Random selection from CSV file in Jmeter

Question

I have a very large CSV file (8000+ items) of URLs that I\'m reading with a CSV Data Set Config element. It is populating the path of an HTTP Request sampler and iterating throu

Answer 1

As other answers have stated, the reason you're not able to select a line at random is because you would have to read the whole file into memory which is inefficient.

Rather than trying to get JMeter to handle this on the fly, why not just randomise the file order itself before you start the test?

A scripting language such as perl makes short work of this:

 cat unrandom.csv | perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle' > random.csv