1BOMBARDMENT(1)                 bombardment v2.70                BOMBARDMENT(1)
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NAME

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

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

14       bombardment is part of the Siege package.  It calls siege with an  ini‐
15       tial  number  of clients.  When that run finishes, it immediately calls
16       siege again with that number of clients plus the  increment.   It  does
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OPTIONS

20       urlfile
21              The  name  of  the file containing one or more URLs for siege to
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24       initial number of clients
25              The number of clients to be used on the first Siege run.
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27       increment value
28              The number of clients to add from run to run.
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30       number of increments
31              The number of times to run siege.
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33       delay  The is the amount of time, in seconds,  that  each  client  will
34              wait  between requests.  The Siege default of 3 is overridden by
35              bombardment and is 15.
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NOTES

38       bombardment can very easily overcome  process  and  filehandle  limits.
39       Siege  DOES give a warning if it is going to exceed 600 concurrent pro‐
40       cesses.  See your system documentation (or try ulimit -a) for  informa‐
41       tion on the limits of your system before using a high number of concur‐
42       rent users.
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SEE ALSO

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

48       Written by Peter Hutnick <phutnick@aperian.com>
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53Siege Utility                    July-17-2010                   BOMBARDMENT(1)