On 13/03/2009, Abel MacAdam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Can someone explain to me what happens when I open a page containing > streaming media (a flash movie) in JMeter? > > In a normal JMeter session I think you test something like (sort of) a > (string of) request - response combination(s). So each time JMeter goes to > the library (the request), it fetches a book (the response). With streaming > media however, you send JMeter to the library, then asks the librarian to be > read from the book. And if I am going to test what load the streaming media > server can support, I'm sending many persons concurrently requesting to be > read from the book. And to me, fetching a book is not so though as asking to > be read from the book.
JMeter will wait until the GET request has completed. I'm not sure if this behaves differently for streaming media. > Now back to JMeter. What if I have a thread group with 1000 threads, to be > started in 10 seconds, looping forever. 1000 threads may be too many for one system. > Back to my question: If I test a connection with a streaming media server, > what do I do? Fetch 1000 books every 10 seconds, or request 1000 librarians > to read me a book every 10 seconds? Again, what are you trying to prove? > Abel > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Follow-up-on-streaming-media-tp22496310p22496310.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]
