Re: jmeter memory leak?

2011-10-25 Thread Kirk
+1, the listeners will make it look as though there is a leak. Kirk On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Deepak Shetty wrote: follow instructions - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/best-practices.html#lean_mean Dont run GUI mode with listeners that use memory proportional to the number

Re: [GENERAL]Perf Testing on virtualized servers

2011-07-10 Thread Kirk
that generally means it sinks the company behind the project. That is my experience. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h

Re: [GENERAL]Perf Testing on virtualized servers

2011-07-08 Thread Kirk
offer very little if any difference in the performance of the production system. virtualization advice, advance at your own peril with this one ;-) Regards, Kirk On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Selvam T, Palani wrote: Kirk, Thanks for the points. I have gone through following links

Re: [GENERAL]Perf Testing on virtualized servers

2011-07-07 Thread Kirk
1) You cannot virtualize yourself into more hardware 2) prod != test environment == potential to shift bottlenecks. 3) not testing in the environment of deployment significantly increases the risk of the deployment failing I see no pro's Regards, Kirk On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Selvam T

new thread group

2011-06-29 Thread Kirk
. So question is, how to proceed? (or to proceed at all) Regards, Kirk

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-24 Thread Kirk
can hack out a new ThreadGroup that reflects what I think can be done in the short term. Regards, Kirk On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Felix Frank wrote: On 06/24/2011 01:37 AM, sebb wrote: It means, keep up the Y requests / time unit... and you cannot do that with JMeter or any other load test

Re: load time much different between jmeter and browser

2011-06-24 Thread Kirk
is load on the server so that you can study what is going on. So, you can take existing results and use them as a guide as to where to focus. Regards, Kirk On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:54 AM, vitospericolato wrote: Thanks Kirk for your answer but users navigate with browsers, not with jmeter

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:01 PM, sebb wrote: On 23 June 2011 11:06, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: One has to really be careful with JMeter's threading model. It has the potential to act as the bottleneck in your load test. I've seen a few teams chasing all kinds of things in the app

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
Hi Sebb, Happy to engage in a technical discussion. On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:34 PM, sebb wrote: On 23 June 2011 16:04, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:01 PM, sebb wrote: On 23 June 2011 11:06, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: One has to really be careful

Re: load time much different between jmeter and browser

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
JMeter != browser and if my understanding is correct, it was never intended to be. The idea is to place load on a server, not measure browser load times. Regards, Kirk On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:13 PM, vitospericolato wrote: Hi all, I'm new with jmeter. After writing my first plan, I noted

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
Hi Barrie, On Jun 24, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Barrie Treloar wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm expecting an incoming tx rate of 200 requests per second and JMeter doesn't have the threads to sustain it.. then I would consider JMeter

Re: best practices for jmeter on amazon ec2 aws cloud?

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
Beware of under networked cloud environments. It's one of the components that doesn't virtualize well and ti will affect reported results and ability to apply a consistent load. Regards, Kirk On Jun 24, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Oliver Lloyd wrote: Will, The fact is, running JMeter in the Cloud

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
to write, easy to understand but self throttling. Event base models are harder to understand, more difficult to implement but open by design and less likely to self throttle. Regards, Kirk regards deepak On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri

Re: determining ramp-up period

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:23 AM, jsheth wrote: Kirk, How do you determine 'the total test time? I generally test for 1 or 2 hours to start with. Some times longer but rarely shorter. Regards, Kirk Also, if jmeter shows issues which could be about connection pool - what

Re: Odd problem with performance of JMeter

2011-06-22 Thread Kirk
Try looking at GC logs to determine is GC is running hot. JMeter may need a lot more memory for this type of test. Regards, Kirk On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:16 PM, John Lussmyer wrote: We've been using JMeter for a while to do simple performance testing of some of our web services. We're running

Re: How are throughput and response time related?

