I'd also suggest looking at the option of driving jmeter from ant, we find this works incredibly well.
> On 11/04/07, SunWuKung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sure, thread count could be increased by whatever number, not necessary >> by 1. >> I was hoping to find an automated way of doing this to avoid cut and >> paste >> and having to do that manually again when something relevant changes. >> >> Does this mean that it is possible to automate this task from outside >> JMeter? >> e.g. execute JMeter from a batch like jmeter -Jthreads=X and have its >> results output in a file? > > Yes, see: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/get-started.html#non_gui > > for command-line options. > > >> Thx. >> SWK >> >> >> sebb-2 wrote: >> > >> > Well put. >> > >> > The thread count, ramp-up and loop counts can be defined using >> properties >> > - e.g. >> > >> > ${__P(threads)} >> > ${__P(rampup)} >> > ... >> > >> > jmeter -Jthreads=10 -Jrampup=5 etc >> > >> > S. >> > On 11/04/07, Matthew Coventon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sorry I sent an incomplete email by accident. Let me reiterate: >> >> >> >> My approach to this is to not automate it in JMeter. Generally you >> don't >> >> need such a fine granularity. For example if you estimate that your >> >> system >> >> can handle up to 100 concurrent users you don't need to know how a >> page >> >> performs for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 97, 98, 99, 100. Instead test with >> 1, >> >> 10, >> >> 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 concurrent users. >> >> >> >> In general for a target load X, do: >> >> - Single user. >> >> - Benchmark at 10 or 15% of X >> >> - Load test at 25% of X >> >> - Load test at 50% of X >> >> - Load test at 75% of X >> >> - Load test at 100% of X >> >> - Load test at 125% of X >> >> >> >> That's only seven tests and is sufficient information to create a >> >> degradation curve. For more info check out this document: >> >> http://www.perftestplus.com/resources/UENM10.pdf >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Matt C. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Matthew Coventon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:01 AM >> >> To: 'JMeter Users List' >> >> Subject: RE: cuncurrency - responsetime chart >> >> >> >> My approach to this is to not automate it in JMeter. Generally you >> don't >> >> need such a fine granularity. For example if you estimate that your >> >> system >> >> can handle up to 100 concurrent users you don't need to know how a >> page >> >> performs for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 97, 98, 99, 100. Instead test with >> 1, >> >> 10, >> >> 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 concurrent users. >> >> >> >> In general for a target load X test: >> >> - Single user. >> >> - Benchmark at 10 or 15% of X >> >> - Load test at 25% of X >> >> - Load test at 25% of X >> >> - Load test at 25% of X >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: SunWuKung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:43 AM >> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subject: Re: cuncurrency - responsetime chart >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for this, but ... >> >> As you say the ramp-up gradually increase the load, so when I look up >> the >> >> response time for a page I can only have a rough idea what the other >> >> threads >> >> are doing at that time. What i would like to look up is how the >> response >> >> time is changing when everybody else is requesting the same given >> page. >> >> >> >> Is it possible to do something like >> >> - put the whole test in a loop >> >> - add a counter >> >> - replace the numbe of users with the counter value >> >> - store counter value and response time? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> SWK >> >> >> >> >> >> sebb-2 wrote: >> >> > >> >> > You could use the ramp-up time feature to gradually increase the >> load. >> >> > >> >> > S >> >> > On 11/04/07, SunWuKung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I would like to create a chart that shows the response time of a >> page >> >> >> depending on the number of concurrent users. >> >> >> I guess I need to first create a thread group with 1 user and run >> the >> >> >> test, >> >> >> than with 2 users ... and so on. >> >> >> Is there a way to automate this and collect the data? >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for the answer. >> >> >> SWK >> >> >> -- >> >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> >> >> http://www.nabble.com/cuncurrency---responsetime-chart-tf3557633.html#a99341 >> >> 15 >> >> >> Sent from the JMeter - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> http://www.nabble.com/cuncurrency---responsetime-chart-tf3557633.html#a99397 >> >> 69 >> >> Sent from the JMeter - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/cuncurrency---responsetime-chart-tf3557633.html#a9941671 >> Sent from the JMeter - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
