On 7 June 2012 14:04, Carsten Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to verify a large (>500Mb) response from a HTTP request, but 
> whenever I run my TestPlan
> the thread fails after running out of memory.
>
> I have added a "Save Responses to a file" Listener, but it looks like it is 
> the HTTP Request sampler that
> fails when handling all the data in memory after the reception completes - 
> see error ourput below.
>
> Console window output:
>  java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>  Dumping heap to java_pid1912.hprof ...
>  Heap dump file created [558234258 bytes in 6.291 secs]
>
> JMeter log file output:
>  2012/06/07 14:51:53 ERROR - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Test failed! 
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>        at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Unknown Source)
>        at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray(Unknown Source)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.readResponse(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1635)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPAbstractImpl.readResponse(HTTPAbstractImpl.java:236)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPJavaImpl.readResponse(HTTPJavaImpl.java:288)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPJavaImpl.sample(HTTPJavaImpl.java:518)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:62)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1060)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1049)
>        at 
> org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.process_sampler(JMeterThread.java:442)
>        at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:271)
>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>
> I have already increased the heap allocation to its max on my hardware 
> (-Xmx1G), but without success. I guess I could
> add memory, but since I have to run multiple downloads at the same time, it 
> does not look realistic.
>
> I can enable the "Save response as MD5 hash" option and have my TestPlan 
> succeed, but then the output file from the
> run only contain the MD5 hash and since my response data is somewhat dynamic 
> it is of no real use.
>
> I can see that JMeter allows a large file to be uploaded by reading it as 
> needed during transmission, so I guess I need
> the reverse of this i.e. store the response to a file while receiving it 
> without keeping it in memory. I guess something
> like having the "Save response as MD5 hash" option dump the data to a file 
> after its calculation are done.
>
> Does anybody know how I can do this ?

I think this will need a change to the JMeter HttpSampler code.
Listeners can only save what the sampler stores in the sample result.

I suggest you file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

> Thanks in advance,
> Carsten.
>
> P.S. I am using the following JMeter:
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: Version 2.7 r1342410
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: java.version=1.7.0_04
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) 
> Client VM
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: os.name=Windows 7
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: os.arch=x86
>  2012/06/07 14:20:45 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: os.version=6.1

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