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)