Hello Fio team, Just some information. Fio is always stuck several hours later. It takes a lot of cpu (62 % of the server) but do nothing concerning IO against hdisk and hba card. If you need more information don't hesitate to ask. Below output from topas and gdb: Topas: -------------------------------------------- Topas Monitor for host: XVIOS16 Tue Dec 29 15:00:31 2015 Interval: 2 CPU User% Kern% Wait% Idle% Physc Entc ALL 60.1 3.0 0.0 36.8 1.01 101.3 Network KBPS I-Pack O-Pack KB-In KB-Out Total 3.6 63.0 2.5 3.3 0.2 EVENTS/QUEUES FILE/TTY Cswitch 722 Readch 2386 Syscall 22916 Writech 386 Reads 10 Rawin 0 Writes 3 Ttyout 272 Forks 0 Igets 0 Execs 0 Namei 212 Runqueue 1.0 Dirblk 0 Waitqueue 0.0 MEMORY PAGING Real,MB 16384 Faults 40 % Comp 18 Steals 0 % Noncomp 50 PgspIn 0 % Client 50 PgspOut 0 PageIn 0 PAGING SPACE PageOut 0 Size,MB 512 Sios 0 % Used 4 % Free 96 Disk Busy% KBPS TPS KB-Read KB-Writ hdisk3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 hdisk7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 NFS (calls/sec) SerV2 0 WPAR Activ 0 CliV2 0 WPAR Total 0 SerV3 0 Press: "h"-help CliV3 0 "q"-quit SerV4 0 CliV4 0 FileSystem KBPS TPS KB-Read KB-Writ Total 2.3 9.5 2.3 0.0 Name PID CPU% PgSp Owner fio 11468956 62.6 4.3 root sched 196614 0.0 0.4 root vio_daem 10682558 0.0 46.1 root seaproc 3997822 0.0 1.0 root java 9764964 0.0 84.1 root syncd 3538998 0.0 0.6 root getty 9830486 0.0 0.7 root sshd 9306218 0.0 1.2 padmin solid 7995450 0.0 40.0 root gil 2555982 0.0 0.9 root posix_ai 53411958 0.0 0.4 root posix_ai 19529906 0.0 0.4 root posix_ai 58982424 0.0 0.4 root fio 3015098 0.0 2.7 root posix_ai 64946350 0.0 0.4 root posix_ai 39976972 0.0 0.4 root topas 1180092 0.0 8.7 root posix_ai 57737462 0.0 0.4 root posix_ai 27787362 0.0 0.4 root posix_ai 44302422 0.0 0.4 root gdb output: ----------------------------- # ps -ef | grep fio root 11468956 39518300 120 02:47:26 pts/1 468:59 /home/padmin/fio/fio-2c2c93d/fio myfio.fio root 44105746 11206870 0 15:23:58 pts/0 0:00 grep fio root 3015098 11141224 0 03:24:48 pts/0 0:28 fio myfio.fio # gdb /home/padmin/fio/fio-2c2c93d/fio 3015098 GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8.1 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from /home/padmin/fio/fio-2c2c93d/fio...done. Attaching to program: /home/padmin/fio/fio-2c2c93d/fio, process 3015098 [New Thread 1] [New Thread 258] [Switching to Thread 258] 0xd051d470 in _p_nsleep () from /usr/lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o) (gdb) bt #0 0xd051d470 in _p_nsleep () from /usr/lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o) #1 0xd011f3e8 in nsleep () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o) #2 0xd011ee38 in usleep () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o) #3 0x10001110 in fio_set_fd_nonblocking (fd=805309560, who=0x0) at libfio.c:285 #4 0xd0505c10 in _pthread_body () from /usr/lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o) #5 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) Regards, Thierry-- 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