Siege Support Utilities

Author: Bill Proud

Partly based on Peter Hutnick's bombardment

Docker image

Someone thoughtfully created a Docker image that lets you use this script with hardly any configuration (once you have Docker): https://github.com/klokantech/bombard-docker

Usage

The siege support utilities consist of the following perl scripts all of which should be installed in the same directory (such as /usr/local/bin):

prepdata Processes the siege log outputting a file usable by siegechart siegechart Creates a set of charts in PNG format bombard Drives siege along with the other two scripts above

Notes:

1. Siegechart requires the following perl modules: Chart-2.x and GD-1.2x
2. Bombard requires a logfile entry and logging = true to be set in .siegerc

There are also the following man pages which can be installed in for example /usr/local/man/man1:

• siegechart.1
• bombard.1

Compiling

1. apt-get install libgd-dev siege cpan / brew install cpan siege libgd
2. cpan install GD
3. cpan install Chart::Lines
4. ./configure
5. make
6. optional: make install