Sleeps the thread. Can be configured to sleep for a specified number of milliseconds, or for a random-not-to-exceed number of milliseconds, or for a random number of milliseconds less than 3600000L (one hour).

Parameters

The Sleep workload can work in two different ways.

  1. Specify a specific number of milliseconds for the thread to sleep
  2. Draw from a distribution. Available distributions are uniform random, gaussian, and Poisson

To Specify A Specific Number Of Milliseconds

Name Required Default Description
name yes – “sleep”
sleepMS yes – specific number of milliseconds the thread should sleep

To Draw From A Distribution

Name Required Default Description
name yes – “sleep”
distribution yes – “uniform”, “gaussian”, or “poisson”
min Optional for uniform 0 Minimum value of the uniform distribution
max Required for uniform – Maximum number of milliseconds. Uniform distribution will choose a number [(min or 0), max]
mean Required for gaussian and poisson – Mean of the gaussian or Poisson distribution
std Required for gaussian – Standard deviation for the gaussian distribution

Examples

// Sleep the thread for exactly 60000 milliseconds
{
  name = "sleep"
  sleepMS = 60000
}

// Sleep the thread for a number of milliseconds [0, max] chosen from a uniform distribution
{
  name = "sleep"
  distribution = "uniform"
  max = 60000
}

// Sleep the thread for a number of milliseconds chosen from a Poisson distribution with a mean of 30000
{
  name = "sleep"
  distribution = "poisson"
  mean = 30000
}

// Sleep the thread for a number of milliseconds chosen from a gaussian distribution with a mean of 30000 and standard deviation of 1000
{
  name = "sleep"
  distribution = "gaussian"
  mean = 30000
  std = 1000
}