AIX Open Source

AIX Open Source

Share your experiences and connect with fellow developers to discover how to build and manage open source software for the AIX operating system

 View Only
  • 1.  Newer version of FIO 3.40 in AIX Toolbox

    Posted Fri May 30, 2025 09:15 AM

    The latest version of FIO in AIX toolbox is 3.38 which I am having issues running and it is recommended to upgrade to 3.40 which isn't available in the AIX Toolbox. Could this rpm be created and added so that I can upgrade FIO? I have tried building FIO from source, but it is running into conflict issues on AIX.



    ------------------------------
    Joshua Guyer
    ------------------------------


  • 2.  RE: Newer version of FIO 3.40 in AIX Toolbox

    Posted Mon June 02, 2025 02:40 AM
    Edited by Ranjit Ranjan Mon June 02, 2025 02:41 AM

    Hi Joshua,

    Can you provide more detail about issue you are facing with fio 3.38?

    Thanks
    Ranjit



    ------------------------------
    Ranjit Ranjan
    ------------------------------



  • 3.  RE: Newer version of FIO 3.40 in AIX Toolbox

    Posted Mon June 02, 2025 09:14 AM

    Ranjit,

    This is the error I am seeing
    2025-04-01 17:59:12,789 (IOexer.py:120) ERROR fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=33489976, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=30409492, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=19203062, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=23921418, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=22742220, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=43647812, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=53281678, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=34342030, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=36832360, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=19465008, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting
    fio: pid=54657628, err=45/
    fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, fo
    2025-04-01 17:59:12,790 (IOexer.py:121) ERROR
    2025-04-01 17:59:12,791 (test.py:271) ERROR Error running command /opt/freeware/bin/fio --output-format=json --norandommap --filename=/dev/rhdisk2 --size=1600000000000 --name=rand-write --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite --runtime=240 --group_reporting=1 --direct=1 --iodepth=1 --numjobs=1024 --bs=8K --time_based=1

    There was an open issue on the FIO github that was similar to mine, and they recommended upgrading to the latest version.

    fio dying with "fio seems to be stuck grabbing stat_sem, forcibly exiting" during data integrity test · Issue #1896 · axboe/fio



    ------------------------------
    Joshua Guyer
    ------------------------------



  • 4.  RE: Newer version of FIO 3.40 in AIX Toolbox

    Posted Mon June 02, 2025 10:07 AM

    Okay.  We will update fio to latest 3.40 version in coming couple of weeks. 

    Thanks
    Ranjit



    ------------------------------
    Ranjit Ranjan
    ------------------------------



  • 5.  RE: Newer version of FIO 3.40 in AIX Toolbox

    Posted 21 days ago

    Hi Joshua,

    Fio 3.40 is available in AIX toolbox. Please upgrade and check the behaviour w.r.t to above mentioned issue.

    Thanks
    Ranjit



    ------------------------------
    Ranjit Ranjan
    ------------------------------