bombardment

NAME

bombardment - Run siege with an ever-increasing number of users

SYNOPSIS

bombardment [urlfile] [clients] [increment] [trials] [delay] bombardment urls.txt 5 10 20 1

DESCRIPTION

bombardment is part of the siege distribution. It calls siege with an initial number of clients. When that run finishes, it immediately calls siege again with that number of clients plus the increment. It does this the number of times specified in the fourth argument.

OPTIONS

urlfile
The name of the file containing one or more URLs for siege to test. clients
The initial number of clients to be used on the first run. increment
The number of clients to add to each ensuing run. trials
The number of times to run siege. delay
The is the amount of time, in seconds, that each client will wait
between requests. The siege default is overridden by bombardment

SEE ALSO

siege(1), siege2csv(1)

AUTHOR

Written by Peter Hutnick, et al.