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NOTES on "strange pause" during testing run
Test conditions:
1) Client Configuration: 1.1)
- JMeter 2.4 being run on a Windows XP box
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- Testing 4 HTML (over HTTPS) pages
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- Key Issue - when "Retrieve All Embedded Resources" is enabled, test runs for ~500-600 iterations (2400 of the 4 pages + 10X that in embedded resources), then pauses for about 35 seconds, then starts running at full speed again. (THE PAUSE IS NOT INTENDED, AND IS THE PRECISE PROBLEM EXPERIENCED.
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- ) Server Configuration:
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- Apache Web (HTTPS) Server - configured for AJP Proxy to Tomcat Java App Server
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- ** Main page hitting AJP to Tomcat
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- ** Embedded Resources (images, .js, .css, flash movies, etc.) served directly from Apache docroot
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- Tomcat Server (receives AJP requests only from Apache Server)
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- MySQL DB Server (receives JDBC connections from Tomcat Server only)
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