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1Table of contents
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41. Overview
52. How fio works
63. Running fio
74. Job file format
85. Detailed list of parameters
96. Normal output
107. Terse output
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131.0 Overview and history
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15fio was originally written to save me the hassle of writing special test
16case programs when I wanted to test a specific workload, either for
17performance reasons or to find/reproduce a bug. The process of writing
18such a test app can be tiresome, especially if you have to do it often.
19Hence I needed a tool that would be able to simulate a given io workload
20without resorting to writing a tailored test case again and again.
21
22A test work load is difficult to define, though. There can be any number
23of processes or threads involved, and they can each be using their own
24way of generating io. You could have someone dirtying large amounts of
25memory in an memory mapped file, or maybe several threads issuing
26reads using asynchronous io. fio needed to be flexible enough to
27simulate both of these cases, and many more.
28
292.0 How fio works
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31The first step in getting fio to simulate a desired io workload, is
32writing a job file describing that specific setup. A job file may contain
33any number of threads and/or files - the typical contents of the job file
34is a global section defining shared parameters, and one or more job
35sections describing the jobs involved. When run, fio parses this file
36and sets everything up as described. If we break down a job from top to
37bottom, it contains the following basic parameters:
38
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.
43
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
46 block sizes.
47
48 IO size How much data are we going to be reading/writing.
49
50 IO engine How do we issue io? We could be memory mapping the
51 file, we could be using regular read/write, we
d0ff85df 52 could be using splice, async io, syslet, or even
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53 SG (SCSI generic sg).
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6c219763 55 IO depth If the io engine is async, how large a queuing
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56 depth do we want to maintain?
57
58 IO type Should we be doing buffered io, or direct/raw io?
59
60 Num files How many files are we spreading the workload over.
61
62 Num threads How many threads or processes should we spread
63 this workload over.
64
65The above are the basic parameters defined for a workload, in addition
66there's a multitude of parameters that modify other aspects of how this
67job behaves.
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703.0 Running fio
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72See the README file for command line parameters, there are only a few
73of them.
74
75Running fio is normally the easiest part - you just give it the job file
76(or job files) as parameters:
77
78$ fio job_file
79
80and it will start doing what the job_file tells it to do. You can give
81more than one job file on the command line, fio will serialize the running
82of those files. Internally that is the same as using the 'stonewall'
83parameter described the the parameter section.
84
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85If the job file contains only one job, you may as well just give the
86parameters on the command line. The command line parameters are identical
87to the job parameters, with a few extra that control global parameters
88(see README). For example, for the job file parameter iodepth=2, the
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89mirror command line option would be --iodepth 2 or --iodepth=2. You can
90also 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.
92Command line entries following a --name entry will apply to that job,
93until there are no more entries or a new --name entry is seen. This is
94similar to the job file options, where each option applies to the current
95job until a new [] job entry is seen.
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97fio does not need to run as root, except if the files or devices specified
98in the job section requires that. Some other options may also be restricted,
6c219763 99such as memory locking, io scheduler switching, and decreasing the nice value.
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1024.0 Job file format
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104As previously described, fio accepts one or more job files describing
105what it is supposed to do. The job file format is the classic ini file,
106where the names enclosed in [] brackets define the job name. You are free
107to use any ascii name you want, except 'global' which has special meaning.
108A global section sets defaults for the jobs described in that file. A job
109may override a global section parameter, and a job file may even have
110several global sections if so desired. A job is only affected by a global
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111section residing above it. If the first character in a line is a ';' or a
112'#', the entire line is discarded as a comment.
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113
114So lets look at a really simple job file that define to threads, each
115randomly reading from a 128MiB file.
116
117; -- start job file --
118[global]
119rw=randread
120size=128m
121
122[job1]
123
124[job2]
125
126; -- end job file --
127
128As you can see, the job file sections themselves are empty as all the
129described parameters are shared. As no filename= option is given, fio
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130makes up a filename for each of the jobs as it sees fit. On the command
131line, this job would look as follows:
132
133$ fio --name=global --rw=randread --size=128m --name=job1 --name=job2
134
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136Lets look at an example that have a number of processes writing randomly
137to files.
138
139; -- start job file --
140[random-writers]
141ioengine=libaio
142iodepth=4
143rw=randwrite
144bs=32k
145direct=0
146size=64m
147numjobs=4
148
149; -- end job file --
150
151Here we have no global section, as we only have one job defined anyway.
