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 ### Start YCSB workload
 
 From your YCSB directory, you can run the ycsb workload as follows
-`./bin/ycsb load geode -P workloads/workloada -p geode.locator=host[port]`
+```
+./bin/ycsb load geode -P workloads/workloada -p geode.locator=host[port]
+```
+(default port of locator is 10334).
 
 In the default mode, ycsb geode driver will connect as a client to the geode
 cluster. To make the ycsb driver a peer member of the distributed system