http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
-Pascal Bleser <guru@unixtech.be> has fio RPMs in his repository for
-SUSE variants, you can find them here:
+Binary packages
+---------------
+
+Debian:
+Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official
+Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio
+
+Ubuntu:
+Starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (aka "Lucid Lynx"), fio packages are part
+of the Ubuntu "universe" repository.
+http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio
+
+SUSE:
+Pascal Bleser <guru@unixtech.be> has fio RPMs in his repository for SUSE
+variants, you can find them here:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=System/fio
+Red Hat, CentOS & Co:
Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here:
-
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/
+Mandriva:
Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing
on that distro should be as easy as typing 'urpmi fio'.
+Solaris:
+Packages for Solaris are available from OpenCSW. Install their pkgutil
+tool (http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/) and then install fio via
+'pkgutil -i fio'.
+
Mailing list
------------
subscribe fio
-in the body of the email. There is no archive for the new list yet,
-archives for the old list can be found here:
+in the body of the email. Archives can be found here:
+
+http://www.spinics.net/lists/fio/
+
+and archives for the old list can be found here:
http://maillist.kernel.dk/fio-devel/
$ gmake -f Makefile.Freebsd && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
+Same goes for AIX:
+
+$ gmake -f Makefile.aix && gmake -f Makefile.aix install
+
Likewise with OpenSolaris, use the Makefile.solaris to compile there.
The OpenSolaris make should work fine. This might change in the
future if I opt for an autoconf type setup.
diskutil Dump info related to disk utilization updates
job:x Dump info only related to job number x
mutex Dump info only related to mutex up/down ops
+ profile Dump info related to profile extensions
+ time Dump info related to internal time keeping
? or help Show available debug options.
You can specify as many as you want, eg --debug=file,mem will enable
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
also include k/m postfix.
direct=x 1 for direct IO, 0 for buffered IO
thinktime=x "Think" x usec after each io
- rate=x Throttle rate to x KiB/sec
- ratemin=x Quit if rate of x KiB/sec can't be met
+ rate=x Throttle rate to x KB/sec
+ ratemin=x Quit if rate of x KB/sec can't be met
ratecycle=x ratemin averaged over x msecs
cpumask=x Only allow job to run on CPUs defined by mask.
cpus_allowed=x Like 'cpumask', but allow text setting of CPU affinity.
and length entries being in bytes.
write_iolog=x Write an iolog to file 'x' in the same format as iolog.
The iolog options are exclusive, if both given the
- read iolog will be performed.
+ read iolog will be performed. Specify a separate file
+ for each job, otherwise the iologs will be interspersed
+ and the file may be corrupt.
write_bw_log Write a bandwidth log.
write_lat_log Write a latency log.
lockmem=x Lock down x amount of memory on the machine, to
Platforms
---------
-Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. Some features and/or
-options may only be available on some of the platforms, typically because
-those features only apply to that platform (like the solarisaio engine, or
-the splice engine on Linux).
+Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, OSX, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. Some
+features and/or options may only be available on some of the platforms,
+typically because those features only apply to that platform (like the
+solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).
Some features are not available on FreeBSD/Solaris even if they could be
implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is
appreciated. There's a lot of value in having the same test/benchmark tool
available on all platforms.
+Note that POSIX aio is not enabled by default on AIX. If you get messages like:
+
+ Symbol resolution failed for /usr/lib/libc.a(posix_aio.o) because:
+ Symbol _posix_kaio_rdwr (number 2) is not exported from dependent module /unix.
+
+you need to enable POSIX aio. Run the following commands as root:
+
+ # lsdev -C -l posix_aio0
+ posix_aio0 Defined Posix Asynchronous I/O
+ # cfgmgr -l posix_aio0
+ # lsdev -C -l posix_aio0
+ posix_aio0 Available Posix Asynchronous I/O
+
+POSIX aio should work now. To make the change permanent:
+
+ # chdev -l posix_aio0 -P -a autoconfig='available'
+ posix_aio0 changed
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