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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
# 1.#2) Testing 4 HTML (over HTTPS) pages
# 1.#3) 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.)
# 2) Server Configuration:
# 2.#1) Apache Web (HTTPS) Server - configured for AJP Proxy to Tomcat Java App Server
# 2.#1.#1) Main page hitting AJP to Tomcat
# 2.#1.#2) Embedded Resources (images, .js, .css, flash movies, etc.) served directly from Apache docroot
# 2.#2) Tomcat Server (receives AJP requests only from Apache Server)
# 2.#3) MySQL DB Server (receives JDBC connections from Tomcat Server only)
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