You could use an OS Sampler: http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#OS_Process_Sampler
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Philippe Mouawad < [email protected]> wrote: > Agree with Hussey and Darren. > > Hussey Scott solution seems fine to me. > > https://twitter.com/philmdot <https://twitter.com/ubikingenierie> > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Darren Bown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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* >> > > > > > > > -- > Cordialement. > Philippe Mouawad. > > > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
