Disabling autosampling

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Disabling autosampling

guybedford opened this issue 3 years ago · 4 comments

When explicitly setting the number of samples it would be useful to be able to entirely disable autosampling.

This would be an alternative to #221.

Autosampling breaks down when dealing with network testing - I'm simulating a server with network variations here and autosampling is continuning runs after the 1 minute timeout (the lowest possible timeout as well!).

As a result, running a large number of network tests is taking more than 4 hours, when the individual tests should be possible to run within 2 hours.

Answer 1 · 2021-09-25T06:59:31.000Z

Reading through the source, I see explicitly setting timeout: 0 can avoid this batch of 10 which is hard-coded. Note that the docs mention the default timeout is 0 which was why I did not attempt this.

Answer 2 · 2021-09-25T15:32:30.000Z

Thanks for the report. I agree this isn't very clear in the docs. I've sent out #224 which hopefully makes this more obvious:

Answer 3 · 2021-09-25T15:34:28.000Z

You may also be interested in this feature request to make the sampling process more interactive and forgiving: #71. I'll bump this up in my priorities, since I think it would improve usability a lot!

Answer 4 · 2021-09-26T07:52:52.000Z

Thanks so much for the updates here, that looks very clear to me.