On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > Why are you setting {read,write}_promote_adjustment to 1? I asked you > to set write_promote_adjustment to 0. I didn't realize there would be (much) difference. However I will certainly try it with write_promote_adjustment == 0. > Your random fio job won't hit the same blocks, and md5sum likely uses > buffered IO so unless you set 0 for both the cache won't aggressively > cache like you're expecting. Right, that was definitely a mistake! I will drop_caches between each md5sum operation. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/