2011-05-30 Thread Kirk
be used to help you sort out the concepts. Regards, Kirk Hey You will have to improve the system to get the same performance time (Even Google for that matter). If the system remains the same, and if you increase the number of request even by one, the response time will increase. You

Re: Out of memory almost immediately after start

2011-03-29 Thread Kirk
with the wrong versions of shared libraries. Though normally this causes the JVM to core dump, I guess it could cause other (strange) behaviors in the JVM. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr

Re: Out of memory almost immediately after start

2011-03-28 Thread Kirk
of memory or the default JMeter memory settings have been fiddled with (like stack size). Regards, Kirk On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Anthony Johnson wrote: We just had a similar thread related to this, but the problem is that Java itself does not have enough native memory left to create

Re: unique Source IP Address

2010-07-20 Thread Kirk
you can setup aliases.. however, I doubt that you're going to get enough aliases to get a decent load test. I question why you're equating a session to an IP address. Not saying you shouldn't, just it's unusual. Regards, Kirk On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Vikas Gupta (vikgupt2) wrote: I

Re: Clarification for TCPSampler - Throughput

2009-12-29 Thread kirk
. check server thread/connection pool size. Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org

Re: Big difference between non-gui and gui result ?

2009-10-19 Thread kirk
the system. If you do this I think you should see the responses time difference between headless and GUI disappear. In other words, this effect is due entirely to the harness and that is a sure fire sign that the harness is broken or mis configured. Good luck, Kirk

Re: Analyzing results: Load Time vs. Latency

2009-10-15 Thread kirk
. That said, time to first byte is also important as it point to a class of performance issues such as slow feeders. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: Executing JavaScript

2009-08-24 Thread kirk
a bit messy and it doesn't scale (as a development practice). Kind regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org

Re: JDBC Connection Config

2009-05-07 Thread kirk
that it will break at 6000 unless you test it at that load level? Why waste time running tests that will give you irrelevant information? Why not test at 6000 and if anything happens to break, then investigate? IME this is a much more effective way to test for performance requirements. Cheers, Kirk

Re: JDBC Connection Config

2009-05-07 Thread kirk
! Regards, Kirk Cheers, Himanshu On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM, kirk k...@kodewerk.com wrote: Himanshu Ghai wrote: Why take the low road. If the requirement is for 6000, test for 6000. If it works, you're done without all the extra testing. i differ, if the system isn't deployed yet

Re: JDBC Connection Config

2009-05-06 Thread kirk
a different problem Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org

Re: Weird pause

2009-04-21 Thread kirk
. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h...@jakarta.apache.org

Re: Running JMeter virtualised instances

2009-02-26 Thread kirk
stack and in doing so injects more latency into already latent laden activity. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h

Re: Use jmeter in multiple CPUs

2009-02-26 Thread kirk
JMeter for this stress test as the application used Mina and Mina/JMeter don't seem to mix well. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: jmeter-user-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jmeter-user-h

Re: Use jmeter in multiple CPUs

2009-02-25 Thread kirk
Hi Toni, Something appears to be artificially throttling your threads. Can you create a thread dump? kill -QUIT pid should do it. I've not seen RH limit threads to this extent, not without seeing system times significantly higher. Regards, Kirk Toni Menendez Lopez wrote: 1st.- CPU usage

Re: thread group thread behavior

2008-12-05 Thread kirk
sebb wrote: On 05/12/2008, kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sebb, I guess I should add my work around is to set the thread count for the thread group to some wild a$$ large value, set the ramp-up time to the duration that I'd like the test to run, and then set the loop count to 1 which

Re: thread group thread behavior

2008-12-05 Thread kirk
sebb wrote: On 05/12/2008, kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi sebb, These are actualy jsessionid's. For the test I used 2 samplers in the thread with only 3 threads. I was looking for the information in the tree listener and it correlated with what the server was saying. I don't know

Re: thread group thread behavior

2008-12-05 Thread kirk
started going *weird* in an attempt to work around the problem. I think what I need to do next is post a test servlet along with a test plan. The application that I'm currently using is a wee bit too big to post. Regards, Kirk Here is the output from my test servlet. The thread

