RE: This page is too large to be displayed

2007-08-09 Thread Christensen, Alan
and propose to set a max_response_size as a property. cheers, chris Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] et... I often get the message back this page is too large to be displayed when trying to view pages using the View Results Tree listener

This page is too large to be displayed

2007-08-03 Thread Christensen, Alan
I often get the message back this page is too large to be displayed when trying to view pages using the View Results Tree listener. Is there a way to configure the maximum size that can be displayed? Mine seems to start giving this message somewhere between 200KB and 300KB. I'd like to increase

RE: cookiemanager does not support using variables??

2007-08-01 Thread Christensen, Alan
I reported this issue several years ago. I don't think that this has ever been a feature of the cookie manager. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:41 AM To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: cookiemanager

RE: Can't adjust characters per second

2007-07-30 Thread Christensen, Alan
the fix for us. It would be nice if you could include the stack trace for 2.3rc, since that is where it is most likely we will fix the problem. The jmeter.properties file is only read on startup of JMeter. Regards Alf Hogemark Christensen, Alan wrote: Hi Sebb- Is there a library that I

RE: Can't adjust characters per second

2007-07-20 Thread Christensen, Alan
thread basis, or across all the threads cumulatively? Thanks, Alan -Original Message- From: Christensen, Alan Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:48 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Can't adjust characters per second I tried using the characters/second setting in the jmeter.properties

Can't adjust characters per second

2007-07-18 Thread Christensen, Alan
I tried using the characters/second setting in the jmeter.properties file. My recollection is that this only works with the commons HTTP client. Is that correct? When I set cps to 1 cps using the following statements in jmeter.properties httpclient.socket.http.cps=1

Problems with remote test execution

2007-07-11 Thread Christensen, Alan
I have a very slow connection via VPN to a remote jmeter server inside our corporate firewall. I would like to use this remote server to test a web server that is in the same proximity to the remote jmeter server. This will allow me to measure the web server response time without all the

RE: Errors on recording Gif's and Jpeg's

2007-07-02 Thread Christensen, Alan
This sort of behavior can occur when there are firewalls involved. If you have a website with the html pages being delivered from a server inside the firewall and the embedded content delivered from servers outside the firewall, then jmeter can record the references when recording, but may not be

RE: Page download time calculation from Aggregate graph report

2007-06-01 Thread Christensen, Alan
I doubt that jmeter does a good job of simulating content retrieval from the standpoint of being able to predict total response times for complete pages. Different browsers, (e.g., IE vs Firefox), have different rules with respect to how many parallel embedded content requests they will do when

RE: Distributed testing

2007-05-31 Thread Christensen, Alan
Actually I have done a fair amount of remote testing from a PC in my home. I VPN into work where we have a Unix machine that is the remote tester. The remote tester machine (running jmeter) is then used to test websites at work that aren't on the same subnet. The tricky part of this setup is

Strange hangup when trying to display html

2007-04-12 Thread Christensen, Alan
I've been using jmeter successfully for several years. I just ran into a strange problem. In our environment we have a web server with a WebLogic application server behind it. In the past I have always done my tests by accessing the web server. In one of our test environments, the web server

RE: JMeter: Windows Authentication

2006-12-27 Thread Christensen, Alan
The first https transaction that you attempt in a jmeter script will pop up a password box. The program is asking for the password for the java keystore. The password is changeit. If you go into your jmeter.properties file, you will find a line that tells jmeter that the java keystore

RE: Any way to get more response time breakdowns using Jmeter?

2006-12-19 Thread Christensen, Alan
. Thank you Jian Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/06 3:39 PM Hi Jian- Yes it would be very nice if they included latency in the summary. I only just found out recently that time to first byte was collected by jmeter because I didn't realize that they were using the word latency

RE: Any way to get more response time breakdowns using Jmeter?

2006-12-18 Thread Christensen, Alan
so much for your detailed explanation. As latency is even a better choice than elapased, shouldn't it be included in the 'summary report' and 'aggregate report' ? In this case, we can use both times for the measurement of the systems' performance. Thanks Jian Christensen, Alan [EMAIL

RE: Any way to get more response time breakdowns using Jmeter?

2006-12-15 Thread Christensen, Alan
are save field names and save sub results? -Original Message- From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 6:59 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Any way to get more response time breakdowns using Jmeter? On 14/12/06, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Any way to get more response time breakdowns using Jmeter?

