It might be useful to look at the min/max response times in the two cases.

The cheapest way to do this is to add a Summariser Post-Processor -
this will generate summaries to the log every 3 minutes. The summary
includes the min/max and average times.

As to why you are seeing the difference - could there be some kind of
caching occurring?

How long do you run the test for?

How many threads in each Thread group? How many loops?

S.
On 06/05/06, Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am getting inconsistent results when I run a test multiple times without
restarting jmeter between trials.  I'm trying to see the maximum throughput
I can get from a web server, so my test layout is simply two thread groups
which repeatedly access a page on the server.

The first time I run this test I get about 550req/sec throughput.  If I
repeat the test without exiting jmeter (ie. I just clear the results and hi=
t
run again) I get a rate of almost 1000 req/sec.  From then on, I will
consistently get about 1000req/sec.  This is "consistently inconsistent" in
that if I exit jmeter and restart it, I will get the same pattern - one ver=
y
poor run followed by almost 2x increase in performance.  I also find that i=
f
I run the test using the non-gui mode of jmeter I will consistently get the
low rate.

Does anyone have any ideas of why this might be occuring?  I'm only barely
maxing out the server I am benchmarking when I get 1000 req/sec, so it does
not seem like a limitation of the server in any way.  My client and server
are both linux 2.4ghz with 1gb ram, using java 1.5 and jmeter 2.1.1.

Any ideas?  Thanks!

-Tim



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