Threading and keepalives in HTTP are always an issue in performance testing and testing tools. When does a keepalive session start and how many are started is a thing of mystery. So having a bit of clarity helps. On my current project I wanted to prove what thread connects to what server for how long.
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JMeter CSV data for remote clients [Update]
JMeter is a wonderful product but in some aspects it has it’s kinks. So when you do testing on several remote clients and have CSV data that fills variables you start to hit some ugly issues. In my example here I am reading login data from a CSV file. The thing is, if the same user logs in twice (or more times) simultaneously it’s FIFO. All other users end up throwing an error.
The usual way to tackle CSV files in distributed JMeter environments is to copy the CSV to every client. But that would mean all of them kick off with the same line, thereby causing the problem. You can prevent that by cutting up your CSV into pieces and have one for each remote/client machine. This works but is tedious if the number of clients varies or the CSV changes often. You’d ideally want something more versatile and automagic.
Write a file from a JMeter Script
This is somewhat of a strange post here but it’s something I need to remember how to do and because it was hard to find. So if you’re not into JMeter please move on, there’s nothing to see here!
JMeter issue running in Remote Mode on Ubuntu
I do a lot of performance testing with JMeter and every now and again you get thrown a curve ball. I was trying set up a remote performance testing cluster and when invoking the servers with JMeter RMI calls the tests were executing but the valuable results were not coming back to the client. Looking at the log…
Hello Test World 