> So if i understand this correctly, it will create $nthreads, and each of 
> those threads will create two threads: one to do "rand-read" and one to 
> do "rand-write".  And there's no serialization between the "rand-read" 
> and "rand-write" threads right (that is, the rand-write doesn't have to 
> wait to start until the rand-read is done)?
> 
> And all reads/writes are done on the same file (namely $largefile1) in 
> this example.
> 
> look legit?
> 

Yes, you will have 2x $nthreads thread in this workload, with a 50/50 
read/write.


> is there any easy way to specify a 60/40 workload (60% reads, 40% 
> writes)?  i imagine i could just code up 10 separate threads under the 
> "process", 6 to do reads, 4 to do writes?
> 

At the moment, the easiest way to do that is create 3 flowops that do
read and 2 that do write within the thread...

> 
> side question for future requests... should i be sending question to 
> this alias or the opensolaris one?

Both is OK...

Regards,


Richard.

> 
> eric

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