What is the best way to warm up the server before starting the actual load tests? In the doc, there is an option: // override warm up URL to http://www.google.com val httpConf = http.warmUp("http://www.google.com") However I want to warm up the server for, let’s say 10 minutes before proceeding. …

Hi, warmUp’s use is for warming up Gatling itself. To warm up your server, you can either silence some of your requests ( http://gatling.io/docs/2.1.4/http/http_request.html#silencing ) or run a simulation which is only used to warm up your server Cheers, Pierre

Warming up the server before starting the test

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Mayumi_Liyanage February 26, 2015, 4:21pm 2

Another note, I do not want to include this warm up data in the statistic gathered.

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Warming up the server before starting the test

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