HI I joined the mailing list yesterday. I am reposting the below query as I don't see my yesterday's post in the mailing list archive. I am using fio-2.2.10 on Ubuntu 16.04. In one of my setup I am observing high value of read iops at io-depth = 1. One run is reporting iops=11418, another run iops=33507 and iops=44329This does not seem to be correct. Below are the run results. Can someone let me know what is going wrong and if I am hitting some known issue in fio. RUN 1 ubuntu@vrni-proxy-release:/var/log/foundationdb$ suf=`head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 13 ; echo ''` && file="/var/lib/ubuntu/fio-$suf" && echo $file && fio --filename=$file --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=4K --name=bw-test --rw=randread --iodepth=1 --size=200M ; rm -f $file /var/lib/ubuntu/fio-oPHRC8lfJujNk bw-test: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 fio-2.2.10 Starting 1 process bw-test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 200MB) Jobs: 1 (f=1): [r(1)] [100.0% done] [49132KB/0KB/0KB /s] [12.3K/0/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s] bw-test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=48549: Fri May 15 18:42:08 2020 read : io=204800KB, bw=45674KB/s, iops=11418, runt= 4484msec slat (usec): min=4, max=258, avg= 5.53, stdev= 2.20 clat (usec): min=0, max=22304, avg=81.16, stdev=230.44 lat (usec): min=17, max=22309, avg=86.78, stdev=230.46 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 14], 5.00th=[ 14], 10.00th=[ 15], 20.00th=[ 16], | 30.00th=[ 19], 40.00th=[ 19], 50.00th=[ 20], 60.00th=[ 20], | 70.00th=[ 21], 80.00th=[ 25], 90.00th=[ 266], 95.00th=[ 286], | 99.00th=[ 532], 99.50th=[ 1400], 99.90th=[ 2832], 99.95th=[ 3088], | 99.99th=[ 5280] bw (KB /s): min=33760, max=51584, per=98.18%, avg=44842.00, stdev=6783.12 lat (usec) : 2=0.04%, 4=0.01%, 10=0.02%, 20=45.62%, 50=35.21% lat (usec) : 100=0.15%, 250=2.24%, 500=15.67%, 750=0.25%, 1000=0.16% lat (msec) : 2=0.28%, 4=0.34%, 10=0.01%, 50=0.01% cpu : usr=0.98%, sys=10.53%, ctx=51195, majf=0, minf=10 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued : total=r=51200/w=0/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0 latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1 Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: io=204800KB, aggrb=45673KB/s, minb=45673KB/s, maxb=45673KB/s, mint=4484msec, maxt=4484msec Disk stats (read/write): dm-6: ios=48310/2, merge=0/0, ticks=3944/0, in_queue=3972, util=90.95%, aggrios=51200/40, aggrmerge=0/205, aggrticks=4048/0, aggrin_queue=4048, aggrutil=87.75% sda: ios=51200/40, merge=0/205, ticks=4048/0, in_queue=4048, util=87.75% RUN 2 ubuntu@vrni-proxy-release:/var/log/foundationdb$ suf=`head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 13 ; echo ''` && file="/var/lib/ubuntu/fio-$suf" && echo $file && fio --filename=$file --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=4K --name=bw-test --rw=randread --iodepth=1 --size=200M ; rm -f $file /var/lib/ubuntu/fio-PipAwOU94ybHL bw-test: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 fio-2.2.10 Starting 1 process bw-test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 200MB) Jobs: 1 (f=1) bw-test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=48575: Fri May 15 18:42:15 2020 read : io=204800KB, bw=134031KB/s, iops=33507, runt= 1528msec slat (usec): min=4, max=19840, avg= 5.38, stdev=87.66 clat (usec): min=1, max=3589, avg=23.64, stdev=89.84 lat (usec): min=17, max=19863, avg=29.07, stdev=125.52 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 14], 5.00th=[ 15], 10.00th=[ 15], 20.00th=[ 15], | 30.00th=[ 15], 40.00th=[ 15], 50.00th=[ 16], 60.00th=[ 16], | 70.00th=[ 16], 80.00th=[ 16], 90.00th=[ 17], 95.00th=[ 17], | 99.00th=[ 286], 99.50th=[ 318], 99.90th=[ 1576], 99.95th=[ 2352], | 99.99th=[ 3056] bw (KB /s): min=119592, max=143792, per=99.48%, avg=133333.33, stdev=12429.48 lat (usec) : 2=0.01%, 10=0.01%, 20=97.54%, 50=0.47%, 100=0.09% lat (usec) : 250=0.05%, 500=1.61%, 750=0.06%, 1000=0.02% lat (msec) : 2=0.06%, 4=0.08% cpu : usr=1.83%, sys=31.17%, ctx=51196, majf=0, minf=11 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued : total=r=51200/w=0/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0 latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1 Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: io=204800KB, aggrb=134031KB/s, minb=134031KB/s, maxb=134031KB/s, mint=1528msec, maxt=1528msec Disk stats (read/write): dm-6: ios=43347/0, merge=0/0, ticks=1080/0, in_queue=1084, util=75.80%, aggrios=51200/10, aggrmerge=0/6, aggrticks=1048/0, aggrin_queue=1048, aggrutil=62.83% sda: ios=51200/10, merge=0/6, ticks=1048/0, in_queue=1048, util=62.83%