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Siege
Siege is a free and 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.
Last updated 22 Apr, 2005
About
Leadership
- Jeffrey Fulmer - Maintainer
- Peter J. Hutnick - Contributor
Requirements
- Perl (Use Requirement)
- autoconf (Build Prerequisite)
- openssl (to support https protocol) (Source Requirement)
Subprograms
bombardment.sh, siege2csv.pl
Versions
2.63b3
2.63b3 beta released 2005-05-20
- Released: 20 May, 2005
- Code Maturity: Beta
2.60
2.60 stable released 2004-07-29
- Released: 29 Jul, 2004
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: ftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/siege/siege-2.60.tar.gz
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
User manual available from http://www.joedog.org/siege/docs/manual.shtml