8 5. Detailed list of parameters
13 1.0 Overview and history
14 ------------------------
15 fio was originally written to save me the hassle of writing special test
16 case programs when I wanted to test a specific workload, either for
17 performance reasons or to find/reproduce a bug. The process of writing
18 such a test app can be tiresome, especially if you have to do it often.
19 Hence I needed a tool that would be able to simulate a given io workload
20 without resorting to writing a tailored test case again and again.
22 A test work load is difficult to define, though. There can be any number
23 of processes or threads involved, and they can each be using their own
24 way of generating io. You could have someone dirtying large amounts of
25 memory in an memory mapped file, or maybe several threads issuing
26 reads using asynchronous io. fio needed to be flexible enough to
27 simulate both of these cases, and many more.
31 The first step in getting fio to simulate a desired io workload, is
32 writing a job file describing that specific setup. A job file may contain
33 any number of threads and/or files - the typical contents of the job file
34 is a global section defining shared parameters, and one or more job
35 sections describing the jobs involved. When run, fio parses this file
36 and sets everything up as described. If we break down a job from top to
37 bottom, it contains the following basic parameters:
39 IO type Defines the io pattern issued to the file(s).
40 We may only be reading sequentially from this
41 file(s), or we may be writing randomly. Or even
42 mixing reads and writes, sequentially or randomly.
44 Block size In how large chunks are we issuing io? This may be
45 a single value, or it may describe a range of
48 IO size How much data are we going to be reading/writing.
50 IO engine How do we issue io? We could be memory mapping the
51 file, we could be using regular read/write, we
52 could be using splice, async io, syslet, or even
55 IO depth If the io engine is async, how large a queuing
56 depth do we want to maintain?
58 IO type Should we be doing buffered io, or direct/raw io?
60 Num files How many files are we spreading the workload over.
62 Num threads How many threads or processes should we spread
65 The above are the basic parameters defined for a workload, in addition
66 there's a multitude of parameters that modify other aspects of how this
72 See the README file for command line parameters, there are only a few
75 Running fio is normally the easiest part - you just give it the job file
76 (or job files) as parameters:
80 and it will start doing what the job_file tells it to do. You can give
81 more than one job file on the command line, fio will serialize the running
82 of those files. Internally that is the same as using the 'stonewall'
83 parameter described the the parameter section.
85 If the job file contains only one job, you may as well just give the
86 parameters on the command line. The command line parameters are identical
87 to the job parameters, with a few extra that control global parameters
88 (see README). For example, for the job file parameter iodepth=2, the
89 mirror command line option would be --iodepth 2 or --iodepth=2. You can
90 also use the command line for giving more than one job entry. For each
91 --name option that fio sees, it will start a new job with that name.
92 Command line entries following a --name entry will apply to that job,
93 until there are no more entries or a new --name entry is seen. This is
94 similar to the job file options, where each option applies to the current
95 job until a new [] job entry is seen.
97 fio does not need to run as root, except if the files or devices specified
98 in the job section requires that. Some other options may also be restricted,
99 such as memory locking, io scheduler switching, and decreasing the nice value.
104 As previously described, fio accepts one or more job files describing
105 what it is supposed to do. The job file format is the classic ini file,
106 where the names enclosed in [] brackets define the job name. You are free
107 to use any ascii name you want, except 'global' which has special meaning.
108 A global section sets defaults for the jobs described in that file. A job
109 may override a global section parameter, and a job file may even have
110 several global sections if so desired. A job is only affected by a global
111 section residing above it. If the first character in a line is a ';' or a
112 '#', the entire line is discarded as a comment.
114 So lets look at a really simple job file that define to threads, each
115 randomly reading from a 128MiB file.
