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[12:29:22 CST(-0600)] <dd> drewwills: i'll try that, and i should have a constant timer on all user actions?
[12:31:21 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i'll put it this way – a real user normally wais a number of seconds after getting a response before submitting the next request
[12:31:39 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> just choose a conservative but realistic model for that
[12:32:16 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> if you put zero pauses in, jmeter just hammers the portal as quick as it can, and I know it doesn't take too many threads of that to slow it down