Merge branch 'pr/note-for-shmmax' of https://github.com/taghos/fio

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index b943db2289d66c87ced5bd3b7112cf9b580db8ab..6e7d1f8b1e4647e3e87912304a67c5e51101222b 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ All fio parser warnings are fatal, causing fio to exit with an error.
 .TP
 .BI \-\-max\-jobs \fR=\fPnr
 Set the maximum number of threads/processes to support to \fInr\fR.
+NOTE: On Linux, it may be necessary to increase the shared-memory limit
+(`/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax') if fio runs into errors while creating jobs.
 .TP
 .BI \-\-server \fR=\fPargs
 Start a backend server, with \fIargs\fR specifying what to listen to.
@@ -1577,6 +1579,10 @@ the engine filename, e.g. `ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o' to load
 ioengine `foo.o' in `/tmp'. The path can be either
 absolute or relative. See `engines/skeleton_external.c' in the fio source for
 details of writing an external I/O engine.
+.TP
+.B filecreate
+Create empty files only.  \fBfilesize\fR still needs to be specified so that fio
+will run and grab latency results, but no IO will actually be done on the files.
 .SS "I/O engine specific parameters"
 In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific
 \fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters,