On 23 January 2017 at 18:33, Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > libaio is nowhere near what I get with engine=sync and high job counts. Mmh. > Plus the strange behavior. Have you tried batching the IOs and controlling how much are you reaping at any one time? See http://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html#cmdoption-arg-iodepth_batch_submit for some of the options for controlling this... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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