Why is there a huge difference in disk I/O performance with different ioengines using FIO?
Issue
FIO
performance benchmarking test results differ from one ioengine to another.- Why does
libaio
randwrite(w/s) perform many times better thansync
?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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