I have to make a load test for a relatively large number of users so I cant realy use User Parameters pre-processor to parametrize each thread with custom user data. I've read that I should use CSV Data Set Config instead. However I run into a problem with how JMeter interprets the input of this Config.

Example:

I have a thread group of 3 threads and Loop Count:10 with one HTTP request sampler with server www.example.com and path: \${user}. The csv file (bullet is a single line in file) for CSV Data Set Config to extract the user parameter:

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Expected output is that for thread 1-x the path of the request should be: \x. So the output file should consist of 10 samples per thread namely:

• for thread 1-1 : 10 requests to www.example.com\1
• for thread 1-2 : 10 requests to www.example.com\2
• for thread 1-3 : 10 requests to www.example.com\3

but instead i get requests to each \1 - \5 and then to EOF. Does anyone know how to achieve the expected effect with CSV Data Set Config in jmeter 2.9?