My clients are dying with “Exceeded max allowed overthink time” errors, how do I prevent these?
Check the following items: Ensure your clients are not overloaded. Ensure THINK_TIME to a reasonable level. Increase THREAD_RAMPUP_SECONDS in Test.config. Q: My client logs show sequences of errors that begin with: 2005-05-14 07:27:44:909 SPECweb_Support: [ERROR] SocketTimeoutException encountered during run! followed by a couple of other header and response errors. Occasionally my log also has error sequences that begin with: 2005-05-14 07:37:02:613 Connection: [ERROR] Bad status: 503 A: Your server is overloaded or under-tuned for the number of Simultaneous Sessions the test is requesting. The SocketTimeoutException error occurs when the server was unable to send a response back before the PROTOCOL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (60 sec) has expired.The 503 status is returned by some webservers to indicate that the service is temporarily unavailable. See if reducing the load on the server eliminates these messages, if so you may wish to investigate if there is addition tuning that could be done to
