Hello,

I want to measure the utilization of my resources for different request rates. 
For example my measurements will be:

1st measurement: 100 requests/s over 30 min
2nd measurement: 200 requests/s over 30 min

and so on

Until now I used constant throughput timer with the option
all active threads (together). I used a stepping thread group 
from jp@gc plugin with:

start 1000 threads
First wait for 0s
Then start 1000 threads every 20s
using ramp-up 5s
Then hold load for 1800s
Finally stop 1000 threads every 20s

As listener I use sumary report and show results in table.
If I use the constant throughput timer with 18000 requests/minute,
the throughput in summary report is 333,33 requests/s (constant)
instead of 300 requests/s as wished. Even with 16000 requests/minute
the throughput goes up to 333,33 requests/second.

Could someone explain, why this is the case? 

I just want to have constant 300 requests/s over 30 minutes, 
the rate should not alter between e.g. 280 and 320.
For 50, 100, 200 requests/s everything worked fine, but now with 300 requests/s
it goes up to 333 requests/s in the end. The avg. latency of my requests is 5 
ms. 

It didn't work, so I took jp@gc Throughput shaping timer. 
Now my summary report displays 296,6 requests/s in the end (and during the 
whole measurement). 
This is ok , BUT now the load of the server goes up from
0,03 at the beginning to 3,05 (15 min), 4,14 (5 min), 5,00 (1 min).

This was not the case without the plugin. In this case the load value was 
at 0,7 (15 min) at the end. The avg CPU utilization for both cases is 30%,
the avg. network send / rec is only at 200-400 K, free RAM only goes down from 
700 MB free to 400 MB free in these 30 minutes. Everything is nearly the same
in both cases, except the load value. 

Can someone please explain, why the load rises to this extend compared to the 
constant 
throughput timer?

Later I want to shape the request rate, eg. from 100 to 1000 and back to 100 
requests/s.
So I need the throughput shaper, but I want to have a normal load value. 
How can I achieve this?
Is there another throughput shaper for my case?


Thanks a lot!

Best regards
Birgit

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