Re: [OpenSTA-users] Severe load ramp-up limitation encountered

[Bernie V. <Ber...@iP...>]

> Dan,
>
> I'm having a little trouble visualizing what is happening. Could you reply
> with the VU parameters (i.e. batch start options, total number of users,
> number of vir users for timers and http result) for the single task group
> test?

I hate to respond to my own posts, but "never mind". You included the info I 
asked for in a prior post.

I can't replicate your problem, but I am currently sitting behind a 10Mb 
cable modem and am therefore running a different test.

I was able to ramp up to 1000 users with no errors (expect some 10060 
network timeouts which seem reasonable given my slow link)

My runtime parameters were:

Total number of users for this task Group: 1000
# virtual users for timer results 1000
# of virtual users for http results: 1

Batch start options:
interval between batches: 1
Number of virt users per batch: 5
Batch ramp up time (seconds): 1

My script was set to loop for 1 hour and consisted of;

 Start Timer T_DANDOWNING
 PRIMARY GET URI "http://syn1.sellpoint.net/QA/smloadtest.html HTTP/1.0" ON 
1 &
  HEADER DEFAULT_HEADERS &
  ,WITH {"Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, " &
    "application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, 
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, " &
    "application/msword, */*", &
   "Accept-Language: en-us", &
   "Connection: Keep-Alive"}
 SYNCHRONIZE REQUESTS
 End Timer T_DANDOWNING

You dont have any large local variables defined do you?

FYI- I forced my 3.06 Ghz P4 Pentium processor to run at 1.5 Ghz, I have 2GB 
of memory. CPU utilizaiotn never got much over 20% and I saw no abnormal 
pagingl.

-Bernie