So what is meant by "Don't use functional mode" at 
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/best-practices.html#lean_mean ?

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On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Bruno Antunes wrote:

> How many threads does JMeter support?
> http://wiki.apache.org/jmeter/HowManyThreads
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> Bruno Antunes
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> 
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Anthony Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I agree with everyone else about the 300-400 thread count being a good
>> limit for JMeter.  I have taken JMeter above those values, but you are
>> playing in Out of Memory territory.
>> 
>> Even if you get the test to execute, 6,000 threads are simply going to
>> compete for resources and yield unreliable results on a single
>> machine.
>> 
>> You either need to re-think your test plan to use less threads or
>> scale out the test to use multiple machines.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Anthony
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Flavio Cysne <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> We used to execute distributed testing using JMeter agent (jmeter -s)
>>> loading almost 400 threads each. On that case we were using HEAP
>>> with 1,5GB, under a virtualized Linux CentOS with 2 cores processors and
>>> 3GB RAM box.
>>> 
>>> Keep in mind that for better results the cpu/memory usage don't be higher
>>> than 80%. It can cause anomalies to test results in some cases.
>>> 
>>> Hope it helps you.
>>> Flávio Cysne
>>> 
>>> 2012/3/1 ZK <[email protected]>
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 6000 threads seems like a lot to me for 1 machine
>>>> I normally dont go above 300 threads per load injector
>>>> 
>>>> ZK
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