On 18 October 2011 04:27, Bruce Ide <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually give it 2gb but you could probably give it 3gb or even more if all > that's running is Jmeter. > > No matter how much you give it, it's never enough. > > The biggest offender in memory consumption is the "view results tree" > listener. If you disable that in0 high-memory tests, you'll probably find > that you have no more memory problems. If you're doing a huge image or > something with jmeter, the view results tree listener will hold on to the > image for the entire test. If you're downloading several large images or the > same one multiple times, you will quickly run out of memory.
Yes, and the Table Listener also has to keep details of each sample. See: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/best-practices.html#lean_mean > My one test that does something like that uses two listeners that write > successful and failed requests to disk. I can just fire it up and if I see > any failed requests then I know my test failed. See also http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Generate_Summary_Results which shows error counts. > -- > Bruce Ide > [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]