152We want to use async io here, with a depth of 4 for each file. We also
153increased the buffer size used to 32KiB and define numjobs to 4 to
154fork 4 identical jobs. The result is 4 processes each randomly writing
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155to their own 64MiB file. Instead of using the above job file, you could
156have given the parameters on the command line. For this case, you would
157specify:
158
159$ fio --name=random-writers --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --rw=randwrite --bs=32k --direct=0 --size=64m --numjobs=4
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161fio ships with a few example job files, you can also look there for
162inspiration.
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1655.0 Detailed list of parameters
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167
168This section describes in details each parameter associated with a job.
169Some parameters take an option of a given type, such as an integer or
170a string. The following types are used:
171
172str String. This is a sequence of alpha characters.
173int Integer. A whole number value, may be negative.
174siint SI integer. A whole number value, which may contain a postfix
175 describing the base of the number. Accepted postfixes are k/m/g,
6c219763 176 meaning kilo, mega, and giga. So if you want to specify 4096,
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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.
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179 If the option accepts an upper and lower range, use a colon ':'
180 or minus '-' to seperate such values. See irange.
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181bool Boolean. Usually parsed as an integer, however only defined for
182 true and false (1 and 0).
183irange Integer range with postfix. Allows value range to be given, such
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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
187 siint.
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188
189With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job
190parameters.
191
192name=str ASCII name of the job. This may be used to override the
193 name printed by fio for this job. Otherwise the job
c2b1e753 194 name is used. On the command line this parameter has the
6c219763 195 special purpose of also signaling the start of a new
c2b1e753 196 job.
71bfa161 197
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198description=str Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except
199 dump this text description when this job is run. It's
200 not parsed.
201
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202directory=str Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to places files
203 in a different location than "./".
204
205filename=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
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208 a filename for each of them to override the default. If
209 the ioengine used is 'net', the filename is the host and
9f9214f2 210 port to connect to in the format of =host/port. If the
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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
71bfa161 215
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216opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this
217 directory and down the file system tree.
218
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219rw=str Type of io pattern. Accepted values are:
220
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
227
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.
231
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232randrepeat=bool For random IO workloads, seed the generator in a predictable
233 way so that results are repeatable across repetitions.
234
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235size=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.
241
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242filesize=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.
246
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247bs=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
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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.
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257bsrange=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
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260 given (also see bs_unaligned). Applies to both reads and
261 writes, however a second range can be given after a comma.
262 See bs=.
a00735e6 263
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264bs_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.
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267
268nrfiles=int Number of files to use for this job. Defaults to 1.
269
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270openfiles=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
272 simultaneous opens.
273
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274file_service_type=str Defines how fio decides which file from a job to
275 service next. The following types are defined:
276
277 random Just choose a file at random.
278
279 roundrobin Round robin over open files. This
280 is the default.
281
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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
285 have been issued.
286
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287ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
288 types are defined:
289
290 sync Basic read(2) or write(2) io. lseek(2) is
291 used to position the io location.
292
293 libaio Linux native asynchronous io.
294
295 posixaio glibc posix asynchronous io.
296
297 mmap File is memory mapped and data copied
298 to/from using memcpy(3).
299
300 splice splice(2) is used to transfer the data and
301 vmsplice(2) to transfer data from user
302 space to the kernel.
303
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304 syslet-rw Use the syslet system calls to make
305 regular read/write async.
306
71bfa161 307 sg SCSI generic sg v3 io. May either be
6c219763 308 synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if
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309 the target is an sg character device
310 we use read(2) and write(2) for asynchronous
311 io.
312
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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.
316
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317 net Transfer over the network to given host:port.
318 'filename' must be set appropriately to
9f9214f2 319 filename=host/port regardless of send
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320 or receive, if the latter only the port
321 argument is used.
322
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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
327 85% of the CPU.
328
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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.
333
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334iodepth=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
337 concurrency.
338
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339iodepth_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
341 if one so desires.
342
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343iodepth_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.
349
71bfa161 350direct=bool If value is true, use non-buffered io. This is usually
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351 O_DIRECT.
352
353buffered=bool If value is true, use buffered io. This is the opposite
354 of the 'direct' option. Defaults to true.
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355
356offset=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.
359
360fsync=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
6c219763 365 synchronizes the disk cache anyway.
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366
367overwrite=bool If writing to a file, setup the file first and do overwrites.
368
369end_fsync=bool If true, fsync file contents when the job exits.
370
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371fsync_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.
