Is there a way to specify a timeout on a http sampler? During load testing I am seeing the majority of my page requests being serviced in less than 2 seconds. Occasionally however a request takes much longer (several minutes or worse no response ever received). I would like to be able to put a limit on how long jmeter waits for outstanding requests. I found a post to this emailing list in March 2004:
I found a working solution for my timeout-problem: Java 1.4 has got a property 'sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout'. This can be set to a appropriate value and raises a 'java.io.IOExcetion: Stream closed' instead of waiting infinitely. Just set this property in the jmeter.bat as a java parameter by 'java -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=1000 ...' for a 1 second timeout for example. Is this the way I should proceed or is there another way to solve the problem? Angelo.
