From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:23:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update smalloc section in README X-Git-Tag: fio-1.25~13 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=931823caa6ae382c7c5ff6e02726c4297a4c0ad7;p=fio.git Update smalloc section in README Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/README b/README index 7a49dda5..480f1d0e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -141,9 +141,11 @@ always parsed and taken into account. Fio has an internal allocator for shared memory called smalloc. It allocates shared structures from this pool. The pool defaults to 1024k -in size, and can grow to 32 pools. If running large jobs with randommap +in size, and can grow to 128 pools. If running large jobs with randommap enabled it can run out of memory, in which case the --alloc-size switch -is handy for starting with a larger pool size. +is handy for starting with a larger pool size. The backing store is +files in /tmp. Fio cleans up after itself, while it is running you +may see .fio_smalloc.* files in /tmp. Job file