374
6c219763 375rwmixcycle=int Value in milliseconds describing how often to switch between
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376 reads and writes for a mixed workload. The default is
377 500 msecs.
378
379rwmixread=int How large a percentage of the mix should be reads.
380
381rwmixwrite=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
384 the first.
385
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386norandommap 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.
392
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393nice=int Run the job with the given nice value. See man nice(2).
394
395prio=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.
397 See man ionice(1).
398
399prioclass=int Set the io priority class. See man ionice(1).
400
401thinktime=int Stall the job x microseconds after an io has completed before
402 issuing the next. May be used to simulate processing being
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403 done by an application. See thinktime_blocks and
404 thinktime_spin.
405
406thinktime_spin=int
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
410 thinktime.
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411
412thinktime_blocks
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
416 after every block.
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417
418rate=int Cap the bandwidth used by this job to this number of KiB/sec.
419
420ratemin=int Tell fio to do whatever it can to maintain at least this
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421 bandwidth. Failing to meet this requirement, will cause
422 the job to exit.
423
424rate_iops=int Cap the bandwidth to this number of IOPS. Basically the same
425 as rate, just specified independently of bandwidth. If the
426 job is given a block size range instead of a fixed value,
427 the smallest block size is used as the metric.
428
429rate_iops_min=int If fio doesn't meet this rate of IO, it will cause
430 the job to exit.
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431
432ratecycle=int Average bandwidth for 'rate' and 'ratemin' over this number
6c219763 433 of milliseconds.
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434
435cpumask=int Set the CPU affinity of this job. The parameter given is a
436 bitmask of allowed CPU's the job may run on. See man
437 sched_setaffinity(2).
438
439startdelay=int Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio
440 has started. Only useful if the job file contains several
441 jobs, and you want to delay starting some jobs to a certain
442 time.
443
03b74b3e 444runtime=int Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified number
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445 of seconds. It can be quite hard to determine for how long
446 a specified job will run, so this parameter is handy to
447 cap the total runtime to a given time.
448
449invalidate=bool Invalidate the buffer/page cache parts for this file prior
450 to starting io. Defaults to true.
451
452sync=bool Use sync io for buffered writes. For the majority of the
453 io engines, this means using O_SYNC.
454
455mem=str Fio can use various types of memory as the io unit buffer.
456 The allowed values are:
457
458 malloc Use memory from malloc(3) as the buffers.
459
460 shm Use shared memory as the buffers. Allocated
461 through shmget(2).
462
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463 shmhuge Same as shm, but use huge pages as backing.
464
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465 mmap Use mmap to allocate buffers. May either be
466 anonymous memory, or can be file backed if
467 a filename is given after the option. The
468 format is mem=mmap:/path/to/file.
71bfa161 469
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470 mmaphuge Use a memory mapped huge file as the buffer
471 backing. Append filename after mmaphuge, ala
472 mem=mmaphuge:/hugetlbfs/file
473
71bfa161 474 The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed
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475 bs size for the job, multiplied by the io depth given. Note
476 that for shmhuge and mmaphuge to work, the system must have
477 free huge pages allocated. This can normally be checked
478 and set by reading/writing /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages on a
479 Linux system. Fio assumes a huge page is 4MiB in size. So
480 to calculate the number of huge pages you need for a given
481 job file, add up the io depth of all jobs (normally one unless
482 iodepth= is used) and multiply by the maximum bs set. Then
483 divide that number by the huge page size. You can see the
484 size of the huge pages in /proc/meminfo. If no huge pages
485 are allocated by having a non-zero number in nr_hugepages,
56bb17f2 486 using mmaphuge or shmhuge will fail. Also see hugepage-size.
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487
488 mmaphuge also needs to have hugetlbfs mounted and the file
489 location should point there. So if it's mounted in /huge,
490 you would use mem=mmaphuge:/huge/somefile.
71bfa161 491
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492hugepage-size=siint
493 Defines the size of a huge page. Must at least be equal
494 to the system setting, see /proc/meminfo. Defaults to 4MiB.
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495 Should probably always be a multiple of megabytes, so using
496 hugepage-size=Xm is the preferred way to set this to avoid
497 setting a non-pow-2 bad value.
56bb17f2 498
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499exitall When one job finishes, terminate the rest. The default is
500 to wait for each job to finish, sometimes that is not the
501 desired action.
502
503bwavgtime=int Average the calculated bandwidth over the given time. Value
6c219763 504 is specified in milliseconds.
