Hello, We are having issues running fio on more than 2 servers, it appears due to the message above size= We have this setup in the job files as follows: (size=41943040) fio --client=intel01 jobfile-w-intel1.cfg --client=intel04 jobfile-w-intel4.cfg --client=amd1 jobfile-w-amd1.cfg --client=amd2 jobfile-w-amd2.cfg --output=/root/fio/scripts/TestResults_nf1-and-4clients/RW_4KB_16NVMe_3rd-run.txt jobfile-w-intel1.cfg snapshot: [globals] ioengine=libaio name=io rw=randwrite bs=4KB ba=4KB iodepth=32 direct=1 numjobs=16 ramp_time=10 runtime=60 norandommap=1 group_reporting=1 fsync_on_close=0 time_based ioscheduler=noop size=41943040 blocksize=4M root@intel02 scripts]# fio -v fio-3.1 Is this setup correctly to run with fio ? Thanks, Abe On 2/4/19, 8:00 AM, "Jens Axboe" <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I can't help you as you have absolutely no details in your bug report. Please read: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__git.kernel.dk_cgit_fio_tree_REPORTING-2DBUGS&d=DwIDaQ&c=4DxX-JX0i28X6V65hK0ftwVK1xnmwcYC0vo7GVya1JY&r=JTvxP5UxzWQU99KaCM5W_PZ4MaSyV9w7ejbX5JzCXAk&m=oBxRppw1VK930hBgBrR1UBPeyZfrlRcOzawGecyVvBY&s=kUgJC-nudmDckEKzXaziPkEabnRFno03sHius_V-31o&e= On 2/3/19 7:05 PM, Abe Asraoui wrote: > > > Hello need help with this error, > > > > I’m not able to run jobs on the 3^rd server, which I think the error above is the root cause. > > I setup the size to 100 and this does not help .. > > > > > > <intel04> ... > > <intel04> Starting 256 processes > > <intel04> job: you need to specify size= > > <intel04> fio: pid=0, err=22/file:filesetup.c:961, func=total_file_size, error=Invalid argument > > <intel04> job: you need to specify size= > > <intel04> fio: pid=0, err=22/file:filesetup.c:961, func=total_file_size, error=Invalid argument > > <intel04> job: you need to specify size= > > <intel04> fio: pid=0, err=22/file:filesetup.c:961, func=total_file_size, error=Invalid argument > > <intel04> job: you need to specify size= > > > > > > Thanks, > > Abe > > > -- Jens Axboe