On 08/04/2009, Sonam Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! Just wanted to hold up some strange behaviour - the __counter()
>  function apparently skipped a value. This isn't a big problem for me but
>  did cause a false load testing EAI publish-subscribe middleware :-)
>
>
>
>  A 'User Parameters' sampler was used to setup a counter variable as
>  follows:
>
>  ---------------------------------------
>
>  User Parameters (positioned at top of test plan - 'above' thread group)
>
>  Name=(empty)                           User_1 =
>  ${__counter(FALSE,count)}

Using Name=count and User_1=${__counter(FALSE)} would be the usual way
to do this.

>  'Update Once Per Iteration' -- ticked
>
>  ---------------------------------------
>
>
>
>  ${count} is then used in HTTP samplers to get a unique counter value in
>  each JMeter thread.
>
>
>
>  The test plan has 417 threads in a single thread group with one
>  iteration only. However, 'View Results Tree' shows the value of ${count}
>  used in the sampler going like this:
>
>  1,2,4,5,6 ... 417,418       (i.e. the ${count} skipped 3)
>

Does this happen repeatably?

>
>  Regards,
>
>  Sonam Chauhan
>
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