X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6b23d7c5e1b3c52c43c7bb076348c1800e28f592;hp=2d5d499984db632eb4ab5e5b357418509c43bb29;hb=0798ba36674a7a244e8bc10877e322973a5ca938;hpb=03b74b3ec5268e731ed7fcaef31c8c0655acd530 diff --git a/README b/README index 2d5d4999..6b23d7c5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ well. You can download them here: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/ -Pascal Bleser has fio RPMs in his repository, you -can find them here: +Pascal Bleser 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 +Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here: + +http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/ + Mailing list ------------ @@ -61,6 +65,7 @@ $ fio --version Print version info and exit --help Print this page --cmdhelp=cmd Print command help, "all" for all of them + --showcmd Turn a job file into command line options Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files, unless they match a job file parameter. You can add as many as you want, @@ -80,6 +85,7 @@ is in the ini style format, as it's easy to read and write for the user. The job file parameters are: name=x Use 'x' as the identifier for this job. + description=x 'x' is a text description of the job. directory=x Use 'x' as the top level directory for storing files filename=x Force the use of 'x' as the filename for all files in this thread. If not given, fio will make up @@ -99,12 +105,13 @@ The job file parameters are: size=x Set file size to x bytes (x string can include k/m/g) ioengine=x 'x' may be: aio/libaio/linuxaio for Linux aio, posixaio for POSIX aio, sync for regular read/write io, - mmap for mmap'ed io, splice for using splice/vmsplice, - or sgio for direct SG_IO io. The latter only works on - Linux on SCSI (or SCSI-like devices, such as - usb-storage or sata/libata driven) devices. Fio also - has a null io engine, which is mainly used for testing - fio itself. + mmap for mmap'ed io, syslet-rw for syslet driven + read/write, splice for using splice/vmsplice, + sgio for direct SG_IO io, net for network io, or cpuio + for a cycler burner load. sgio only works on Linux on + SCSI (or SCSI-like devices, such as usb-storage or + sata/libata driven) devices. Fio also has a null io + engine, which is mainly used for testing fio itself. iodepth=x For async io, allow 'x' ios in flight overwrite=x If 'x', layout a write file first. nrfiles=x Spread io load over 'x' number of files per job, @@ -170,7 +177,7 @@ The job file parameters are: ioscheduler=x Use ioscheduler 'x' for this job. cpuload=x For a CPU io thread, percentage of CPU time to attempt to burn. - cpuchunks=x Split burn cycles into pieces of x. + cpuchunks=x Split burn cycles into pieces of x usecs. Author