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506create_serialize=bool If true, serialize the file creating for the jobs.
507 This may be handy to avoid interleaving of data
508 files, which may greatly depend on the filesystem
509 used and even the number of processors in the system.
510
511create_fsync=bool fsync the data file after creation. This is the
512 default.
513
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514unlink=bool Unlink the job files when done. Not the default, as repeated
515 runs of that job would then waste time recreating the fileset
516 again and again.
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517
518loops=int Run the specified number of iterations of this job. Used
519 to repeat the same workload a given number of times. Defaults
520 to 1.
521
522verify=str If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents
523 after each iteration of the job. The allowed values are:
524
525 md5 Use an md5 sum of the data area and store
526 it in the header of each block.
527
528 crc32 Use a crc32 sum of the data area and store
529 it in the header of each block.
530
6c219763 531 This option can be used for repeated burn-in tests of a
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532 system to make sure that the written data is also
533 correctly read back.
534
535stonewall Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
536 starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization
537 points in the job file.
538
539numjobs=int Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be
540 used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing
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541 the same thing. We regard that grouping of jobs as a
542 specific group.
543
544group_reporting If 'numjobs' is set, it may be interesting to display
545 statistics for the group as a whole instead of for each
546 individual job. This is especially true of 'numjobs' is
547 large, looking at individual thread/process output quickly
548 becomes unwieldy. If 'group_reporting' is specified, fio
549 will show the final report per-group instead of per-job.
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550
551thread fio defaults to forking jobs, however if this option is
552 given, fio will use pthread_create(3) to create threads
553 instead.
554
555zonesize=siint Divide a file into zones of the specified size. See zoneskip.
556
557zoneskip=siint Skip the specified number of bytes when zonesize data has
558 been read. The two zone options can be used to only do
559 io on zones of a file.
560
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561write_iolog=str Write the issued io patterns to the specified file. See
562 read_iolog.
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076efc7c 564read_iolog=str Open an iolog with the specified file name and replay the
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565 io patterns it contains. This can be used to store a
566 workload and replay it sometime later.
567
568write_bw_log If given, write a bandwidth log of the jobs in this job
569 file. Can be used to store data of the bandwidth of the
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570 jobs in their lifetime. The included fio_generate_plots
571 script uses gnuplot to turn these text files into nice
572 graphs.
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573
574write_lat_log Same as write_bw_log, except that this option stores io
575 completion latencies instead.
576
577lockmem=siint Pin down the specified amount of memory with mlock(2). Can
578 potentially be used instead of removing memory or booting
579 with less memory to simulate a smaller amount of memory.
580
581exec_prerun=str Before running this job, issue the command specified
582 through system(3).
583
584exec_postrun=str After the job completes, issue the command specified
585 though system(3).
586
587ioscheduler=str Attempt to switch the device hosting the file to the specified
588 io scheduler before running.
589
590cpuload=int If the job is a CPU cycle eater, attempt to use the specified
591 percentage of CPU cycles.
592
593cpuchunks=int If the job is a CPU cycle eater, split the load into
6c219763 594 cycles of the given time. In milliseconds.
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5976.0 Interpreting the output
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599
600fio spits out a lot of output. While running, fio will display the
601status of the jobs created. An example of that would be:
602
73c8b082 603Threads: 1: [_r] [24.8% done] [ 13509/ 8334 kb/s] [eta 00h:01m:31s]
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605The characters inside the square brackets denote the current status of
606each thread. The possible values (in typical life cycle order) are:
607
608Idle Run
609---- ---
610P Thread setup, but not started.
611C Thread created.
612I Thread initialized, waiting.
613 R Running, doing sequential reads.
614 r Running, doing random reads.
615 W Running, doing sequential writes.
616 w Running, doing random writes.
617 M Running, doing mixed sequential reads/writes.
618 m Running, doing mixed random reads/writes.
619 F Running, currently waiting for fsync()
620V Running, doing verification of written data.
621E Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet.
622_ Thread reaped.
623
624The other values are fairly self explanatory - number of threads
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625currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check, and the estimated
626completion percentage and time for the running group. It's impossible to
627estimate runtime of the following groups (if any).
