So you want to run them all with one jobfile, but sequentially and not simultaneously? In that case, stonewall is the option you want to add. Daniel On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:02 PM, john gong <johngong0791@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello Kulkarni & Alireza, > > Thanks for your attentions. > tiobench-example.fio will spawn 16 processes, each job consumes 4 processes. > But what i want is all things defined in the job description be done > in one process. > For example, executes below job description > --cut-- > [global] > engine=sync > filename=/data/test > size=100m > [job1] > rw=write > stonewall > [job2] > rw=read > stonewall > [job3] > rw=randwrite > stonewall > [job4] > rw=randread > stonewall > --cut-- > > This job description can satisfy the demand of sequential execute, but > they will be done in 4 different processes. > What i want is all things be done in the same process sequentilly. > > B.R. > > John.Gong > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Kulkarni, Vasu <vasu.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Here's one example with 4 jobs which you can customize >> https://github.com/axboe/fio/blob/master/examples/tiobench-example.fio >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:55 PM, john gong <johngong0791@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> hello All, >>> >>> I wonder whether FIO can do below things in the same job? >>> 1) sequential write >>> 2) sequential read >>> 3) randomly write >>> 4) randomly read >>> >>> Namely FIO do not need to spawn other processes to do the things respectively. >>> All things will be done in the same process. >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> John.Gong >>> -- >>> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> A ship is safer in a harbor. But that's not what ships are built for. > -- > 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 -- 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