Are you sure you want to do that? It sounds very complicated, which is usually an indicator that you should try to simplify your test.
I'm not sure this is even possible with a stock jmeter install, The thread synchronization timer provides for some basic thread blocking, but it may not be flexible enough for what you're trying to do. Before I learned about the synchronization timer, I wrote a plugin that might be flexible enough to handle this. The source and jar file are at https://github.com/FlyingRhenquest/JmeterThreadSync. With my addon, you'd create two config elements, one for the thread groups that run on even times, and one for the thread groups that need to run every third time. Ignoring the fact that TG5 needs to run in either case for the moment, you'd set the even config element to the number "3" (There will be 3 threads running when they need to run) and put checkpoints at the beginning of the two threads that will be waiting. For the third-time threads, you'd set the config element number to "4" and put checkpoints at the beginning of the three threads that will be waiting. Then in your main thread you'd just maintain a counter, test the counter, and use a checkpoint to release the appropriate threads depending on whether it's even or every third time. TG5 is a bit of a problem since it needs to run for both, but you could maintain a flag in the thread group that would oscillate between two values. It would start at 1 and when it's 1 it could set itself to 2 and then block on the even checkpoint. When it's 2 it would set itself to 1 and block on the odd checkpoint. If you get it working correctly it would probably be a beautiful machine, like a car engine, with lots of moving parts, that is impossible to explain the workings of to anyone who doesn't understand why a car engine is beautiful. -- Bruce Ide flyingrhenqu...@gmail.com
