# # io class stressors: # various options have been commented out, one can remove the # proceeding comment to enable these options if required. # # run the following tests in parallel or sequentially # run sequential # run parallel # # aggressive: # enables more file, cache and memory aggressive options. This may # slow tests down, increase latencies and reduce the number of # bogo ops as well as changing the balance of user time vs system # time used depending on the type of stressor being used. # # aggressive # # ignite-cpu: # alter kernel controls to try and maximize the CPU. This requires # root privilege to alter various /sys interface controls. Cur‐ # rently this only works for Intel P-State enabled x86 systems on # Linux. # # ignite-cpu # # keep-name: # by default, stress-ng will attempt to change the name of the # stress processes according to their functionality; this option # disables this and keeps the process names to be the name of the # parent process, that is, stress-ng. # # keep-name # # metrics-brief: # enable metrics and only output metrics that are non-zero. # metrics-brief # # verbose # show all debug, warnings and normal information output. # verbose # # run each of the tests for 60 seconds # stop stress test after N seconds. One can also specify the units # of time in seconds, minutes, hours, days or years with the suf‐ # fix s, m, h, d or y. # timeout 60s # # per stressor options start here # # # aio stressor options: # start N workers that issue multiple small asynchronous I/O # writes and reads on a relatively small temporary file using the # POSIX aio interface. This will just hit the file system cache # and soak up a lot of user and kernel time in issuing and han‐ # dling I/O requests. By default, each worker process will handle # 16 concurrent I/O requests. # aio 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # aio-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # aio-requests 16 # I/O requests per aio operation # # aiol stressor options: # start N workers that issue multiple 4K random asynchronous I/O # writes using the Linux aio system calls io_setup(2), io_sub‐ # mit(2), io_getevents(2) and io_destroy(2). By default, each # worker process will handle 16 concurrent I/O requests. # aiol 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # aiol-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # aiol-requests 16 # I/O requests per aio operation # # hdd stressor options: # start N workers continually writing, reading and removing tempo‐ # rary files. The default mode is to stress test sequential writes # and reads. With the --ggressive option enabled without any # --hdd-opts options the hdd stressor will work through all the # --hdd-opt options one by one to cover a range of I/O options. # hdd 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # hdd-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # hdd-bytes 1G # use a 1GB file # hdd-opts direct,dsync,fadv-normal,fadv-rnd,fsync,noatime,rd-rnd,wr-rnd,syncfs,utims # various hdd options # hdd-write-size 4K # write size # # readahead stressor options: # start N workers that randomly seeks and performs 512 byte # read/write I/O operations on a file with readahead. The default # file size is 1 GB. Readaheads and reads are batched into 16 # readaheads and then 16 reads. # readahead 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # readahead-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # readahead-bytes 1M # readahead size # # seek stressor options: # start N workers that randomly seeks and performs 512 byte # read/write I/O operations on a file. The default file size is 16 # GB. # seek 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # seek-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # seek-punch # punch randomly located 8K holes into the file # seek-size 16GB # file size # # sync-file stressor options: # start N workers that perform a range of data syncs across a file # using sync_file_range(2). Three mixes of syncs are performed, # from start to the end of the file, from end of the file to the # start, and a random mix. A random selection of valid sync types # are used, covering the SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE, # SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE and SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER flag bits. # sync-file 0 # 0 means 1 stressor per CPU # sync-file-ops 1000000 # stop after 1000000 bogo ops # sync-file-bytes 10% # use 50% of the available file system