How to run from terminal a JMeter script that actually stops?

Question

Without digging into implementation details about the requests, I have a question about the configuration of the Thread Groups. My JMeter script runs from terminal (Non GUI) while having the Thread Group set as follows:

• Loop Count: Infinite
• Duration: 20 seconds

After adding a setUp Thread Group that is set with 1 Thread and 1 Loop, the script will never stop (behaving as it would be infinite loop). If I set the setUp Thread Group similar to the main Thread Group (Infinite and x number of seconds) the script will respect the x number of seconds but the problem is that it will run the setUp Thread Group multiple times, and I need to run the setUp Thread Group once only, as it sets stuff in the database. I tried various suggestions from various articles, like setting runtime vars:

• -Jjmeterthread.0.loops=1
• -Jiterations=1
• -Jgroup1.threads=1

but none would work. In conclusion, anyone can suggest a way of configuring the setUp Thread Group so that it only runs once before the main Thread Group?

Thank you

Answer 1

It seems that it happened for me to find a JMeter bug... the defect was leaked in the release 5.6 but it was fixed in the hotfix 5.6.1. More details here.

If anyone gets into this, upgrade from 5.6 to next, and enjoy.