How to calculate samples of JMeter aggregate report

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I started 80 virtual users in 600 seconds, selected forever in loop count and run 40 minutes.

Then I confused about samples in JMeter aggregate report.

80 threads finished in 600 seconds and run 40 minutes. There are 4 loop counts and 320 samples, but there are 5,000 more samples.

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How can I calculate samples of the JMeter aggregate report?

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What is exactly your problem ? What did you expect ? – UBIK LOAD PACK
@ UBIK LOAD PACK I don't figure out how jmeter works in 40 minutes, and if loop forever option was set, threads started before don't exit and send requests constantly ? – wonbin2011

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The aggregate report seems to be generating the correct results.

Suppose, you run the test for single user [say user1] instead of 80 and for 'Loop Count' set to 1 (instead of forever) even then the single user will increase the samples count to (1*320*4 = 1,280) and in your case you are executing the test for 80 users so it is expected that the samples count can reach to #102,400 (80*4*320) if all 80 users executed the scenario at least once.

I am in a software qa company & working on JMeter for quite long time and would recommend a couple of things that can help you to organize your script in a better way which can further help to easily understand your results:

  • When you have multiple child samplers for any request [say login request] then its good to keep all the child samplers related to that request in a single 'Transaction Controller' element and check 'Generate parent sample' checkbox.enter image description here
  • Give unique name to the samplers to identify them easily during failures & also you will see unique samplers name in JMeter report
  • Clear the previous test results [or listeners] before starting a new test otherwise your new test result gets appended to the last test results