Hi Sitsofe, Your idea did work!! Thanks, Prabhu On 22 November 2017 at 16:45, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ -- Thanks, Prabhakaran -- 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