117 ; -- start job file --
128 As you can see, the job file sections themselves are empty as all the
129 described parameters are shared. As no filename= option is given, fio
130 makes up a filename for each of the jobs as it sees fit. On the command
131 line, this job would look as follows:
133 $ fio --name=global --rw=randread --size=128m --name=job1 --name=job2
136 Lets look at an example that have a number of processes writing randomly
139 ; -- start job file --
151 Here we have no global section, as we only have one job defined anyway.
152 We want to use async io here, with a depth of 4 for each file. We also
153 increased the buffer size used to 32KiB and define numjobs to 4 to
154 fork 4 identical jobs. The result is 4 processes each randomly writing
155 to their own 64MiB file. Instead of using the above job file, you could
156 have given the parameters on the command line. For this case, you would
159 $ fio --name=random-writers --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --rw=randwrite --bs=32k --direct=0 --size=64m --numjobs=4
161 fio ships with a few example job files, you can also look there for
165 5.0 Detailed list of parameters
166 -------------------------------
168 This section describes in details each parameter associated with a job.
169 Some parameters take an option of a given type, such as an integer or
170 a string. The following types are used:
172 str String. This is a sequence of alpha characters.
173 int Integer. A whole number value, may be negative.
174 siint SI integer. A whole number value, which may contain a postfix
175 describing the base of the number. Accepted postfixes are k/m/g,
176 meaning kilo, mega, and giga. So if you want to specify 4096,
177 you could either write out '4096' or just give 4k. The postfixes
178 signify base 2 values, so 1024 is 1k and 1024k is 1m and so on.
179 If the option accepts an upper and lower range, use a colon ':'
180 or minus '-' to seperate such values. See irange.
181 bool Boolean. Usually parsed as an integer, however only defined for
182 true and false (1 and 0).
183 irange Integer range with postfix. Allows value range to be given, such
184 as 1024-4096. A colon may also be used as the seperator, eg
185 1k:4k. If the option allows two sets of ranges, they can be
186 specified with a ',' or '/' delimiter: 1k-4k/8k-32k. Also see
189 With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job
192 name=str ASCII name of the job. This may be used to override the
193 name printed by fio for this job. Otherwise the job
194 name is used. On the command line this parameter has the
195 special purpose of also signaling the start of a new
198 description=str Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except
199 dump this text description when this job is run. It's
202 directory=str Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to places files
203 in a different location than "./".
205 filename=str Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
206 thread number, and file number. If you want to share
207 files between threads in a job or several jobs, specify
208 a filename for each of them to override the default. If
209 the ioengine used is 'net', the filename is the host and
210 port to connect to in the format of =host/port. If the
211 ioengine is file based, you can specify a number of files
212 by seperating the names with a ':' colon. So if you wanted
213 a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as the two working files,
214 you would use filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb
216 opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this
217 directory and down the file system tree.
219 rw=str Type of io pattern. Accepted values are:
221 read Sequential reads
222 write Sequential writes
223 randwrite Random writes
224 randread Random reads
225 rw Sequential mixed reads and writes
226 randrw Random mixed reads and writes
228 For the mixed io types, the default is to split them 50/50.
229 For certain types of io the result may still be skewed a bit,
230 since the speed may be different.
232 randrepeat=bool For random IO workloads, seed the generator in a predictable
233 way so that results are repeatable across repetitions.
235 size=siint The total size of file io for this job. This may describe
236 the size of the single file the job uses, or it may be
237 divided between the number of files in the job. If the
238 file already exists, the file size will be adjusted to this
239 size if larger than the current file size. If this parameter
240 is not given and the file exists, the file size will be used.
242 filesize=siint Individual file sizes. May be a range, in which case fio
243 will select sizes for files at random within the given range
244 and limited to 'size' in total (if that is given). If not
245 given, each created file is the same size.
247 bs=siint The block size used for the io units. Defaults to 4k. Values
248 can be given for both read and writes. If a single siint is
249 given, it will apply to both. If a second siint is specified
250 after a comma, it will apply to writes only. In other words,
251 the format is either bs=read_and_write or bs=read,write.
252 bs=4k,8k will thus use 4k blocks for reads, and 8k blocks
253 for writes. If you only wish to set the write size, you
254 can do so by passing an empty read size - bs=,8k will set
255 8k for writes and leave the read default value.
257 bsrange=irange Instead of giving a single block size, specify a range
258 and fio will mix the issued io block sizes. The issued
259 io unit will always be a multiple of the minimum value
260 given (also see bs_unaligned). Applies to both reads and
261 writes, however a second range can be given after a comma.
