title: Within a thread, are JMeter HTTP request/responses done sequentially?
body: <p>I'm trying to understand the basics of JMeter.  I've got a "plus1" Java servlet that adds one to a request parameter and returns the result, so it's a fast test servlet just so I can understand load testing.</p>
  
  <p>Here's my test plan:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Thread Group: 1 thread, ramp up 1 s, loop count 10000 
    HTTP Request to localhost
    Graph Results
    Summary Report
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run this, the summary report shows a throughput number of 200/sec or so.</p>
  
  <p>The key question, with no controllers in the test plan, is JMeter running the test plan (sending a single request) and waiting for the response before looping?</p>
  
  <p>When I introduce a more computationally intensive page for the request, the throughput number goes down as I would expect.</p>