The 'Number of Simulated Users to Group by' must be a FACTOR of the count of
threads (users) in the relevant Thread Group. That's a given, without this
you will always get the behaviour you describe - without any kind of timeout
feature this is logical and easily solved by ensuring a factor or the user
count is used. 

But. I think there is an odd bug here where the first grouping of users is
sometimes too low. It's proper intermittent, sometimes it happens, sometimes
not, so I can only surmise it is related to the timestamp and maybe some
sort of rounding error?

Try:

Thread Group - 12 Users, 16 Sec Ramp Up, 1 Iteration
--Dummy Sampler
----Synch Timer - Group By 3 (3 is a factor of 12)

About 50% of the time when I run this, the 1st group to get fired off in
synch is only composed of 2 users, not 3. This results in one poor orphan
user waiting for some friends to come along and the test does not terminate.
The rest of the time each synch group is correctly made up of 3 users and
the test completes cleanly so it's not a disaster but anyone aiming for more
complex control with this Timer might fall prey to this problem.

Can't see any other relevant defects on this so I raised 
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52185 Bug 52185 . 


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