Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like a good idea. Did you use a Java Sampler to do the copy?
> From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:21:43 +0000 > Subject: Re: Performance penalty for using remote data files? > To: [email protected] > > 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*
