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Amit
Amit

Reputation: 47

LoadRunner Scheduler - can I pause VUSERS?

My LoadRunner scenario uses 100 VUSERS, running for 3 days, and I have to pause the scenario during maintenance window time (01:00 - 02:00). Since I'm short of VUSERS (my license is for 100 VUSERS), I cannot stop them at 01:00 and restart them at 02:00, since it means I'm using 200 VUSERS.

Is there a method to hold/freeze/pause the test, and continue it later on?

Previously I used the following: 1. Start 100 VUSERS. 2. Run until 01:00 3. Stop VUSERS. 4. Start 100 VUSERS 5. Run until 01:00 6. ... As I said, in this method I'm exceeding my VUSERS pool. Any ideas?

Thanks, Amit

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1834

Answers (1)

James Pulley
James Pulley

Reputation: 5682

At the beginning of the iteration programmatically check the system clock and if you are within your iteration window of touching 1:00am then fall into sleep command for the appropriate number of milliseconds until 2:00am 

sleep ((3600*1000) + (your_number_of_seconds_until_1am+inside_your_iteration_pacing) *1000));

Upvotes: 1

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