{"id":7204,"date":"2020-05-12T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:01:58","slug":"configure-jmeter-thread-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/configure-jmeter-thread-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure JMeter Thread Counts Per Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very common practice in JMeter is to make the number of threads per server configurable by passing in as a parameter to your thread group. We recently received a question from RedLine13 customer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/\">University of California<\/a> about this. Sundar Thiru, Manager of Performance and Automation Testing, asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7205\" src=\"http:\/\/54.161.25.214\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image.png\" alt=\"Configure JMeter Thread Counts\" width=\"2036\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image.png 2036w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1536x717.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1568x732.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2036px) 100vw, 2036px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You simply launch this in RedLine13 and use Advanced JMeter Options to pass in your settings at runtime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"299\" class=\"wp-image-7206\" src=\"http:\/\/54.161.25.214\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1.png 1050w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1-1024x292.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-1-768x219.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you have a good test you can just clone the same test configuration and change the size.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7207\" src=\"http:\/\/54.161.25.214\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1049\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is done in advanced cloud options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7208\" src=\"http:\/\/54.161.25.214\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-3.png\" alt=\"Configure JMeter Thread Counts\" width=\"733\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-3.png 733w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-3-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7209\" src=\"http:\/\/54.161.25.214\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/word-image-4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you change the size of the test you might want to change -JNUM_OF_USERS to take advantage of larger size instances.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out yourself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/Service\">here<\/a>\u00a0and configure JMeter thread counts. And if you&#8217;re new to RedLine13, here\u2019s how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/run-your-first-redline13-load-test\/\">Run Your First RedLine13 Load Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very common practice in JMeter is to make the number of threads per server configurable by passing in as a parameter to your thread group. We recently received a question from RedLine13 customer University of California about this. Sundar Thiru, Manager of Performance and Automation Testing, asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13. You simply launch this in RedLine13 and use Advanced JMeter Options to pass in your settings at runtime.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/configure-jmeter-thread-counts\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[165,283,298],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-user","4":"post-7204","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"category-jmeter","10":"post_tag-customer","11":"post_tag-jmeter","12":"post_tag-jmeter-thread-count"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Configure JMeter Thread Counts Per Test - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RedLine13 customer University of California asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13. 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