BOMBARDMENT(1) bombardment v2.70 BOMBARDMENT(1)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 bom-
bardment 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 pro-
cesses. See your system documentation (or try ulimit -a) for information on the limits of your system before using a high number of con-
current users.
SEE ALSO siege(1), urls_txt(5), layingsiege(7), siege2csv(1)AUTHOR
Written by Peter Hutnick <phutnick@aperian.com>
Siege Utility April-17-2012 BOMBARDMENT(1)
Check Out this Related Man Page
URLS.TXT(5) File Formats Manual URLS.TXT(5)NAME
urls.txt - URL database for regression testing
INTRODUCTION
The urls.txt file is installed by default in /etc/siege/urls.txt. When siege is invoked without a command line reference to a URL, then by
default it looks for urls in that file. The advantage of using the urls.txt file is two-fold: One, it frees you free retyping a url with
every invocation. And two, it allows you to conduct full site regression testing.
When the urls.txt file is used, siege reads all the urls in that file into memory and runs through the list in one of two ways, sequen-
tially or randomly. The default run is sequential from start to finish and back again until the --reps or the --time option has been satis-
fied. With the -i/--internet option selected, siege runs through the file randomly simulating the stress applied by a community of inter-
net users.
The -f/--file option allows you to select a file other then the default urls.txt file. You may also instruct siege to use a different file
with the "file" directive in .siegerc, i.e., "file = /usr/local/etc/urls.txt"
You may set and reference variables inside the urls.txt file. All variables must be declared BEFORE they are referenced. Variables are
declared with the "=" operator, VARIABLE = VALUE. They are then referenced inside $() or ${}, example: $(HOST), ${HOST}
HOST=joey.joedog.org
http://${HOST}/browse.jsp?size=5
http://${HOST}/admin.jsp?name=ralph
EXAMPLE FILE
This is an exmple urls.txt file. Lines beginning with a hash (#) are comments and ignored by siege.
#
# Example urls.txt file
# URLs database for siege
#
http://www.haha.com/index.html
http://www.haha.com/howto/index.html
http://www.haha.com/cgi-bin/howto/display.cgi?1013
www.haha.com/cgi-bin/fm.cgi?first=j.&last=fulmer
https://www.haha.com/index.shtml
https://www.whoohoo.com/my_whoohoo.jsp
# POST data requires a POST directive
www.haha.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi POST first=bart&last=simpson
www.haha.com/hoho.jsp POST name=jeff&pass=secret
# POST the contents of a file using the
# line input character "<"
http://www.haha.com/my.jsp POST </home/jeff/data.txt
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Fulmer <jeff@joedog.org>, et al.
BUGS
Report bugs to jeff@joedog.org. Give a detailed description of the problem and report the version of siege that you are using.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Jeffrey Fulmer, et al.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
AVAILABILITY
The most recent released version of siege is available by anonymous FTP from ftp.joedog.org in the directory pub/siege.
SEE ALSO siege(1)siege.config(1)layingsiege(7)Siege v2.70 April-17-2012 URLS.TXT(5)