Re: rand-read: increasing iodepth makes throughput drop

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On 11/7/18 4:38 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 11:09, Federico Motta <federico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/31/18 6:31 PM, Jeff Furlong wrote:
>>>> Is it normal that the sum of these percentages is not 100 but it is around 133?
>>> Looks like you're running fio 3.9.  There was a recent patch, after the 3.11 release, to resolve.  Try the latest from git.
>>>
>> Thank you, the script I wrote to keep my fio updated to the latest
>> git-tag was missing a "--version-sort" :(
>>
>> With fio-3.12 the sum is 100 as expected.
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/18 3:19 PM, Federico Motta wrote:
>> ...
>>> Is it possible to ask fio a measure of "how much device internal
>> queues are filled"?
>>> If yes, with which option(s)?
>>> If not, do you know some other tools or procedures which can tell us that?
>>
>> Does somebody has ideas about that ^  ?
> 
> I think fio will report something similar back on Linux when it is
> able to work it out - see the "And finally, the disk statistics are
> printed" section over in
> https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html#interpreting-the-output
> . The util percentage might be as good as it gets (i.e. a device that
> can take more I/Os will have a low percentage). I think iostat
> produces similar output to that too...
> 

Actually I was wondering if a more direct or low level measure exists,
but since I don't even know if that is possible I think the fio "util"
percentage could be a good trade-off between "a low level measure" and
"no measure available".

Thank you :)
Have a nice day,
Federico

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