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EricS
EricS

Reputation: 835

JMeter load test time frame

I'm doing load test using JMeter, I have 1 thread group which simulate user browsing pages, the load I want to test is 600 users in 1 hour time frame, so I configured my thread group as Number of Threads: 600 and Ramp-Up Period: 3600. However the test run 5 hours to finish, so I'm not sure the time frame of the test, is it 1 hour or 5 hours?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 408

Answers (1)

Yuri G
Yuri G

Reputation: 1213

"Ramp up" means "the time something needed to get to full extent/power".

So your test would be slowly increasing the load it puts onto system under test from 0 to 600 threads during 1 hour.

If you need to test your stuff for exactly one hour - use Scheduler & Duration options to configure that.

As for ramp up - it depends on the system you're testing: if it is kind of scalable, starts from few and needs time to spin up additional resources - give it that time to warm up.

And last but not least: 600 threads is quite a lot, you may need to do some extra steps to make it going - like, distributed testing, or, if machine is powerful enough and well-equipped with a thick networking, revise the JMeter start script default settings and give it more memory.

Upvotes: 1

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