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Kyle Birkett
Kyle Birkett

Reputation: 11

JMeter 14 Hour Soak Test

I need to run a 14 hour soak test in JMeter. Need to hit a few pages with around 100 users an hour - so nothing crazy.

What would be an appropriate way to set this up in terms of ramp up period etc?

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Answers (1)

Dmitri T
Dmitri T

Reputation: 168052

  • "100 users an hour" doesn't make a lot of sense, if you need to mimic 100 users for 14 hours you need to configure Thread Group like:

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  • with regards to ramp-up - as per JMeter documentation:

    The ramp-up period tells JMeter how long to take to "ramp-up" to the full number of threads chosen. If 10 threads are used, and the ramp-up period is 100 seconds, then JMeter will take 100 seconds to get all 10 threads up and running. Each thread will start 10 (100/10) seconds after the previous thread was begun. If there are 30 threads and a ramp-up period of 120 seconds, then each successive thread will be delayed by 4 seconds.

    Ramp-up needs to be long enough to avoid too large a work-load at the start of a test, and short enough that the last threads start running before the first ones finish (unless one wants that to happen).

    Start with Ramp-up = number of threads and adjust up or down as needed.

    the point is to increase the load gradually so you can ramp-up i.e. for first hour and then hold the load for remaining 13 hours if nothing bad happens during the ramp-up phase

  • Also make sure to configure JMeter to behave like a real browser when it comes to:

Upvotes: 1

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