line which is suppose to be final output but it screws up the summary fields, more explictly: Bandwidth KB IOPS Runtime (ms) Sometime it happens with this workload but it happens more infrequently: fio --minimal --direct=1 --group_reporting --filesize=100m --norandommap --blocksize=32k --time_based --iodepth=1 --ramp_time=0 --ioengine=libaio --status-interval=5 --percentage_random=100 --name=rainscaler-randrw --rw=randrw --rwmixread=100 --numjobs=2 --filename=/fut1/rs-dev2_1:/fut2/rs-dev2_1 --runtime=60 --output fio_r.dat What is good to know here is that both these run in parallel as two independent fio jobs on the same host if there is some communication between fio processes that are run independently on the same host that promotes this behavior. I can't use /tmp/fio-dump-status as there will be a race between master processes who unlink the file first. fio-2.1.4 and fio-2.1.13 on CentOS 6.5. Thanks! Michael PS. The other --status-interval issue I've reported a few months back I haven't got to as that have only occurred on my "production" rig and this is just my dev environment.
[admin@rsm-dev1 ~]$ diff --side-by-side 1 2 Overview Overview 1:3:terse version 1:3:terse version 2:fio-2.1.4:fio version 2:fio-2.1.4:fio version 3:rainscaler-randrw:name 3:rainscaler-randrw:name 4:0:group id 4:0:group id 5:0:error 5:0:error Read Status Read Status 6:0:Total I/O KB 6:0:Total I/O KB 7:0:Bandwidth KB 7:0:Bandwidth KB 8:0:IOPS 8:0:IOPS 9:0:Runtime (ms) 9:0:Runtime (ms) Submission latency Submission latency 10:0:min 10:0:min 11:0:max 11:0:max 12:0.000000:mean 12:0.000000:mean 13:0.000000:stdev 13:0.000000:stdev Completion latency Completion latency 14:0:min 14:0:min 15:0:max 15:0:max 16:0.000000:mean 16:0.000000:mean 17:0.000000:stdev 17:0.000000:stdev Completion latency percentiles (20 fields) Completion latency percentiles (20 fields) 18:1.000000%=0: 18:1.000000%=0: 19:5.000000%=0: 19:5.000000%=0: 20:10.000000%=0: 20:10.000000%=0: 21:20.000000%=0: 21:20.000000%=0: 22:30.000000%=0: 22:30.000000%=0: 23:40.000000%=0: 23:40.000000%=0: 24:50.000000%=0: 24:50.000000%=0: 25:60.000000%=0: 25:60.000000%=0: 26:70.000000%=0: 26:70.000000%=0: 27:80.000000%=0: 27:80.000000%=0: 28:90.000000%=0: 28:90.000000%=0: 29:95.000000%=0: 29:95.000000%=0: 30:99.000000%=0: 30:99.000000%=0: 31:99.500000%=0: 31:99.500000%=0: 32:99.900000%=0: 32:99.900000%=0: 33:99.950000%=0: 33:99.950000%=0: 34:99.990000%=0: 34:99.990000%=0: 35:0%=0: 35:0%=0: 36:0%=0: 36:0%=0: 37:0%=0: 37:0%=0: Total latency Total latency 38:0:min 38:0:min 39:0:max 39:0:max 40:0.000000:mean 40:0.000000:mean 41:0.000000:stdev 41:0.000000:stdev Bandwidth Bandwidth 42:0:min 42:0:min 43:0:max 43:0:max 44:0.000000%:aggregate % of total 44:0.000000%:aggregate % of total 45:0.000000:mean 45:0.000000:mean 46:0.000000:stdev 46:0.000000:stdev Write status