stonewall Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization
- points in the job file.
+ points in the job file. A stone wall also implies starting
+ a new reporting group.
+
+new_group Start a new reporting group. If this option isn't given,
+ jobs in a file will be part of the same reporting group
+ unless seperated by a stone wall (or if it's a group
+ by itself, with the numjobs option).
numjobs=int Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be
used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing
io= Number of megabytes io performed
bw= Average bandwidth rate
runt= The runtime of that thread
- slat= Submission latency (avg being the average, dev being the
+ slat= Submission latency (avg being the average, stdev being the
standard deviation). This is the time it took to submit
the io. For sync io, the slat is really the completion
latency, since queue/complete is one operation there.