progressive-siege

Incrementally siege a website

Options

Mandatory options:

	-s	--steps		Number of concurrent users to be simulated at each step. Ex: "50,100,500,1000"
	-u	--url		URL to siege

Optionnal options:

	-t	--time		Time of each step. Ex: "2M", "1H". Tied to siege's time. Default: "5M"
	-d	--delay		delay between each simulated user request. Tied to siege's delay. Default: "0.5"
	-V	--siege-verbose	Enable siege's verbose mode. Default: not verbose
		--ulimit	Force ulimit's open file value (ulimit -n value). Default: ulimit's default (1024)

Examples

Run with 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 100 users, during 2 minutes each time (12 minutes in total)

    ./progressive-siege -u https://www.example.com --time 2M --steps 10,20,30,40,50,100

Run with 50, 100, 150 and 200 users, during 5 minutes each time (20 minutes in total) with 20 secondes between each users's request. Forcing ulimit open files to 8192:

    ./progressive-siege -u https://beta.example.com --time 5M --steps 50,100,150,200 --delay 20 --ulimit 8192

Nota

Some options cannot be chnged with siege's cli options. The configuration file may needs to be adjusted.

More than 1023 connections

It may be tricky to run more than 1023 connections, event with a modified limit value and a bigger ulimit -n value.

The best solution may be to use tmux, open several panes, synchonise then with :set synchronize-panes and run the script in parallel.