title: How are server hits/second more than active thread count? | Jmeter
body: <p>I'm running a load test to test the throughput of a server by making HTTP requests through JMeter.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using the Thread Stepper plugin that allows me to increase the number of threads I'm using to make the requests after a particular time period.</p>
  
  <p>The following graphs show the number of active threads with time and another one shows the corresponding hits per second I was able to make.
  The third graph shows the latencies of the requests. The fourth one shows the response per second.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not able to correlate the four graphs together.</p>
  
  <p>In the server hits per second, I'm able to make a maximum of around 240 requests per second with only 50 active threads. However, the latency of the request is around 1 second.</p>
  
  <p>My understanding is that a single thread would make a request, and then wait for the response to return before making the second request. 
  Since the minimum latency in my case is around 1 second, how is JMeter able to hit 240 requests per second with only 50 threads?  </p>
  
  <p><strong>Server hits per second, max of 240 with only 50 threads. How?</strong>
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  Response latencies (minimum latency of 1 sec)
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  <p>Active threads with time (50 threads when server hits are 240/sec)
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  <p><strong>Response per second (max of 300/sec, how?)</strong>
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