why not use the OS scheduling capabilities for these requirements?. You need a way to startup jmeter anyway (irrespective of the threadgroup scheduler)
regards deepak On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The use case I'm trying to cover is "Let's run the test at 2am tonight". > If a SimpleDateFormat is supported, then it's a bit more intuitive to pass > in a human readable date than the calculated the difference (number of > seconds) between now and 2am or the Unix Epoch time. > > Let me know if I'm missing something. > > --- On Mon, 10/5/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format > To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org> > Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 7:32 PM > > On 05/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification. So I am curious as to how to define a > specific start time (as opposed to "now") in non-gui mode from a shell > script.. I have managed to leverage the unix date command and calculated > the epoch in ms that way, but it's a bit clunky, relying on the correct date > format. Then I passed the calculated epoch into JMeter as a property > defined in my test plan. > > > > Is this the best practice? How do other users do this (or everyone just > uses "now") ? > > > > I was hoping there is something similar to a "--date" command line > option accepting a SimpleDateFormat. > > > > Just want to make sure I didn't miss an obvious or more straight-forward > solution. > > If you can easily calculate the time difference, why not use a > property to define the startup delay, and pass that in instead? > > > > > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format > > To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org> > > > > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 9:50 PM > > > > > > On 02/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Does this mean the timestamp format in jmeter.properties applies to > both the csv output > > > AND parsing a thread group's start_time property? This is what I > have: > > > > No it doesn't apply to the start_time property. > > > > Sorry, I misread your original question. > > > > You can only use milliseconds in the JMX file. > > > > > jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss > > > > > > and in my test plan: > > > <stringProp > name="ThreadGroup.start_time">${__P(submit_start,1254374051000)}</stringProp> > > > > > > But when I invoke jmeter: > > > ../jmeter -n -t ./HelloWorld.jmx -l ./HelloWorld.jtl > -Jsubmit_start="2009/10/02 13:42:11" > > > An error occurred: Unknown arg: 13:42:11" > > > > > > Look like the error is caused by the space between the date and time > eventhough the value is quoted. > > > > > > Is this possible or do I have to resort to epoch? > > > > > > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com> > > > Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format > > > To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org> > > > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 8:52 AM > > > > > > > > > On 02/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Let me clarify that the question is regarding defining the start > and end time in the test plan (i.e. not in the gui). > > > > > > > > In my test plan: > > > > <longProp > name="ThreadGroup.start_time">1243889520000</longProp> > > > > <longProp > name="ThreadGroup.end_time">1243889499000</longProp> > > > > > > > > Can I use string for SimpleDateFormat instead? > > > > > > Not when using XML format. However, in CSV format you can, see > > > > > > jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp > > > > > > > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> > > > > Subject: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format > > > > To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org > > > > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:37 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible to specify thread group start and end time in > SimpleDateFormat instead of epoch? Similar to how result timestamps support > both formats. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org > > > > > >