Bug 61814

Summary: Hanging test due to no timeout set / hanging sampler and Test duration
Product: JMeter - Now in Github Reporter: Philippe Mouawad <p.mouawad>
Component: MainAssignee: JMeter issues mailing list <issues>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Philippe Mouawad 2017-11-24 20:37:08 UTC
Currently when you check Schedule in Thread group and:

- fix a duration for your test
- Don't set any timeout on HTTP requests or use a non interruptible sampler

Your test can hang infinitely as JMeter will not interrupt the Hanging samplers even after duration of Thread Group has been reached.

This is a frequent problem faced by JMeter users (I remember that I have answered this SO question at least 10 times). Even non newbie can get trapped.

Shouldn't we introduce this to avoid hanging test that give a feeling of broken JMeter while the problem is in the hanging targetted server ?:

- Option 1: Add an option in Scheduler part called "Interrupt pending Threads after duration + security margin (1m) that could be a field or property" on Thread Group (checked by default)
- Option 2 : Add it at test plan level to avoid repeating the configuration
    On start of Thread Group, an additional TimerTask would be triggered after duration + security margin and would do the following:
        run equivalent (refactor) of code at:
           - https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/engine/StandardJMeterEngine.java#L326
Comment 1 The ASF infrastructure team 2022-09-24 20:38:11 UTC
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/4613