Hi Paul,
from the mails last week my enlighten understanding of the scheduler
behaviour is that you use either "Start/End time" or "Start Delay and
Duration". Entering a Duration and Start Delay has precedence over the
Start/End time , effectively ignoring them.
I have not tried this but suggest you leave the Duration and Start delay
blank, set the start time to now + 5 minutes and the end time to now + 125
minutes. This should roughly give you a 2 hour test.
Don't quote me but I think this means that no new iterations will be started
by a thread after the end time.
Hope this helps
A
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Leclerc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 December 2004 00:18
To: JMeter Users List
Subject: How does Thread Group scheduler *really* work?
After this recent spate of emails about the thread group scheduler, I
decided to try it yet again.
I'm using Jmeter 2.0.2 (not from CVS), java 1.4.2_04 on Windows Server 2003.
I have one (1) thread group.
I leave Loop Count: forever *unchecked* though it doesn't seem to matter. I
check Scheduler. Start Time, I put ANY time/date in the future (minutes,
hours, days from now), doesn't matter End Time, I put ANY time/date later
than the start time
Duration: I put 7200 (I want it to run for 2 hours)
Startup Delay: 1 (based on previous emails)
I then select Run->Start and it starts the test immediately and starts
hitting the URLs in the test plan. The startup time is ignored. I tried
just letting it sit there w/o hitting Run->Start thinking that the scheduler
will start it. That doesn't work.
Am I doing this correctly? I looked at the User Manual but the section on
the scheduler was pretty slim ;-)
I'd be willing to grab a newer version from CVS if I knew the correct CVS
tag containing the fixes Sebb mentioned a few days ago. The nightly builds
seem to be very old.
I really need to be able to schedule some longer running tests but have
never been able to get this to work. Any clues?
Paul Leclerc
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