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webserver workload failing with "[FATAL] Exceeded max allowed overthink time" errors posted: Sep 30, 2009 4:19 PM

Click to view qc4vmware's profile Novice 19 posts since
Sep 14, 2005
I am now getting errors in my webserver run. When I run just this workload I don't seem to get any errors in the .out file. When I run the full tests I first start seeing these:

2009-09-29 15:33:33:019 WorkloadScheduler[7]: Warning: Think time of 2000 msec exceeded by 1984 msec for state 4; total oversleep: 4062 msec


Then see a bunch of these


WorkloadScheduler(90): FATAL Exceeded max allowed overthink time of 121 sec. Please ensure that neither the server or client(s) are overloaded. If server is overloaded, consider reducing the number of SIMULTANEOUS_SESSIONS requested. If client(s) appear overloaded, add more clients.


Any suggestions on how to stabilize this so my runs always complete? The client is a VM but it is on a separate blade in the same chassis. These are HP C class blades with tons of ram and 3ghz processors on them. I am only running one tile at this point.

Click to view jamesz08's profile Enthusiast 39 posts since
Mar 17, 2008
Are you using the VMmark template for the webserver? Are the other workloads running fine when you do an entire tile? I have only seen this issue when there is a config problem or the system is extremely overloaded.

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