Hi, like Sebb already said, definitely try running Jmeter in non GUI mode. You should have a command like: * jmeter -n -t your_script.jmx*
2016-06-09 17:36 GMT+02:00 Janine DeBeradinis <[email protected]>: > No, nothing else should be running on the machines which generate the load. > > The load testing machines are all the same: > > Windows Server 2012 R2 > Quad 2.35GHz Intel Xeon(R) CPU (2 processors) > 8GB RAM > 64-bit OS > > -----Original Message----- > From: Deepak Goel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 4:29 PM > To: JMeter Users List > Subject: Re: Jmeter pausing when running > > 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? 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