264 bs_unaligned If this option is given, any byte size value within bsrange
265 may be used as a block range. This typically wont work with
266 direct IO, as that normally requires sector alignment.
268 nrfiles=int Number of files to use for this job. Defaults to 1.
270 openfiles=int Number of files to keep open at the same time. Defaults to
271 the same as nrfiles, can be set smaller to limit the number
274 file_service_type=str Defines how fio decides which file from a job to
275 service next. The following types are defined:
277 random Just choose a file at random.
279 roundrobin Round robin over open files. This
282 The string can have a number appended, indicating how
283 often to switch to a new file. So if option random:4 is
284 given, fio will switch to a new random file after 4 ios
287 ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
290 sync Basic read(2) or write(2) io. lseek(2) is
291 used to position the io location.
293 libaio Linux native asynchronous io.
295 posixaio glibc posix asynchronous io.
297 mmap File is memory mapped and data copied
298 to/from using memcpy(3).
300 splice splice(2) is used to transfer the data and
301 vmsplice(2) to transfer data from user
304 syslet-rw Use the syslet system calls to make
305 regular read/write async.
307 sg SCSI generic sg v3 io. May either be
308 synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if
309 the target is an sg character device
310 we use read(2) and write(2) for asynchronous
313 null Doesn't transfer any data, just pretends
314 to. This is mainly used to exercise fio
315 itself and for debugging/testing purposes.
317 net Transfer over the network to given host:port.
318 'filename' must be set appropriately to
319 filename=host/port regardless of send
320 or receive, if the latter only the port
323 cpu Doesn't transfer any data, but burns CPU
324 cycles according to the cpuload= and
325 cpucycle= options. Setting cpuload=85
326 will cause that job to do nothing but burn
329 external Prefix to specify loading an external
330 IO engine object file. Append the engine
331 filename, eg ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o
332 to load ioengine foo.o in /tmp.
334 iodepth=int This defines how many io units to keep in flight against
335 the file. The default is 1 for each file defined in this
336 job, can be overridden with a larger value for higher
339 iodepth_batch=int This defines how many pieces of IO to submit at once.
340 It defaults to the same as iodepth, but can be set lower
343 iodepth_low=int The low water mark indicating when to start filling
344 the queue again. Defaults to the same as iodepth, meaning
345 that fio will attempt to keep the queue full at all times.
346 If iodepth is set to eg 16 and iodepth_low is set to 4, then
347 after fio has filled the queue of 16 requests, it will let
348 the depth drain down to 4 before starting to fill it again.
350 direct=bool If value is true, use non-buffered io. This is usually
353 buffered=bool If value is true, use buffered io. This is the opposite
354 of the 'direct' option. Defaults to true.
356 offset=siint Start io at the given offset in the file. The data before
357 the given offset will not be touched. This effectively
358 caps the file size at real_size - offset.
360 fsync=int If writing to a file, issue a sync of the dirty data
361 for every number of blocks given. For example, if you give
362 32 as a parameter, fio will sync the file for every 32
363 writes issued. If fio is using non-buffered io, we may
364 not sync the file. The exception is the sg io engine, which
365 synchronizes the disk cache anyway.
367 overwrite=bool If writing to a file, setup the file first and do overwrites.
369 end_fsync=bool If true, fsync file contents when the job exits.
371 fsync_on_close=bool If true, fio will fsync() a dirty file on close.
372 This differs from end_fsync in that it will happen on every
373 file close, not just at the end of the job.
375 rwmixcycle=int Value in milliseconds describing how often to switch between
376 reads and writes for a mixed workload. The default is
379 rwmixread=int How large a percentage of the mix should be reads.
381 rwmixwrite=int How large a percentage of the mix should be writes. If both
382 rwmixread and rwmixwrite is given and the values do not add
383 up to 100%, the latter of the two will be used to override
386 norandommap Normally fio will cover every block of the file when doing
387 random IO. If this option is given, fio will just get a
388 new random offset without looking at past io history. This
389 means that some blocks may not be read or written, and that
390 some blocks may be read/written more than once. This option
391 is mutually exclusive with verify= for that reason.
393 nice=int Run the job with the given nice value. See man nice(2).
395 prio=int Set the io priority value of this job. Linux limits us to
396 a positive value between 0 and 7, with 0 being the highest.
399 prioclass=int Set the io priority class. See man ionice(1).
401 thinktime=int Stall the job x microseconds after an io has completed before
402 issuing the next. May be used to simulate processing being
403 done by an application. See thinktime_blocks and
407 Only valid if thinktime is set - pretend to spend CPU time
408 doing something with the data received, before falling back
409 to sleeping for the rest of the period specified by
413 Only valid if thinktime is set - control how many blocks
414 to issue, before waiting 'thinktime' usecs. If not set,
415 defaults to 1 which will make fio wait 'thinktime' usecs
418 rate=int Cap the bandwidth used by this job to this number of KiB/sec.
420 ratemin=int Tell fio to do whatever it can to maintain at least this
423 ratecycle=int Average bandwidth for 'rate' and 'ratemin' over this number
426 cpumask=int Set the CPU affinity of this job. The parameter given is a
427 bitmask of allowed CPU's the job may run on. See man
428 sched_setaffinity(2).
430 startdelay=int Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio
431 has started. Only useful if the job file contains several
432 jobs, and you want to delay starting some jobs to a certain
435 runtime=int Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified number
436 of seconds. It can be quite hard to determine for how long
437 a specified job will run, so this parameter is handy to
438 cap the total runtime to a given time.
440 invalidate=bool Invalidate the buffer/page cache parts for this file prior
441 to starting io. Defaults to true.
443 sync=bool Use sync io for buffered writes. For the majority of the
444 io engines, this means using O_SYNC.
446 mem=str Fio can use various types of memory as the io unit buffer.
447 The allowed values are:
449 malloc Use memory from malloc(3) as the buffers.
451 shm Use shared memory as the buffers. Allocated
454 shmhuge Same as shm, but use huge pages as backing.
456 mmap Use mmap to allocate buffers. May either be
457 anonymous memory, or can be file backed if
458 a filename is given after the option. The
459 format is mem=mmap:/path/to/file.
461 mmaphuge Use a memory mapped huge file as the buffer
462 backing. Append filename after mmaphuge, ala
463 mem=mmaphuge:/hugetlbfs/file
465 The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed
466 bs size for the job, multiplied by the io depth given. Note
467 that for shmhuge and mmaphuge to work, the system must have
468 free huge pages allocated. This can normally be checked
469 and set by reading/writing /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages on a
470 Linux system. Fio assumes a huge page is 4MiB in size. So
471 to calculate the number of huge pages you need for a given
472 job file, add up the io depth of all jobs (normally one unless
473 iodepth= is used) and multiply by the maximum bs set. Then
474 divide that number by the huge page size. You can see the
475 size of the huge pages in /proc/meminfo. If no huge pages
476 are allocated by having a non-zero number in nr_hugepages,
477 using mmaphuge or shmhuge will fail. Also see hugepage-size.
479 mmaphuge also needs to have hugetlbfs mounted and the file
480 location should point there. So if it's mounted in /huge,
481 you would use mem=mmaphuge:/huge/somefile.
484 Defines the size of a huge page. Must at least be equal
485 to the system setting, see /proc/meminfo. Defaults to 4MiB.
486 Should probably always be a multiple of megabytes, so using
487 hugepage-size=Xm is the preferred way to set this to avoid
488 setting a non-pow-2 bad value.
490 exitall When one job finishes, terminate the rest. The default is
491 to wait for each job to finish, sometimes that is not the
494 bwavgtime=int Average the calculated bandwidth over the given time. Value
495 is specified in milliseconds.
497 create_serialize=bool If true, serialize the file creating for the jobs.
498 This may be handy to avoid interleaving of data
499 files, which may greatly depend on the filesystem
500 used and even the number of processors in the system.
