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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       bombardment [urlfile] [initial number of clients] [increment value] [number of increments] [delay]"
       bombardment urlfile.txt 5 10 20 1

DESCRIPTION

       bombardment  is  part of the Siege package.  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.

       initial number of clients
              The number of clients to be used on the first Siege run.

       increment value
              The number of clients to add from run to run.

       number of increments
              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 of 3 is overridden by bombardment and is 15.

NOTES

       bombardment can very easily overcome process and filehandle limits.  Siege DOES give a warning if  it  is
       going  to  exceed  600  concurrent  processes.   See  your  system  documentation  (or try ulimit -a) for
       information on the limits of your system before using a high number of concurrent users.

SEE ALSO

       siege(1), urls_txt(5), layingsiege(7), siege2csv(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Peter Hutnick <phutnick@aperian.com>