Re: fio write log creates segmentation fault

On Mon, May 26 2008, Gregory D. Beutler wrote:
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> [root_at_pcp005034pcs fio]# ./fio seagate-aio-read.job
> hi,
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> found fio- trying to test perfomance of seagate FC disks.
> trying to see if they actually do 90-40 MB/s
> getting only 73 MB/s so far even with aio and queue depth =4 on ext3 formatted disks
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> q1) how do I test just RAW disk?

Juse use filename=/dev/sda or whatever is your disk.

> 2) the program faults if I add the line to the job
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> write_iolog=iolog_1thred_aio_ext3.log

Known bug, it's fixed in later revisions. Grab

http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-git-latest.tar.gz

and try again. I'll be doing a 1.21 fairly soonish.

-- 
Jens Axboe