On 11/11/2010 10:55 AM, J.E.C.Brisland wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is what I want to do. (Please bear with me... I have a hard time trying > to put my thoughts into words) > > I have a whole bunch of forum discussions, and posts within those discussions. > > What I want to do is populate a CSV with the id's of the discussions and > posts information. > > What I then want to do is have a thread in that is controlled with a > throughput controller to make new discussions or replys to current posts > using a random id from either the posts or discussions csv. (It will randomly > either make a new post or reply to one that already exists) > > I did initially have a thread that looked at the discussions page, found a > random discussion using a regex, then found a random post within that > discussion to make a reply to, but because this was controlled by a > throughput controller this made the process too slow.
The Timer is not at fault. If the process is too slow because of the Timer, configure it for a higher throughput (see below). If Jmeter cannot extract the regexes fast enough, well, that is not a Timer problem either. > From what I can understand this is how the throughput controller works > > I have 60 users in the reply thread group (ramping up one per second) > > The first user fires a request to find a random discussion (1 of my 2 > requests per minute) > During the next 30 seconds half of the user threads are fired up... they also > go to do a request to get a random discussion, but cannot because of the > throughput controller. This statement makes me believe you're using the Timer wrongly. If each and every thread should make 2 requests per minute, tell the Timer so. Set it to calculate throughput based on "This thread only". This way, 60 users will make 120 requests per minute in total. > Next one of the newly started user threads is able to make a request to find > a random discussion > > It seems to me that it is never able to get onto actually doing a posts as > there are enough users in this thread group to saturate it with just finding > a discussion id / post id > > Basically for me to control how many posts are made per second I have to have > a dedicated thread that just does the form posting, and another thread that > gets the data and stores it in a csv file so that the thread doing the form > posting can get some random data out. > > Here is the setup I currently have > > Reply Thread Group > -- ThroughPut Controller - 2 per minute (all active threads in current thread > group (shared)) Why? See above. > -- Find Random Discussion (HTTP Request to main forum page w/regex to find > discussion id) > -- Find Random Post (HTTP Request to discussion page w/regex to find post id) > -- View Random Post Form (HTTP Request to reply form page w/regex to forum > details like user id, draft flag etc) > -- Post Reply Form (HTTP Request to reply form page w/post data) > > Here is the setup I think I need > > Data Thread Group > -- ThroughPut Controller - 10 per minute (all active threads in current > thread group (shared)) > Loop through all discussions > Loop through all posts > Write data to CSV with discussion/post info for the Reply thread group to use > > Reply Thread Group > -- ThroughPut Controller - 2 per minute (all active threads in current thread > group (shared)) > -- Post Reply Form (HTTP Request to reply form page w/random post data from > csv file) > > > I'm sorry that this is such a long email... I just wish I had someone in my > workplace that actually understood jMeter, instead of being the guinea pig > trying to make scripts work. I noticed you solved this, but I'd like to know what the misunderstanding was here... Cheers, Felix --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
