HTTPSampler Sample Timeout?

[vi...@oz.com]

Hello,

I am witnessing an odd behaviour when using the HTTPSampler: I will run a 
test over a fairly long period (24hour+) and occasionally, I will get 
"java.io.IOException: Stream Closed" exceptions steady for roughly an 
hour.

Now it certainly is possible that in that interval I somehow lose 
connection to the server, the peculiar part is that the interval between 
the sampler sending the HTTP request and the sampler generating the 
exception is always almost exactly 360seconds (6minutes).

My question is this: does JMeter have a timeout associated with the 
HTTPSampler? If so, where is it set?

This is the exception stack (as returned by sample.getSamplerData() ), if 
it's any help:

java.io.IOException: Stream closed
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.ensureOpen(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
        at 
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSampler.readResponse(HTTPSampler.java:260)
        at 
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSampler.sample(HTTPSampler.java:500)
        at 
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:582)
        at 
org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:569)
        at 
org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:260)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Thanks for any insights you might have,
Vincent