<div dir="ltr">Hi Michael<div><br></div><div>Pathological is very subjective, but the standard IOPS test with IOR involves doing 4K writes (or reads) with random but non-overlapping offsets:</div><div><br></div><div>srun -N 4 -n 128 ./ior -t 4096 -b 4096 -s 1024 -e -w -z<br></div><div><br></div><div>However IOR is not really designed to do truly terrible I/O patterns such as those that involve re-writing the same blocks, so the best you can do (without modifying IOR) is trigger a bunch of false sharing and lock contention by issuing small, strided writes, e.g.,</div><div><br></div><div>srun -N 4 -n 128 ~/ior -t 1024 -b 1024 -s 4096 -e -w<br></div><div><br></div><div>You can salt to taste, for example, by using transfer/block sizes that don't divide nicely into your stripe size. But what is it exactly that you're trying to accomplish? Real applications, even the bad ones, usually don't do the nicely defined patterns that IOR does.</div><div><br></div><div>Glenn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Michael Kluge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.kluge@tu-dresden.de" target="_blank">michael.kluge@tu-dresden.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I am looking for IOR scripts that represent pathological use cases for file systems. Something like shared file access with a small, unaligned block size or random I/O to a shared file. Does anyone has some input for me there that he/she is willing to share?<br>
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