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Siege - HTTP regression testing and benchmark utility

Siege is an open source regression test and benchmark utility that lets Web designers measure the performance of their code under a heavy load of hits. 'Siege' lets the user hit a server with an adjustable number of concurrent users, thus placing the server "under siege."

It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Most features are configurable with command line options, which also include default values to minimize the complexity of the programs's invocation.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.joedog.org/
Source tarballftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/siege/siege-2.59.tar.gz
Latest versionftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/siege/siege-latest.tar.gz
Version 2.59 (stable) released on 2004-01-28
Version 2.60b5 (beta) released on 2004-07-06
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available from http://www.joedog.org/siege/docs/manual.shtml
Support contacts

Help Listhttp://www.joedog.org/contact/author.shtml
Developer Listhttp://www.joedog.org/contact/author.shtml
Bug Listhttp://www.joedog.org/contact/author.shtml

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsbombardment.sh, siege2csv.pl
Source languagesC, Perl
Use requirementsPerl
Build prerequisitesautoconf
Source prerequisitesopenssl (to support https protocol)

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-17
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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