This sounds like more than one machine can handle, regardless. Have you thought about using JMeter's distributed capabilities? It allows you to run a JMeter GUI on one machine that can control multiple JMeter servers running on other machines.
-Mike On 10 Jul 2002 at 12:48, Scott Eade wrote: > Thanks for all the replies - very helpful. > > Here is a little more information about what I am proposing to do. > > I need to test a site with something like 7,500 sessions being initiated per > hour. The sessions are going to be relatively long, say 15 minutes for > 5,000 and over an hour for the remaining 2,500. The shorter sessions will > have a 45 second pause between each page request and the longer running > sessions a combination of 30 second and 5 minute pauses. > > As suggested by Michael and Olav I will keep an eye on the CPU usage of the > machines running the test sessions to ensure I am not getting any adverse > effects relating to the overloading of these machines. At least a second > machine running a smaller number of threads to monitor the relative response > time is a good idea, thanks Michael. > > We have decided to ignore network effects for our current testing by using > machines connected to the same switch as the web server. > > From the various comments received I am thinking that multiple client > machines are going to be necessary. The Remote Testing documentation > appears to suggest that the jmeter testing engine would be running on the > application server (I assume in my case this would be the web server), but > wouldn't this be using resources that should be kept available for the > application? I assume remote testing can also support multiple testing > engines that execute their scripts against a common application server - is > this correct? How would I go about combining the results from the testing > executed on multiple clients - would it be a simple matter of merging the > results files? Has anyone tried this? > > Thanks again, > > Scott > > > From: Scott Eade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "JMeter Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:06:11 +1000 > > To: JMeter Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: How many threads from a single machine? > > > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in obtaining some feedback as to the number of threads (test > > sessions) I should expect to be able to execute from a single machine. > > Obviously the intensity of the script and the type of machine used will have > > a significant impact on this, so I guess some values obtained from > > experience that include a little information about the scripts and the > > machine configuration would be really helpful. > > > > At the very worst, how about just some basic numbers so that I can get an > > idea of the order of magnitude I should expect - i.e. 100, 1000, 2000? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Scott > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Michael Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: mstover_ya ICQ: 152975688 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
