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Appendix A: Benchmark Command Reference
This section describes the commands used to benchmark the Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE Lustre
solution.
IOzone
IOzone Sequential Writes –
iozone -i 0 -c -e -w -r 1024K -I -s $Size -t $Thread -+n -+m /root/list.$Thread
IOzone Sequential Reads -
iozone -i 1 -c -e -w -r 1024K -I -s $Size -t $Thread -+n -+m /root/list.$Thread
IOzone IOPS Random Reads / Writes –
iozone -i 2 -w -c -O -I -r 4K -s $Size -t $Thread -+n -+m /root/list.$Thread
IOzone Command Line
Arguments
Description
-i 0
Write test
-i 1
Read test
-i 2
Random IOPS test
-+n
No retest
-c
Includes close in the timing calculations
-e
Includes flush in the timing calculations
-r
Records size
-s
File size
-+m
Location of clients to run IOzone on when in clustered mode
-I
Use O_Direct
-w
Does not unlink (delete) temporary file
-+n
No retests selected
-O
Return results in OPS
The O_Direct command line parameter (“-I”) allows us to bypass the cache on the compute nodes
where the IOzone threads are running.