2006-12-14 Thread Christensen, Alan
Most of the commercial testing tools provide a lot more information with respect to response time. For example, most of them report the response time to the first byte as well as the response time to the last byte. Breakdowns of DNS time and content downloads are also typically included. Does

RE: How to store Load time for a page in a variable?

2006-12-13 Thread Christensen, Alan
The information in the recent thread entitled Yet another extractor question should be of help for your problem. -Original Message- From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:54 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: How to store Load time for a page in a

RE: Yet another extractor question

2006-12-11 Thread Christensen, Alan
of the Post-Processors - that should fix it. S. On 09/12/06, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That solved my problem with the null pointer. Now the problem is that the beanshell script prev.setResponseMessage(${extractedTime}); appears to get executed before the regular expression

RE: Simple question but no answer

2006-12-11 Thread Christensen, Alan
Have you looked to see where the csv file gets stored on each of the jmeter servers? Perhaps there is a way to use relative addressing somehow in your original script to cause Jmeter to pull the data from a location other than the place where it stores the file (taking advantage of a bug). Or

RE: Yet another extractor question

2006-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:32 PM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Yet another extractor question On 06/12/06, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My returned html pages include a number in them that corresponds to the back end time that was associated with processing

RE: Yet another extractor question

2006-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
No. Where do I get it? -Original Message- From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:57 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Yet another extractor question Did you download the beanshell jar and put it in the lib directory? On 08/12/06, Christensen, Alan

RE: Yet another extractor question

2006-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
Message- From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:36 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Yet another extractor question This is mentioned in http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/get-started.html. www.beanshell.org On 08/12/06, Christensen, Alan

Yet another extractor question

2006-12-06 Thread Christensen, Alan
My returned html pages include a number in them that corresponds to the back end time that was associated with processing the transaction. I'd like to figure out how I can extract this number and then have the listeners log this number along with the other data logged for each transaction. Is

Simulating real browser behavior

2006-12-06 Thread Christensen, Alan
I have used Jmeter in the past to simply download html pages. I have never dealt with the problem of downloading embedded content. I know that the http sampler will allow me to force the download of embedded content by checking a box at the bottom. However, this does not result in behavior that

RE: Simulating real browser behavior

2006-12-06 Thread Christensen, Alan
explicitly in their own samplers? If this technique is used, then how would you combine the response times for the content items with the response time for the html page to get an overall response time? -Original Message- From: Christensen, Alan Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:40 PM

RE: 90% Time higher much higher than the Average???

2006-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
The best way to think about both median and 90% time is to imagine that the test has finished and that the samples have been placed in order based upon response time. The median would be computed by counting halfway through the list and taking the response time of the sample at that location.

RE: Jmeter crashing windows?

2006-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
Did you increase the heap size in the jmeter.bat file? Your machine may have a lot of memory in it, but you may not be taking advantage of it. I think the default for heap may be 256MB, as set in jmeter.bat. I'd make this value a bunch bigger if you haven't already. I have had problems with

RE: Jmeter crashing windows?

2006-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
with it. When you were having issues was JMeter crashing the whole machine, or just java? On 11/28/06, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you increase the heap size in the jmeter.bat file? Your machine may have a lot of memory in it, but you may not be taking advantage of it. I think

Multiple Response Assertions with or condition?

2006-11-25 Thread Christensen, Alan
I do a search on my website. This returns a list of URL's that correspond to documents matching the search criteria. I then select one of the URL's at random and display the document. Some of the documents are in html format. If this is the case, then the document will contain the ID of the

RE: Simulating network latency in Jmeter?

2006-11-07 Thread Christensen, Alan
- From: Christensen, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:34 PM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Simulating network latency in Jmeter? Is there a mechanism that simulates network latency in Jmeter? I want to be able to measure the response times

Simulating network latency in Jmeter?

2006-11-03 Thread Christensen, Alan
Is there a mechanism that simulates network latency in Jmeter? I want to be able to measure the response times that will be experienced by users who are a long ways from the website.

When to use which http sampler?

2005-12-09 Thread Christensen, Alan
I originally wrote all my scripts using the HTTP Request sampler. Now there is a second one that is called HTTP Request HTTPClient. What is the advantage of using one vs the other? So far the HTTP Request sampler has worked well for my tests except that the line speed property cannot be used

RE: Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas?

