hi Daniel, Thanks for your suggestion. "stonewall" can not solve my problem. "stonewall" just enforce the processes which do the exact jobs run sequentially. But what I want to do is that all things be done in one process, not with one jobfile. B.R. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM, danielabuggie . <danielabuggie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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