Hello Vishnu, I was particularly interested in the `Tweak the JVM` section of your article, but I didn't feel like I got much new info about how to do that and why (exactly what each tweak does and how it affects the performance run). Maybe it would be more useful for your readers if you ellaborated more on each option, why would the throughput be higher if I set jmeter to server mode for example?

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