2005-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
looked at extending this to the default Http implementation, but it is non-trivial, and requires overriding the boot classpath, as one has to create a java.net class. S. On 28/11/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used Jmeter to test the effects of using page compression

RE: Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas?

2005-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
that. I believe he updated the docs in SVN, but the website hasn't been updated yet. if you download a nightly, the docs packaged in the tar/zip should have an explanation. peter On 12/8/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How exactly is this property set for various speeds? If I

RE: Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas?

2005-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
to the site. No impact of setting these parameters in either configuration. Any ideas? -Original Message- From: Christensen, Alan Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:45 AM To: JMeter Users List Subject: RE: Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas? The only lines that I

RE: Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas?

2005-12-08 Thread Christensen, Alan
respond with some tips peter On 12/8/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried setting these properties first to 6250 and later both to 100. Neither setting appeared to have any significant impact. (And, yes, I did get rid of the # in column 1) :-) I am using the December

Does Jmeter decode compressed html pages?

2005-11-29 Thread Christensen, Alan
I'm interested in testing the response time impact of turning on page compression. The website is currently configured to not compress pages. After enabling compression on the website, will Jmeter's html assertions continue to work, or will the assertions all fail because the returned html page

Testing the effect of page compression with Jmeter; Any gotchas?

2005-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
Has anyone used Jmeter to test the effects of using page compression vs not using page compression? Any gotchas that should be avoided, or best practices that will make this easier? What would you suggest be used to mimic slower connections?

RE: If Controller and user defined variables : problem of scope (value overwritten) ?

2005-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
I got around a similar problem by having a distinct thread group that immediately executed the initialization code when Jmeter started executing my script. I used delays in all the other thread groups to prevent them from starting up until after this was complete. Cludgy, but it worked for

RE: If Controller and user defined variables : problem of scope (value overwritten) ?

2005-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
and set them - but it seems to me that the separate thread group (or indeed a separate JMeter test plan?) is a good solution at present. S. On 28/11/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got around a similar problem by having a distinct thread group that immediately executed

RE: setting up timer for the whole Thread Group

2005-11-28 Thread Christensen, Alan
Add a simple controller at the end of the list of samplers in your thread group. Within this simple controller place a 5 minute constant timer and a single sampler (you must have a sampler within this controller for the delay to work). Set your thread group to run forever. This should exhibit

Best place to hide javascript?

2005-11-24 Thread Christensen, Alan
I use the following javascript to compute some time related variables: ${__javaScript((new Date()).getTime(),run_time)} , ${__javaScript(new Date(),run_date)} I then use ${run_time} and ${run_date} later in my script to establish unique emails and other unique information that I need.

How does remote test method deal with file locations?

2005-11-23 Thread Christensen, Alan
If you are using remote test machines, do the files that you use in your script need to be on the remote machine already, and if so, do you need to use relative addressing to file locations to ensure that the files are found?

Best way to search archives?

2005-11-23 Thread Christensen, Alan
I'd like to avoid posting questions to the user mailing list that have already been answered. What is the best way to search just the archives for prior threads that might relate to an issue in which I am interested? For example, all threads that relate to remote testing.

FW: How does remote test method deal with file locations?

2005-11-23 Thread Christensen, Alan
want a test script to run under both modes without any modification, you need use the same directory structure and absolute path. I tried with version 2.1.1. -Eric On 11/24/05, sebb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/11/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using remote

FW: Jmeter 2.1 unable to handle variables in Sampler names

2005-11-23 Thread Christensen, Alan
for me. S. On 21/11/05, Christensen, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried to upgrade to Jmeter 2.1 from version 2.0.3, I discovered that none of my scripts worked properly because variables don't get referenced properly if they are located in the Name field of an HTTP Sampler

Any way to send unique cookies for each thread in a thread group?

2005-11-21 Thread Christensen, Alan
I need to find a way to pass a unique cookie for each thread in a thread group. Does anyone know any mechanism that I can use to accomplish this via a Jmeter script? The 2.0.3 cookie manager does not support the usage of user parameters (or any variable) in the value field. It would also be

Jmeter 2.1 unable to handle variables in Sampler names

2005-11-21 Thread Christensen, Alan
When I tried to upgrade to Jmeter 2.1 from version 2.0.3, I discovered that none of my scripts worked properly because variables don't get referenced properly if they are located in the Name field of an HTTP Sampler. They remain as ${variableName}. I utilize variables in this field to make my