On 02/26/2015 02:11 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > (sorry about top-posting here) > > For things like this, I'd use an external script specifying all params on > each command line, and not use a job file at all. Order of execution is > guaranteed and there's no limit to the number of jobs. (When fio evaluates > the job file it creates all the jobs, but then doesn't let them all start at > once.) > > z! > ________
I'm prepared to do that, it's just messy for my particular situation. Not having looked through the code, I was under the impression that "stonewall" changed the semantics of that behavior. Understood... Thanks for the insight. Much appreciated... > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of > thoms [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 8:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Stonewalled ? > > Hi folks, > > I'm running fio-2.2.5 on a Linux x86_64 platform. This is the first > time I've had to create a job file with an extremely large number of job > sections within the same file (hundreds of jobs). I need each job to > run sequentially and have included "stonewall" within each section. > When I execute the job file, I get this error: > > error: maximum number of jobs (2048) reached. > > When I reduce the number of job sections in the file to under 200, the > job runs sequentially as expected. > > My understanding of "stonewall" is that it should serialize the running > of each job within a file (or files). The implication is that fio > shouldn't be evaluating a subsequent job section until after the current > job has fully completed. But in this case, fio appears to be looking > ahead and ignoring the "stonewall" directive until it exhausts > resources. This behavior also occurs within the current git commit. > > Is this a feature or a bug, and is there another way to tell fio to > execute each job sequentially (top to bottom) as it encounters them in > the file? > > Thanks! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
