Hi, Try setting a large io_size (e.g. 1p) or a large number of loops alongside. See http://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html#cmdoption-arg-io-size and http://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html#cmdoption-arg-loops for documentation of those options. On 22 November 2017 at 23:35, Prabhakaran <prabhugce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I wanted to generate ~1 billion IOs irrespective of runtime/size. I > think with your example, fio would break, if it reaches 'number_ios', > before it comes to end of first fill. With my example shown below, fio > exits after reaching size=100%, which I have not specified in my job > file. -- 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