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6 bombardment - Run Siege with an ever-increasing number of users
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9 bombardment [urlfile] [initial number of clients] [increment value]
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11 bombardment urlfile.txt 5 10 20 1
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14 bombardment is part of the Siege package. It calls siege with an ini‐
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21 The name of the file containing one or more URLs for siege to
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25 The number of clients to be used on the first Siege run.
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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‐
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45 siege(1), urls_txt(5), layingsiege(7), siege2csv(1)
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48 Written by Peter Hutnick <phutnick@aperian.com>
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53Siege Utility July-17-2010 BOMBARDMENT(1)