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]
>

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