From 931823caa6ae382c7c5ff6e02726c4297a4c0ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:23:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update smalloc section in README Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- README | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.25.1