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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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str String. This is a sequence of alpha characters.
int Integer. A whole number value, can be negative. If prefixed with
0x, the integer is assumed to be of base 16 (hexadecimal).
+time Integer with possible time postfix. In seconds unless otherwise
+ specified, use eg 10m for 10 minutes. Accepts s/m/h for seconds,
+ minutes, and hours.
siint SI integer. A whole number value, which may contain a postfix
describing the base of the number. Accepted postfixes are k/m/g,
meaning kilo, mega, and giga. So if you want to specify 4096,
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setting of the permitted CPUs instead. So to use CPUs 1 and
5, you would specify cpus_allowed=1,5.
-startdelay=int Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio
+startdelay=time Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio
has started. Only useful if the job file contains several
jobs, and you want to delay starting some jobs to a certain
time.
-runtime=int Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified number
+runtime=time Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified number
of seconds. It can be quite hard to determine for how long
a specified job will run, so this parameter is handy to
cap the total runtime to a given time.
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written. It will simply loop over the same workload
as many times as the runtime allows.
-ramp_time If set, fio will run the specified workload for this amount
+ramp_time=time If set, fio will run the specified workload for this amount
of time before logging any performance numbers. Useful for
letting performance settle before logging results, thus
minimizing the runtime required for stable results.