JMeter stuck at 'Waiting for possible shutdown message on port 4445'

Question

I am trying to use jmeter on the command line using:

./jmeter.sh -n -t testplan.jmx -l log.jtl

It works 8/10 times but some times it gets stuck on the message: waiting for possible shutdown message... I am using CentOS 6 and JMeter version 2.9 r1437961. My test plan has two thread groups which are configured to run consecutively from the GUI. Any suggestions as to what the problem might be?

Answer 1

Did you set timeouts to your HTTP requests ? If not , then jmeter will wait infinitely for a response from server which can lead to such issue.

So fix is to set a timeout on connect and read in HTTP Request Defaults.

Also you shoud upgrade to JMeter 2.13.