Hammer your site as fast as computerly possible (pretty much). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # to get things started make loadtest ./loadtest #usage: #loadtest -h host_name -p port_number # [-c num_concurrent_users] # [-r num_sessions] # [-t run_time_seconds] # [-i input_file1 -i input_file2 -i input_file3 ...] # take a look at requests/example # basically anything you can pipe to netcat and get a response with will do # see scripts in requests.easy/ for an easy way to generate a multipart POST # request # TODO: need to put an example for an 'easy' request, but who to target? cat requests/example | nc www.google.com 80 # confirm output is what you should be seeing # and run! # you can use '-t' instead of '-r' to set a time limit # (instead of a repeat limit) ./loadtest -h www.google.com -p 80 -c 1 -r 10 -i requests/example # sample output: #running with 1 user, each doing 10 sessions, targeting www.google.com port 80... #Totals: #=================== #Sessions: 10 # 12.37 sessions per second # 10.00 sessions per thread # 12.37 sessions per thread per second # #Total Time: 0.81 seconds # 0.81 average seconds per thread # #Data (down): 0.32 MiB # 402.18 average KiBps # 402.18 average KiBps per thread # #Data (up): 0.00 MiB # 0.00 average KiBps # 0.00 average KiBps per thread # #Number of Timeouts: 0 # Try it on your own host with hundreds of users over long periods of time. # Runs better than siege. More flexibility (and configuration) than ab.