On 2022/01/27 8:08, Nick Neumann wrote: > Is there a clean way to create a fio job that just waits for a fixed > time period? I'm fairly new to fio, and want a delay between two > consecutive jobs. I use "wait_for" to serialize as needed, and > expected "startdelay" to allow me to put the desired delay between the > two. But it looks like the startdelay for a job begins when fio starts > and not when the job referenced in a "wait_for" finishes. The job that needs to be started after a delay should have both wait_for and startdelay options. That should work. > > I can play games with a job with a very low bandwidth limit (e.g. > 1B/s) and "runtime" and "time_based", but it feels hacky. > > Am I thinking about how to get a delay between two jobs wrong? Is > there a better way? I realize I could just run fio multiple times with > command line delays between the runs, but I'd like the results of the > runs to share the same time basis and output/log files. > > Thanks, > Nick -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