502 create_fsync=bool fsync the data file after creation. This is the
505 unlink=bool Unlink the job files when done. Not the default, as repeated
506 runs of that job would then waste time recreating the fileset
509 loops=int Run the specified number of iterations of this job. Used
510 to repeat the same workload a given number of times. Defaults
513 verify=str If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents
514 after each iteration of the job. The allowed values are:
516 md5 Use an md5 sum of the data area and store
517 it in the header of each block.
519 crc32 Use a crc32 sum of the data area and store
520 it in the header of each block.
522 This option can be used for repeated burn-in tests of a
523 system to make sure that the written data is also
526 stonewall Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
527 starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization
528 points in the job file.
530 numjobs=int Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be
531 used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing
532 the same thing. We regard that grouping of jobs as a
535 group_reporting If 'numjobs' is set, it may be interesting to display
536 statistics for the group as a whole instead of for each
537 individual job. This is especially true of 'numjobs' is
538 large, looking at individual thread/process output quickly
539 becomes unwieldy. If 'group_reporting' is specified, fio
540 will show the final report per-group instead of per-job.
542 thread fio defaults to forking jobs, however if this option is
543 given, fio will use pthread_create(3) to create threads
546 zonesize=siint Divide a file into zones of the specified size. See zoneskip.
548 zoneskip=siint Skip the specified number of bytes when zonesize data has
549 been read. The two zone options can be used to only do
550 io on zones of a file.
552 write_iolog=str Write the issued io patterns to the specified file. See
555 read_iolog=str Open an iolog with the specified file name and replay the
556 io patterns it contains. This can be used to store a
557 workload and replay it sometime later.
559 write_bw_log If given, write a bandwidth log of the jobs in this job
560 file. Can be used to store data of the bandwidth of the
561 jobs in their lifetime. The included fio_generate_plots
562 script uses gnuplot to turn these text files into nice
565 write_lat_log Same as write_bw_log, except that this option stores io
566 completion latencies instead.
568 lockmem=siint Pin down the specified amount of memory with mlock(2). Can
569 potentially be used instead of removing memory or booting
570 with less memory to simulate a smaller amount of memory.
572 exec_prerun=str Before running this job, issue the command specified
575 exec_postrun=str After the job completes, issue the command specified
578 ioscheduler=str Attempt to switch the device hosting the file to the specified
579 io scheduler before running.
581 cpuload=int If the job is a CPU cycle eater, attempt to use the specified
582 percentage of CPU cycles.
584 cpuchunks=int If the job is a CPU cycle eater, split the load into
585 cycles of the given time. In milliseconds.
588 6.0 Interpreting the output
589 ---------------------------
591 fio spits out a lot of output. While running, fio will display the
592 status of the jobs created. An example of that would be:
594 Threads: 1: [_r] [24.8% done] [ 13509/ 8334 kb/s] [eta 00h:01m:31s]
596 The characters inside the square brackets denote the current status of
597 each thread. The possible values (in typical life cycle order) are:
601 P Thread setup, but not started.
603 I Thread initialized, waiting.
604 R Running, doing sequential reads.
605 r Running, doing random reads.
606 W Running, doing sequential writes.
607 w Running, doing random writes.
608 M Running, doing mixed sequential reads/writes.
609 m Running, doing mixed random reads/writes.
610 F Running, currently waiting for fsync()
611 V Running, doing verification of written data.
612 E Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet.
615 The other values are fairly self explanatory - number of threads
616 currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check, and the estimated
617 completion percentage and time for the running group. It's impossible to
618 estimate runtime of the following groups (if any).
