Hi Jens, Sorry my update lacked precision. I want to tell that the output of my command is not correct because the IO profile is the same at 70% randread and 30%randwrite (graph from SAN tools). I don't want to tell that the Andrey explanation is wrong. I tried this but it seems the problem is that i don't understand the documentation so it's why i don't have that i expect. # cat test.conf [global] ioengine=posixaio invalidate=0 norandommap ramp_time=5 iodepth=8 runtime=60 time_based direct=1 numjobs=1 group_reporting filesize=103M blocksize=8k #rw=randrw rwmixread=70 percentage_random=12,8 [hdisk2] stonewall filename=/dev/rhdisk2 # ./fio test.conf hdisk2: (g=0): rw=read, bs=8K-8K/8K-8K/8K-8K, ioengine=posixaio, iodepth=8 fio-2.3 Starting 1 process Jobs: 1 (f=1): [R(1)] [100.0% done] [217.2MB/0KB/0KB /s] [27.8K/0/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s] hdisk2: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=213240: Fri Mar 25 07:27:47 2016 read : io=12872MB, bw=219671KB/s, iops=27458, runt= 60001msec slat (usec): min=14, max=9705, avg=28.74, stdev=34.99 clat (usec): min=2, max=10363, avg=221.22, stdev=48.30 lat (usec): min=144, max=10382, avg=249.52, stdev=50.07 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 149], 5.00th=[ 165], 10.00th=[ 175], 20.00th=[ 189], | 30.00th=[ 201], 40.00th=[ 211], 50.00th=[ 221], 60.00th=[ 231], | 70.00th=[ 241], 80.00th=[ 251], 90.00th=[ 266], 95.00th=[ 282], | 99.00th=[ 310], 99.50th=[ 326], 99.90th=[ 362], 99.95th=[ 386], | 99.99th=[ 466] bw (KB /s): min= 4, max=225344, per=99.17%, avg=217851.37, stdev=20237.94 lat (usec) : 4=0.01%, 10=0.01%, 50=0.01%, 100=0.01%, 250=78.56% lat (usec) : 500=21.42%, 750=0.01%, 1000=0.01% lat (msec) : 4=0.01%, 10=0.01%, 20=0.01% cpu : usr=8.22%, sys=28.38%, ctx=0, majf=0, minf=0 IO depths : 1=0.1%, 2=0.2%, 4=68.4%, 8=37.6%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=99.5%, 8=0.5%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued : total=r=1647553/w=0/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0 latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=8 Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: io=12872MB, aggrb=219671KB/s, minb=219671KB/s, maxb=219671KB/s, mint=60001msec, maxt=60001msec # 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