Web Service - "Current Connections" Performance Counter
I recently started working with VSTS and I made some test scripts to work with the website. The scripts mainly consist of a synchronous WebService request.
I ran this script with 2000 users and checked the Current Connections performance counter, but it never got higher than 17. The number of test runs is always around 150, and since the test only contains one WebService request, I thought the current connections would be like this number.
Can someone explain to me what the Current Connections counter really means, since it seems like the number of requests was not being processed at a time?
Thanks in advance!
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Take a look at the WebTest connection model and WebTest connection pool size on the run parameters properties in the load test. These settings have a lot to do with reusing the server connection.
Current connections log the number of connections, active or active. This article describes the counter in more detail.
"These counters can exaggerate the number of concurrent connections because at any time some entries may not be deleted, even if the connections they are based on have been closed."
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