On the windows server machines which generate load, do you run any other processes or systems like batch jobs
What is the hardware configuration of your load testing machine Also what is the response times of your systems, is it milliseconds? On Jun 9, 2016 1:06 AM, "Deepak Shetty" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > you could be having > a. Problems in the JMeter java VM > b. Problems in your test itself (like a synchronizing timer or a throughput > controller) - This is something you have probably eliminated ? > c. Problems in the system being tested (i.e. JMeter is generating the load > , but your system under test paused so Jmeter isnt doing anything other > than waiting) - Sounds like you have eliminated this possibility > > For a) you probably have no way out of looking at the java VM when it is > paused (take a thread dump - or hook up something like jconsole or run a > profiler - look at GC running , memory usage etc) and then take it from > there. > > Since you mentioned you are using Jmeter distributed mode , try eliminating > that first - i.e. running a single machine test (perhaps with half the > load) and seeing whether you see same behavior or not - if you do then you > can probably take a thread dump (ctrl+break or kill -3 and see what JMeter > is doing at that time - you can also enable GC logs to see what the memory > usage looks and whether GC is running or not). > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Janine DeBeradinis < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Run both the server and > client > > in non-gui mode on the same machine? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: sebb [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:56 PM > > To: JMeter Users List > > Subject: Re: Jmeter pausing when running > > > > The JMeter GUI takes a lot more resources than running in non-Gui mode. > > Also client-server mode takes more resources as it has to send back the > > results. > > > > Since you only have two machines actually running the test, it should be > > easy enough to try running them stand-alone in non-GUI mode in parallel. > > > > > > > > > > On 8 June 2016 at 19:41, Janine DeBeradinis <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > We are using 3 machines. > > > > > > 1 is running JMeter GUI to distribute the load. (also trying to see > > > if the pausing issue goes away) The other 2 are running JMeter server. > > > > > > They are all Windows Server 2012 R2 machines. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Janine > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Deepak Goel [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 12:47 PM > > > To: JMeter Users List > > > Subject: Re: Jmeter pausing when running > > > > > > What machine are you running the test from? 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We have > > >> tried several things, but nothing seems to be working. The behavior > > >> is I start a JMeter load test. The test will run fine for a few > > minutes, then pause, then pick > > >> back up, then pause, etc. I’ve tried upping the heap size when > > starting > > >> JMeter, running in distributed mode and non distributed mode, even > > >> turning off our Anti-Virus software, but the issue still persists. > > >> The amount of load being generated isn’t that much either. My test > has > > about 75 > > >> different thread groups, but we are only using 1 thread per group. > The > > >> last thing I tired was adding -XX:+DisableExplicitGC to jmeter.bat > > >> file, but that didn’t work either. > > >> > > >> Does anyone have any other suggestions or thoughts? > > >> > > >> Do the logs reflect the delay? (or could it just be a delayed display > > >> issue) > > >> Do you have any data visualizations/listeners running during the > tests? > > >> (they can eat up a lot of CPU cycles) Do you have anything else > > >> running on the computer that might be stealing the network card? > > >> Is there a pattern that might point you somewhere (like it happens > > >> nearly at the same test, or every 12.5 seconds or something)? > > >> > > >> No direct help, but those are all things that I have seen affect my > > tests. > > >> > > >> -Bob > > >> > > >> > > >> --- > > >> Bob Nance > > >> Novation Systems > > >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > >> 256-534-4620 > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >
