Difficult to understand the total number of page request & application support for how many users?

Question

In my environment, home page consist the 60 page requests (seen in ff firebug) & display same as 60 samples while recording the script of home page in jmeter.

suppose i have taken,

Number of threads ( users ) = 10, 
Ramp-up period = 1, 
loop count = 1

Then my question is that the total number of page requests are = 10 * 60 = 600 or 10 ? & my application support for how much user 600 or 10?

Thanks in advance for answer.

Answer 1

• Total page requests will be 600, no. of requests in test plan * no. of users.
• Does your application support 600 or 10 users??
  • If you do not have any error, your application will at least supports 10 users.

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http://nico.vahlas.eu/2010/03/17/some-thoughts-on-stress-testing-web-applications-with-jmeter-part-1/

http://nico.vahlas.eu/2010/03/30/some-thoughts-on-stress-testing-web-applications-with-jmeter-part-2/