Hi Marcelo, The short answer to this is "Yes, almost certainly". I've done rather a lot of heavy distributed load testing and any additional link in the chain is likely to cause delays and therefore possibly distory results. Another consideration is that depending on your network topology this could cause congestion at other nodes and affect other users and indeed your own tests. I echo Scott, above, when he says that you should download your payload and execute with test data stored locally.
Cheers, Darren. On 24 January 2013 15:50, HUSSEY, SCOTT T <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past I've had a similar situation and used a step in a setup thread > group to download files to the local Jmeter engine. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marcelo Jara [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:45 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Performance penalty for using remote data files? > > > > Any insight from Jmeter developers would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Performance penalty for using remote data files? > > > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:58:38 -0500 > > > > > > Hello, > > > I currently have several scripts that use large data sets (over 100K > lines). > > The data files are currently stored locally on the Jmeter test server > (Linux), > > but I would like to put them in a centralized location so that other > teams can > > use them from their own machines. If I put them on a Windows share and > > then mount the share on the Jmeter server, would a test get poor > > performance due to fetching the next value from the network? > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Darren Bown tel:* +44(0)*7873 163 452 tel: *+44(0)7971 078 445*