Write status 47:313248:Total IO KB 47:313248:Total IO KB 48:5161:Bandwidth KB | 48:435671:Bandwidth KB 49:161:IOPS | 49:13614:IOPS 50:60693:runtime (ms) | 50:719:runtime (ms) Submission latency Submission latency 51:0:min 51:0:min 52:2637:max 52:2637:max 53:25.125549:mean 53:25.125549:mean 54:101.861732:stdev 54:101.861732:stdev Completion latency Completion latency 55:3792:min 55:3792:min 56:1168992:max 56:1168992:max 57:12352.673613:mean 57:12352.673613:mean 58:27804.289485:stdev 58:27804.289485:stdev Completion latency percentiles (20 fields) Completion latency percentiles (20 fields) 59:1.000000%=5472: 59:1.000000%=5472: 60:5.000000%=6368: 60:5.000000%=6368: 61:10.000000%=7136: 61:10.000000%=7136: 62:20.000000%=8256: 62:20.000000%=8256: 63:30.000000%=8640: 63:30.000000%=8640: 64:40.000000%=9024: 64:40.000000%=9024: 65:50.000000%=9408: 65:50.000000%=9408: 66:60.000000%=9920: 66:60.000000%=9920: 67:70.000000%=10688: 67:70.000000%=10688: 68:80.000000%=11712: 68:80.000000%=11712: 69:90.000000%=13760: 69:90.000000%=13760: 70:95.000000%=16320: 70:95.000000%=16320: 71:99.000000%=64256: 71:99.000000%=64256: 72:99.500000%=130560: 72:99.500000%=130560: 73:99.900000%=428032: 73:99.900000%=428032: 74:99.950000%=468992: 74:99.950000%=468992: 75:99.990000%=1171456: 75:99.990000%=1171456: 76:0%=0: 76:0%=0: 77:0%=0: 77:0%=0: 78:0%=0: 78:0%=0: Total latency Total latency 79:3798:min 79:3798:min 80:1169002:max 80:1169002:max 81:12378.944019:mean 81:12378.944019:mean 82:27805.729411:stdev 82:27805.729411:stdev Bandwidth Bandwidth 83:183:min 83:183:min 84:3583:max 84:3583:max 85:51.432252%:aggreate % of total | 85:0.609271%:aggreate % of total 86:2654.418502:mean 86:2654.418502:mean 87:901.038597:stdev 87:901.038597:stdev CPU Usage CPU Usage 88:0.023915%:user 88:0.023915%:user 89:0.396659%:system 89:0.396659%:system 90:9808:ctx switches 90:9808:ctx switches 91:0:major pf 91:0:major pf 92:54:minor pf 92:54:minor pf IO depth dist IO depth dist 93:100.0%:<=1 93:100.0%:<=1 94:0.0%:2 94:0.0%:2 95:0.0%:4 95:0.0%:4 96:0.0%:8 96:0.0%:8 97:0.0%:16 97:0.0%:16 98:0.0%:32 98:0.0%:32 99:0.0%:>=64 99:0.0%:>=64 IO latency dist (microseconds) IO latency dist (microseconds) 100:0.00%:<=2 100:0.00%:<=2 101:0.00%:4 101:0.00%:4 102:0.00%:10 102:0.00%:10 103:0.00%:20 103:0.00%:20 104:0.00%:50 104:0.00%:50 105:0.00%:100 105:0.00%:100 106:0.00%:250 106:0.00%:250 107:0.00%:500 107:0.00%:500 108:0.00%:750 108:0.00%:750 109:0.00%:1000 109:0.00%:1000 IO latency dist (ms) IO latency dist (ms) 110:0.00%:<=2 110:0.00%:<=2 111:0.01%:4 111:0.01%:4 112:61.71%:10 112:61.71%:10 113:35.08%:20 113:35.08%:20 114:1.73%:50 114:1.73%:50 115:0.81%:100 115:0.81%:100 116:0.40%:250 116:0.40%:250 117:0.25%:500 117:0.25%:500 118:0.00%:750 118:0.00%:750 119:0.00%:1000 119:0.00%:1000 120:0.02%:2000 120:0.02%:2000 121:0.00%:>=2000 121:0.00%:>=2000
