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    Question How best to benchmark test NVMe in Linux?

    Thanks all for the help, I am still diving into this. I went off on a libaio rabbit hole and had to shelve that for now. What makes things difficult in my end program versus all the speed test examples (which I know is what I originally asked about) is that I will receive data in a bursty...
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    Question How best to benchmark test NVMe in Linux?

    OK, sounds good BTW, I just reran a 30GB dd test and didn't see a different between MiB and MB buffer sizes. Now, very important, This was for 30GB so I could get some quick results. I don't know how similar things will be when I write 900GB (I will try it later, it just takes so long :) ) $...
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    Question How best to benchmark test NVMe in Linux?

    Thanks for the quick response. Thank you for the information on how the tests were run. I actually did some tests with fio as a plugin for spdk. I got good better numbers doing that, but what concerned me was that it is really doing the writes a different way. I was worried that I would not...
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    Question How best to benchmark test NVMe in Linux?

    I am running Ubuntu 18.04 in a fairly new system. I recently bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus to do some speed tests for work. While trying different things and not getting the results I wanted, I stumbled upon the great write up here...