On 03/09/2009, Adrian Speteanu <asp.adieu@gmai...> wrote:
> true, you can use either method for what you said you need, but in
>  this case, saving the file on the test machine will significantly
>  increase the stress on the test environment (quality image files mean
>  lots of space and that means disk usage).
>
>  if you run the test with fewer requests and see that you get the
>  responses you expect, then you will also get these responses in a load
>  / stress test even if you don't save the files locally.

Not necessarily; the server may degrade under load.

For checking responses such as images, consider using

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#MD5Hex_Assertion

Or you can use the HTTP sampler option "Save response as MD5 hash?"
and check that.

>  this is
>  recommended.
>
>
>  On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Deepak Shetty<shettyd@gmai...> wrote:
>  > Hi
>  > you can add
>  > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Save_Responses_to_a_file
>  > OR you can add a BeanShell Post Assertion  that can read the bytes and save
>  > it to whatever you want or run comparisons
>  > OR
>  > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Sample_Result_Save_Configuration
>  > (Check Save Response Data) - I wouldnt do this though because some binary
>  > can cause the xml to break
>  >
>  >
>  > regards
>  > deepak
>  >
>  > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Bruce Foster <gis.foster@gmai...> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hi List,
>  >>
>  >> I'm totally new to jmeter and also benchmarking.
>  >>
>  >> I'm testing a WMS (web map service) service performance of three
>  >> server softwares. Basically, they are GET request of images from a
>  >> server.
>  >>
>  >> Is there a way to SAVE the requested images? I have the mandate to
>  >> make sure that the response from the servers are exactly the same
>  >> image (in resolution, quality) that we request for.
>  >>
>  >> When I did a test, I put a network monitor. I could see 70mb of data
>  >> is transfered. Now, where to look for that, does jmeter save them in
>  >> cache?
>  >>
>  >> Note, I'm doing everything on a vmware machine running on my notebook.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Thanks
>  >> Bruce
>  >>
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