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ucuber
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Slow start of webtests

Hi all,   I have a strange phenomenon I do not understand.   Assume I start the webtest the first time of the day on a nearly clean system. For this I have build a wrapping class (python) a...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    6 years ago

    I agree, most likely it has something to do with caching.  Some recent versions of Chrome actually keep chrome running as a background process (an optional setting) to speed up browsing.  It could be that the first run starts the Chrome process and each run afterwards uses the already started process.

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator
6 years ago

My first guess would be that something is being cached on the first pass.  Not sure how to fix it though.

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    6 years ago

    I agree, most likely it has something to do with caching.  Some recent versions of Chrome actually keep chrome running as a background process (an optional setting) to speed up browsing.  It could be that the first run starts the Chrome process and each run afterwards uses the already started process.