the value is interpreted in seconds.
.TP
.BI \-\-status\-interval \fR=\fPtime
-Force full status dump every \fItime\fR period passed. When the unit is omitted,
-the value is interpreted in seconds.
+Force a full status dump of cumulative (from job start) values at \fItime\fR
+intervals. This option does *not* provide per-period measurements. So
+values such as bandwidth are running averages. When the time unit is omitted,
+\fItime\fR is interpreted in seconds.
.TP
.BI \-\-section \fR=\fPname
Only run specified section \fIname\fR in job file. Multiple sections can be specified.
.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.
`testfiles.$filenum' is specified, file number 4 for any job will be
named `testfiles.4'. The default of `$jobname.$jobnum.$filenum'
will be used if no other format specifier is given.
+.P
+If you specify a path then the directories will be created up to the main
+directory for the file. So for example if you specify `a/b/c/$jobnum` then the
+directories a/b/c will be created before the file setup part of the job. If you
+specify \fBdirectory\fR then the path will be relative that directory, otherwise
+it is treated as the absolute path.
.RE
.TP
.BI unique_filename \fR=\fPbool
.B external
Prefix to specify loading an external I/O engine object file. Append
the engine filename, e.g. `ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o' to load
-ioengine `foo.o' in `/tmp'.
+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,
\fBdisable_lat\fR.
.TP
.BI clat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool
-Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies.
+Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies. This option is
+mutually exclusive with \fBlat_percentiles\fR.
+.TP
+.BI lat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool
+Enable the reporting of percentiles of IO latencies. This is similar to
+\fBclat_percentiles\fR, except that this includes the submission latency.
+This option is mutually exclusive with \fBclat_percentiles\fR.
.TP
.BI percentile_list \fR=\fPfloat_list
Overwrite the default list of percentiles for completion latencies and the
.nf
terse_version_3;fio_version;jobname;groupid;error;read_kb;read_bandwidth;read_iops;read_runtime_ms;read_slat_min;read_slat_max;read_slat_mean;read_slat_dev;read_clat_min;read_clat_max;read_clat_mean;read_clat_dev;read_clat_pct01;read_clat_pct02;read_clat_pct03;read_clat_pct04;read_clat_pct05;read_clat_pct06;read_clat_pct07;read_clat_pct08;read_clat_pct09;read_clat_pct10;read_clat_pct11;read_clat_pct12;read_clat_pct13;read_clat_pct14;read_clat_pct15;read_clat_pct16;read_clat_pct17;read_clat_pct18;read_clat_pct19;read_clat_pct20;read_tlat_min;read_lat_max;read_lat_mean;read_lat_dev;read_bw_min;read_bw_max;read_bw_agg_pct;read_bw_mean;read_bw_dev;write_kb;write_bandwidth;write_iops;write_runtime_ms;write_slat_min;write_slat_max;write_slat_mean;write_slat_dev;write_clat_min;write_clat_max;write_clat_mean;write_clat_dev;write_clat_pct01;write_clat_pct02;write_clat_pct03;write_clat_pct04;write_clat_pct05;write_clat_pct06;write_clat_pct07;write_clat_pct08;write_clat_pct09;write_clat_pct10;write_clat_pct11;write_clat_pct12;write_clat_pct13;write_clat_pct14;write_clat_pct15;write_clat_pct16;write_clat_pct17;write_clat_pct18;write_clat_pct19;write_clat_pct20;write_tlat_min;write_lat_max;write_lat_mean;write_lat_dev;write_bw_min;write_bw_max;write_bw_agg_pct;write_bw_mean;write_bw_dev;cpu_user;cpu_sys;cpu_csw;cpu_mjf;cpu_minf;iodepth_1;iodepth_2;iodepth_4;iodepth_8;iodepth_16;iodepth_32;iodepth_64;lat_2us;lat_4us;lat_10us;lat_20us;lat_50us;lat_100us;lat_250us;lat_500us;lat_750us;lat_1000us;lat_2ms;lat_4ms;lat_10ms;lat_20ms;lat_50ms;lat_100ms;lat_250ms;lat_500ms;lat_750ms;lat_1000ms;lat_2000ms;lat_over_2000ms;disk_name;disk_read_iops;disk_write_iops;disk_read_merges;disk_write_merges;disk_read_ticks;write_ticks;disk_queue_time;disk_util
.fi
+.SH JSON OUTPUT
+The \fBjson\fR output format is intended to be both human readable and convenient
+for automated parsing. For the most part its sections mirror those of the
+\fBnormal\fR output. The \fBruntime\fR value is reported in msec and the \fBbw\fR value is
+reported in 1024 bytes per second units.
+.fi
.SH JSON+ OUTPUT
The \fBjson+\fR output format is identical to the \fBjson\fR output format except that it
adds a full dump of the completion latency bins. Each \fBbins\fR object contains a
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