I'd be happy to add comments to Robin's the page as there were some very 
interesting points brought out during the discussion.

I might add that jerky behavior in the GUI is very characteristic of thread 
stalls in the server.

Regards,
Kirk

On Dec 16, 2011, at 7:34 PM, sebb wrote:

> On 16 December 2011 17:49, Robin D. Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, I (well, actually one of our operations guys) figured out what the
>> problem was... Someone had enabled the 'iptables' service (Linux Firewall)
>> on our Apache box (unbeknownst to me), and it was parsing all the packets
>> (even though it never hit a filter rule). So with the massively increased
>> network load, it eventually just started dropping packets for a while.
>> 
>> Disabling the iptables service completely solved the problem.
>> 
>> Thank you all for giving me so many things to check and test - I will use
>> all of your input for expanding my knowledge of JMeter and testing systems
>> in the future.
> 
> Thanks for letting us know the problem has been solved.
> 
> Anyone care to provide a write-up for the Wiki?
> Not specifically about the details of this case, but the sort of
> things to look for and how to check?
> Symptoms and possible causes, that sort of thing.
> 
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