fio

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Flexible I/O tester: do an I/O action spawning multiple threads or processes.

Examples (5)

Test random reads

fio --filename=path/to/file --direct=1 --rw=randread --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting --name=job_name --eta-newline=1 --readonly

Test sequential reads

fio --filename=path/to/file --direct=1 --rw=read --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting --name=job_name --eta-newline=1 --readonly

Test random read/write

fio --filename=path/to/file --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting --name=job_name --eta-newline=1

Test with parameters from a job file

fio path/to/job_file

Convert a specific job file to command-line options

fio --showcmd path/to/job_file

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