Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-23 Thread rob hinds
Thanks both, I am testing using jmeter on a master windows desktop with two slave injector machines, whilst my application is on an aix box. The tests running are request-response web services, so they send an xml soap message to an intergration layer, retieve a 'stubbed' response and then pass ba

Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-22 Thread Kirk
Hi sebb, The latency is time to first response. Is Rob not talking about latency in the call stack present in all of his requests? If there are a lot of large pages, that may not scale. If there are a lot of large pages JMeter, through no fault of it's own, wouldn't be able to mana

Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-22 Thread sebb
On 22/03/2008, Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rob hinds wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have been running some performance tests using jmeter (testing > > webservices) and the results i am receiving do not seem consistent. > > > > I am running http tests and writing the results to a csv file,

Re: Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-22 Thread Kirk
rob hinds wrote: Hi All, I have been running some performance tests using jmeter (testing webservices) and the results i am receiving do not seem consistent. I am running http tests and writing the results to a csv file, storing the timestamp and latency of each test. I am calculating the over

Thruput vs Latency inconsitency

2008-03-22 Thread rob hinds
Hi All, I have been running some performance tests using jmeter (testing webservices) and the results i am receiving do not seem consistent. I am running http tests and writing the results to a csv file, storing the timestamp and latency of each test. I am calculating the overall time of the tes