You want to read more on "ramp up period" on the Thread Group. With 400 users and a "ramp up" of 400 seconds, you'll start a new user each second over 400 seconds. Ramp up of 4,000 seconds will start one new user each 10 seconds, but it will take a bit over an hour to start all the users.
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/jmeter_distributed_testing_step_by_step.pdf will explain how to spread the JMeter load over several machines, preventing the client cpu-bottleneck you are fearing. > -----Original Message----- > From: SkyLiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Website Test-Values > > > Hi, > > Thanks but your answere doesn't help me. > Like i wrote, this (the article) is exactly what i did and its working > fine! > I understand what the values are for, but i dont have experience in > testing. > So i dont know which values make sense for a website with max. 400 > users at > the same time. They wont all do a request at the same time i guess. > And there is nothing about where to run the test and a possible lan / > client > cpu bottleneck in the article. > > Can someone with experience please help me with the values? :confused: > > > > > Hi, > > as usual, you should start by reading the first few sections of the > user manual. You should at least read the "Building a Web Test Plan" > > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html > > All your questions are answered there and in other beginners sections > of the manual. > > Regards, > Andrey > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Website-Test- > Values-tp20602785p20603922.html > 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]