620 When fio is done (or interrupted by ctrl-c), it will show the data for
621 each thread, group of threads, and disks in that order. For each data
622 direction, the output looks like:
624 Client1 (g=0): err= 0:
625 write: io= 32MiB, bw= 666KiB/s, runt= 50320msec
626 slat (msec): min= 0, max= 136, avg= 0.03, stdev= 1.92
627 clat (msec): min= 0, max= 631, avg=48.50, stdev=86.82
628 bw (KiB/s) : min= 0, max= 1196, per=51.00%, avg=664.02, stdev=681.68
629 cpu : usr=1.49%, sys=0.25%, ctx=7969
630 IO depths : 1=0.1%, 2=0.3%, 4=0.5%, 8=99.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >32=0.0%
631 lat (msec): 2=1.6%, 4=0.0%, 10=3.2%, 20=12.8%, 50=38.4%, 100=24.8%,
632 lat (msec): 250=15.2%, 500=0.0%, 750=0.0%, 1000=0.0%, >=2048=0.0%
634 The client number is printed, along with the group id and error of that
635 thread. Below is the io statistics, here for writes. In the order listed,
638 io= Number of megabytes io performed
639 bw= Average bandwidth rate
640 runt= The runtime of that thread
641 slat= Submission latency (avg being the average, dev being the
642 standard deviation). This is the time it took to submit
643 the io. For sync io, the slat is really the completion
644 latency, since queue/complete is one operation there.
645 clat= Completion latency. Same names as slat, this denotes the
646 time from submission to completion of the io pieces. For
647 sync io, clat will usually be equal (or very close) to 0,
648 as the time from submit to complete is basically just
649 CPU time (io has already been done, see slat explanation).
650 bw= Bandwidth. Same names as the xlat stats, but also includes
651 an approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth
652 this thread received in this group. This last value is
653 only really useful if the threads in this group are on the
654 same disk, since they are then competing for disk access.
655 cpu= CPU usage. User and system time, along with the number
656 of context switches this thread went through.
657 IO depths= The distribution of io depths over the job life time. The
658 numbers are divided into powers of 2, so for example the
659 16= entries includes depths up to that value but higher
660 than the previous entry. In other words, it covers the
662 IO latencies= The distribution of IO completion latencies. This is the
663 time from when IO leaves fio and when it gets completed.
664 The numbers follow the same pattern as the IO depths,
665 meaning that 2=1.6% means that 1.6% of the IO completed
666 within 2 msecs, 20=12.8% means that 12.8% of the IO
667 took more than 10 msecs, but less than (or equal to) 20 msecs.
669 After each client has been listed, the group statistics are printed. They
672 Run status group 0 (all jobs):
673 READ: io=64MiB, aggrb=22178, minb=11355, maxb=11814, mint=2840msec, maxt=2955msec
674 WRITE: io=64MiB, aggrb=1302, minb=666, maxb=669, mint=50093msec, maxt=50320msec
676 For each data direction, it prints:
678 io= Number of megabytes io performed.
679 aggrb= Aggregate bandwidth of threads in this group.
680 minb= The minimum average bandwidth a thread saw.
681 maxb= The maximum average bandwidth a thread saw.
682 mint= The smallest runtime of the threads in that group.
683 maxt= The longest runtime of the threads in that group.
685 And finally, the disk statistics are printed. They will look like this:
687 Disk stats (read/write):
688 sda: ios=16398/16511, merge=30/162, ticks=6853/819634, in_queue=826487, util=100.00%
690 Each value is printed for both reads and writes, with reads first. The
693 ios= Number of ios performed by all groups.
694 merge= Number of merges io the io scheduler.
695 ticks= Number of ticks we kept the disk busy.
696 io_queue= Total time spent in the disk queue.
697 util= The disk utilization. A value of 100% means we kept the disk
698 busy constantly, 50% would be a disk idling half of the time.
704 For scripted usage where you typically want to generate tables or graphs
705 of the results, fio can output the results in a semicolon separated format.
706 The format is one long line of values, such as:
708 client1;0;0;1906777;1090804;1790;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;929380;1152890;25.510151%;1078276.333333;128948.113404;0;0;0;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;0.000000%;0.000000;0.000000;100.000000%;0.000000%;324;100.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;100.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%
709 ;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%
711 Split up, the format is as follows:
713 jobname, groupid, error
715 KiB IO, bandwidth (KiB/sec), runtime (msec)
716 Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation
717 Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation
718 Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
720 KiB IO, bandwidth (KiB/sec), runtime (msec)
721 Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation
722 Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation
723 Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
724 CPU usage: user, system, context switches
725 IO depths: <=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, >=64
726 IO latencies: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, >=2000