JMeter currently defaults to retrying once if a retriable request fails. This does not really agree with the purpose of JMeter to create a specific load on a server, as the load will vary depending on whether or not a retry occurs. The defaults for the HC3 and HC4 retry counts should be set to 0, i.e. no retries.
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1505503 Log: JMeter should default to 0 retries for HTTP requests Bugzilla Id: 55288 Modified: jmeter/trunk/bin/jmeter.properties jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC3Impl.java jmeter/trunk/src/protocol/http/org/apache/jmeter/protocol/http/sampler/HTTPHC4Impl.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3169