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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] iozone-3.15-1mdk
> from the quill of Lenny Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [Contrib-RPM]
> >
> > --=-=-=
> > Name : iozone Distribution: Mandrake
>
> The manpage for iozone is inaccurate. The synopsis shows:
>
> SYNOPSIS
> Iozone [-s kilobytes] [-r record_length in kb] [-f
> [path]filename] [-i test] [-E] [-p] [-a] [-A] [-m] [-M]
> [-t children] [-h] [-o] [-l min_number_procs] [-u
> max_number_procs] [-v] [-R] [-x] [-d microseconds] [-F
> path1 path2...] [-V pattern ] [-j stride] [-T] [-C] [-B]
> [-D] [-G] [-I] [-H depth] [-k depth] [-U mount_point] [-S
> cache_size] [-O] [-L line_size] [-N] [-Q] [-P start_cpu]
> [-c] [-e]
>
> Which means that every single argument is optional. However when I run
> just "iozone" it complains:
>
> $ iozone
> Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
> Version $Revision: 3.15 $
> Compiled for 32 bit mode.
>
> Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby
Collins
> Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss
> Steve Landherr, Brad Smith.
>
> Run began: Wed Mar 1 17:42:23 2000
>
> Usage: For usage information type iozone -h
>
>
> If there are any minimum required arguments then they should not be in
> square brackets ([]) but instead should be unbracketted or if there are
> a group of mutually exclusive options they should be in a elipsis ({}).
>
> b.
>
>
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