> From: fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of QB > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 7:49 AM > To: fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, just a stupid question.. > what is the difference with the following 2 options: > 1. starting 2 FIO instances with the same parameter settings > 2. starting 1 FIO instances with numjobs=2.. At the basic level, fio's control process spawns a separate data mover process for each job, so with numjobs=2 you have 1 control proc and two data procs v. 2 control and 2 data when invoked separately. z! -- 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