apache / apache/jmeter

Jmeter is causing 4x latency for high volume of 429s due to backend microservice rate limiting compared to latency for 200 OK response

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Description

### Expected behavior

Expected behaviour should be equal or less latency than 200 OK response.

### Actual behavior

We are trying to simulate 3 million requests/min from jmeter to background service. When we don't have rate limiting, jmeter instances are able to generate 3 million request per min. But when we enable rate limiting, throughout is reduced by 1/4th of what we are using for all success (200 OK) responses. When we checked the latency at background service/ingress, latency seems to be fine. But jmeter reports 4 times higher response time. Is there any limitation of 429s on jmeter load generation? Why 429s are reducing throughput at jmeter and increasing the latency at Jmeter?

### Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Simulate very volume of test with all sucess response from a service
2. Now repeat the test with enabling rate limiting for that service and configure rate limit to reject 50% of the requests.
3. Now you should be able to see latency of 429s are 4x slower than 200 OK responses.

### JMeter Version

latest

### Java Version

latest

### OS Version

Macos

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