Re: thread group thread behavior

2008-12-04 Thread kirk
jsession assigned to each sampler request. I'm using the latest release. I'll turn on debug to see if I can figure out whats happening. Regards, Kirk sebb wrote: On 03/12/2008, kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking at providing a particular load pattern on a server. When I wasn't

Re: thread group thread behavior

2008-12-04 Thread kirk
distribution. Best would be a new type of thread group I'd call a throughput thread group. Something where I could specify a inter- new user arrival rate with a distribution. Something that works similarilly to the hack that I'm currently using only better. Regards, Kirk sebb wrote: On 03/12/2008, kirk

thread group thread behavior

2008-12-03 Thread kirk
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Re: Apache JMeter book

2008-07-21 Thread kirk
PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I reviewed it. Very beginnerish in nature. The review will be out in a week or so. Regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: HTTP Req defaults combined Random contr.

2008-07-19 Thread kirk
clients in 3 groups and have each group hit a different server. Regards, Kirk Magnus Olstad Hansen wrote: Hello, I'm trying to stress test a server net where we have 3 webserver nodes. Loadbalancing is done by our client side application (that is, each client randomly selects which

Re: 3600 Threads with a rampup of 3600 seconds?

2008-07-10 Thread kirk
diagnosing the problem at this load. Regards, Kirk Abel sebb-2-2 wrote: On 09/07/2008, Abel MacAdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today I tried to emulate 3600 users in one hour by making a test where 3600 threads where started in 3600 seconds. I observed that the load in one of my

Re: 3600 Threads with a rampup of 3600 seconds?

2008-07-10 Thread kirk
you won't get the resource consumption that you'd see in a real system. Thanks for the links though. I might add a shameless plug for www.javaperformancetuning.com. Regards, Kirk So basically, what you are emulating is number of different HTTP Sampler calls per second. With JMeter, you could

Re: more on beanshell

2008-07-09 Thread kirk
a local jmeter.properties would just about fit the bill. Do you know if this command line option would do it? -p, --propfile {argument}. TIA, Kirk sebb wrote: On 08/07/2008, kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tend to test many websites so keeping beanshell scripts in the jmeter distro

Re: external java script function

2008-07-08 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
Hi, I've not found a good way to run JavaScript. Many of the interesting scripts rely on the DOM. JMeter doesn't have a DOM The best I've been able to do if figure out what is needed from the JS and use BeanShell to make it work. Regards, Kirk On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Andrey Beznogov

more on beanshell

2008-07-08 Thread kirk
Hi, I tend to test many websites so keeping beanshell scripts in the jmeter distro doesn't allow me to keep things as organized as I'd like them to be. Does anyone know of some way to set an alternate directory for the pre, post, and sampler beanshell scripts? Regards, Kirk

Re: Branching in tests

2008-07-07 Thread kirk
, some of the most useful books that I've read have been short. Does Emily happen to monitor this list? If so, it could be useful to have some contact prior to publishing. Regards, Kirk Pepperdine - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Understanding How to Twiddle Values in JMeter

2008-04-12 Thread Kirk
only straight HTTP/HTML. Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-23 Thread Kirk
to manage as bandwidth to the client would be the biggest issue. Question I have was, what was different between the two runs? Kind regards, Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-22 Thread Kirk
thing you've done by reducing the load is you've reduced the latency. IOWs, you're beyond the knee Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine Thanks in advance Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

beanshell/JSON

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
and picky??? Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beanshell/JSON

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk
of instances and I'd like to only change this for one of them. Again, trolling about in the documentation wasn't so helpful. but then, it could very well just be me. ;-) Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: beanshell/JSON

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk
they give me. What do you mean by verbosity? If you mean logging level, have a look in jmeter.properties. Yes, loggging level is what I mean. But, I'd rather be able to set it on the command line. Thanks for you assistance. Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine

Re: beanshell/JSON

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk
Hi sebb Just edit jmeter.properties and add the relevant content-type to content-type_text ok, when I was spinning through the code I remembered the text mime types as being baked into the sampler. I see that this isn't the case. Thanks, Kirk