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From: Marcelo Jara <marcelojara@hotmail.com>
To: JMeter Users List <user@jmeter.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Performance penalty for using remote data files?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:32:42 -0500
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Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like a good idea. Did you use a Java Samp=
ler to do the copy?=20

> From: dazzlebown@gmail.com
> Date: Thu=2C 24 Jan 2013 16:21:43 +0000
> Subject: Re: Performance penalty for using remote data files?
> To: user@jmeter.apache.org
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> Hi Marcelo=2C
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> The short answer to this is "Yes=2C almost certainly". I've done rather a=
 lot
> of heavy distributed load testing and any additional link in the chain is
> likely to cause delays and therefore possibly distory results. Another
> consideration is that depending on your network topology this could cause
> congestion at other nodes and affect other users and indeed your own test=
s.
> I echo Scott=2C above=2C when he says that you should download your paylo=
ad and
> execute with test data stored locally.
>=20
> Cheers=2C
> Darren.
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>=20
>=20
> On 24 January 2013 15:50=2C HUSSEY=2C SCOTT T <sh8121@att.com> wrote:
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> > In the past I've had a similar situation and used a step in a setup thr=
ead
> > group to download files to the local Jmeter engine.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Marcelo Jara [mailto:marcelojara@hotmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday=2C January 24=2C 2013 9:45 AM
> > > To: user@jmeter.apache.org
> > > Subject: RE: Performance penalty for using remote data files?
> > >
> > > Any insight from Jmeter developers would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > > From: marcelojara@hotmail.com
> > > > To: user@jmeter.apache.org
> > > > Subject: Performance penalty for using remote data files?
> > > > Date: Tue=2C 22 Jan 2013 10:58:38 -0500
> > > >
> > > > Hello=2C
> > > > I currently have several scripts that use large data sets (over 100=
K
> > lines).
> > > The data files are currently stored locally on the Jmeter test server
> > (Linux)=2C
> > > but I would like to put them in a centralized location so that other
> > teams can
> > > use them from their own machines. If I put them on a Windows share an=
d
> > > then mount the share on the Jmeter server=2C would a test get poor
> > > performance due to fetching the next value from the network?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> --=20
> Darren Bown
> tel:* +44(0)*7873 163 452
> tel: *+44(0)7971 078 445*
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