Hi Jens,

in the fio man-page you are writing:
"Even async engines my impose OS restrictions causing the desired depth not to 
be achieved.This may happen on Linux when using libaio and not setting 
direct=1, since buffered IO is not async on that OS."
(there's also a typo, I think it should be "may" instead of "my")

Nevertheless it is possible to use fio with libaio and buffered IO:
$ fio --rw=write --name=test --size=20M --runtime=60 --time_based --iodepth=64 
--ioengine=libaio
[...]
IO depths    : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.2%, 16=0.3%, 32=0.6%, >=64=98.8%

Could you point out the limitations that come up with libaio<->buffered IO 
(page cache)?

Thanks, Georg
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