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629When fio is done (or interrupted by ctrl-c), it will show the data for
630each thread, group of threads, and disks in that order. For each data
631direction, the output looks like:
632
633Client1 (g=0): err= 0:
634 write: io= 32MiB, bw= 666KiB/s, runt= 50320msec
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635 slat (msec): min= 0, max= 136, avg= 0.03, stdev= 1.92
636 clat (msec): min= 0, max= 631, avg=48.50, stdev=86.82
637 bw (KiB/s) : min= 0, max= 1196, per=51.00%, avg=664.02, stdev=681.68
71bfa161 638 cpu : usr=1.49%, sys=0.25%, ctx=7969
71619dc2 639 IO depths : 1=0.1%, 2=0.3%, 4=0.5%, 8=99.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >32=0.0%
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640 lat (msec): 2=1.6%, 4=0.0%, 10=3.2%, 20=12.8%, 50=38.4%, 100=24.8%,
641 lat (msec): 250=15.2%, 500=0.0%, 750=0.0%, 1000=0.0%, >=2048=0.0%
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643The client number is printed, along with the group id and error of that
644thread. Below is the io statistics, here for writes. In the order listed,
645they denote:
646
647io= Number of megabytes io performed
648bw= Average bandwidth rate
649runt= The runtime of that thread
650 slat= Submission latency (avg being the average, dev being the
651 standard deviation). This is the time it took to submit
652 the io. For sync io, the slat is really the completion
653 latency, since queue/complete is one operation there.
654 clat= Completion latency. Same names as slat, this denotes the
655 time from submission to completion of the io pieces. For
656 sync io, clat will usually be equal (or very close) to 0,
657 as the time from submit to complete is basically just
658 CPU time (io has already been done, see slat explanation).
659 bw= Bandwidth. Same names as the xlat stats, but also includes
660 an approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth
661 this thread received in this group. This last value is
662 only really useful if the threads in this group are on the
663 same disk, since they are then competing for disk access.
664cpu= CPU usage. User and system time, along with the number
665 of context switches this thread went through.
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666IO depths= The distribution of io depths over the job life time. The
667 numbers are divided into powers of 2, so for example the
668 16= entries includes depths up to that value but higher
669 than the previous entry. In other words, it covers the
670 range from 16 to 31.
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671IO latencies= The distribution of IO completion latencies. This is the
672 time from when IO leaves fio and when it gets completed.
673 The numbers follow the same pattern as the IO depths,
674 meaning that 2=1.6% means that 1.6% of the IO completed
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675 within 2 msecs, 20=12.8% means that 12.8% of the IO
676 took more than 10 msecs, but less than (or equal to) 20 msecs.
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678After each client has been listed, the group statistics are printed. They
679will look like this:
680
681Run status group 0 (all jobs):
682 READ: io=64MiB, aggrb=22178, minb=11355, maxb=11814, mint=2840msec, maxt=2955msec
683 WRITE: io=64MiB, aggrb=1302, minb=666, maxb=669, mint=50093msec, maxt=50320msec
684
685For each data direction, it prints:
686
687io= Number of megabytes io performed.
688aggrb= Aggregate bandwidth of threads in this group.
689minb= The minimum average bandwidth a thread saw.
690maxb= The maximum average bandwidth a thread saw.
691mint= The smallest runtime of the threads in that group.
692maxt= The longest runtime of the threads in that group.
693
694And finally, the disk statistics are printed. They will look like this:
695
696Disk stats (read/write):
697 sda: ios=16398/16511, merge=30/162, ticks=6853/819634, in_queue=826487, util=100.00%
698
699Each value is printed for both reads and writes, with reads first. The
700numbers denote:
701
702ios= Number of ios performed by all groups.
703merge= Number of merges io the io scheduler.
704ticks= Number of ticks we kept the disk busy.
705io_queue= Total time spent in the disk queue.
706util= The disk utilization. A value of 100% means we kept the disk
707 busy constantly, 50% would be a disk idling half of the time.
708
709
7107.0 Terse output
711----------------
712
713For scripted usage where you typically want to generate tables or graphs
6af019c9 714of the results, fio can output the results in a semicolon separated format.
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715The format is one long line of values, such as:
716
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717client1;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%
718;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%;0.0%
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720Split up, the format is as follows:
721
722 jobname, groupid, error
723 READ status:
724 KiB IO, bandwidth (KiB/sec), runtime (msec)
725 Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation
726 Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation
6c219763 727 Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
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728 WRITE status:
729 KiB IO, bandwidth (KiB/sec), runtime (msec)
730 Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation
731 Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation
6c219763 732 Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
71bfa161 733 CPU usage: user, system, context switches
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735 IO latencies: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, >=2000
736 Text description
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