Hi - Just an update on this issue... The VMWare image of my PC was setup yesterday. My PC is a hyperthreaded 3.2 GHz P4 that presents 2 CPUs in Windows task manager (due to hyperthreading). The VMWare P2V (physical to virtual) process transferred it across to ESX Server as a dual 4GHz Xeon (since that ESX server runs on Xeons). The load test then ran successfully on the Windows VMWare image within the normal time (an hour) and with no out-of-memory memory errors. The VMWare system admin then informed me that the previous two Linux virtuals I tried this load tests on had a single virtual CPU each. After he 'added' a virtual 4GHz Xeon to the tst1app27 virtual, I could successfully run the same load tests that always failed earlier with out of memory errors (see emails below).
I really don't have conclusions about this, but apparently, adding the second virtual CPU turned failure into success on VMware. Kind regards, Sonam Chauhan -- Corporate Express Australia Ltd. Phone: +61-2-93350725, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Sonam Chauhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 8:37 PM To: JMeter Users List Subject: RE: OutOfMemoryError with stacktrace. Yes, it's not an apples to apples comparison. If I get a chance to test with XP on ESX or RHEL on real hardware, I'll let youse know. Kind regards, Sonam Chauhan -- Corporate Express Australia Ltd. Phone: +61-2-93350725, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 8:32 PM To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: OutOfMemoryError with stacktrace. However, the comparison is not just about VMWare. It would be interesting to see what happened if you ran Windows XP in VMWare. Or RHEL on real hardware. But those might take a lot of effort to set up. The GC flags are mentioned in the jmeter.bat file. On 28/09/2007, Sonam Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Sebb. I'll look into JVM 1.6 on XP and maybe GC tracing on the > JVMs (I am not much of an expert in that, I'm afraid). > > My gut feel is this level of load testing simply is too much for VMWare > to handle. > > I now run multiple load tests on two different Redhat/VMWare virtuals - > one with JVM 1.5 and the other with JVM 1.6. On both systems, the load > tests took 2 + hours (compared to less than an hour on real hardware), > and threw out of memory errors even after increasing JVM heap memory (to > 1536 MB). The same load tests ran fine on my Windows XP 'real' hardware > box. > > This is after increasing the ESX server 'RAM' and 'CPU MHz' allocations > to match my 'real' box. > > > Kind regards, > Sonam Chauhan > -- > Corporate Express Australia Ltd. > Phone: +61-2-93350725, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 8:12 PM > To: JMeter Users List > Subject: Re: OutOfMemoryError with stacktrace. > > On 28/09/2007, Sonam Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello - > > > > > > > > I'm currently running JMeter 2.1.1 with Sun JVM 1.6 on RHEL ES 4 Linux > > on VMWare ESX server, and am struggling with out of memory errors > > running JMeter. > > > > Might be a garbage collection issue? > > Perhaps you could enable GC tracing on the JVMs, and compare the two > systems. > > > > > The same tests running on a Windows XP box (Sun JVM 1.5) don't throw > out > > of memory errors. > > What about JVM 1.6 on XP? > > > > > Here's 'top' output of the process : > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > > > > > 24733 metatest 25 0 977m 150m 6320 S 99.2 4.0 16:20.65 java > > > > > > > > Normally I get errors with no stacktrace: > > > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > > > > > > > > However, upping the JVM max. heap memory to 1.5 GB, gave of memory > error > > with a stacktrace (see end of email). Is this significant or useful? > > > > I don't think so. > > It just shows that the JVM ran out of memory trying to log a message. > > This was just "the straw that broke the camel's back", The rest of the > straw was loaded previously by other parts of the test. > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Sonam Chauhan > > > > -- > > > > Corporate Express Australia Ltd. > > > > Phone: +61-2-93350725, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > STACKTRACE > > > > > > > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > > > > at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882) > > > > at > > > java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.jav > > a: > > > > 100) > > > > at > > java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:390) > > > > at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:224) > > > > at java.io.StringWriter.write(StringWriter.java:95) > > > > at java.io.PrintWriter.write(PrintWriter.java:412) > > > > at java.io.PrintWriter.write(PrintWriter.java:429) > > > > at java.io.PrintWriter.print(PrintWriter.java:559) > > > > at java.io.PrintWriter.println(PrintWriter.java:695) > > > > at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(Throwable.java:512) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.format.PatternFormatter.getStackTrace(PatternFormatter.ja > > va > > > > :638) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.format.PatternFormatter.formatPatternRun(PatternFormatter > > .j > > > > ava:519) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.format.PatternFormatter.format(PatternFormatter.java:493) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.output.AbstractOutputTarget.format(AbstractOutputTarget.j > > av > > > > a:189) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.output.AbstractOutputTarget.doProcessEvent(AbstractOutput > > Ta > > > > rget.java:148) > > > > at > > > org.apache.log.output.AbstractTarget.processEvent(AbstractTarget.java:14 > > 5) > > > > at org.apache.log.Logger.fireEvent(Logger.java:708) > > > > at org.apache.log.Logger.output(Logger.java:683) > > > > at org.apache.log.Logger.output(Logger.java:666) > > > > at org.apache.log.Logger.error(Logger.java:267) > > > > at > > org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:298) > > > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
