Siege

Siege is another command-line open source tool to test load and performance. Siege is an HTTP/FTP load tester and benchmarking utility. It is designed for developers and administrators to measure the performance of their applications under load. It can send a configurable number of simultaneous requests to a server and those requests that place the server under a siege.

Its installation is simple and easy. For Linux and Mac OS X, first download Siege by issuing the following command in the terminal:

wget http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-3.1.4.tar.gz

It will download the Siege TAR compressed file. Now, uncompress it by issuing the following command:

tar –xvf siege-3.1.4.tar.gz

Now, all the files will be in the siege-3.1.4 folder. Build and install it by issuing the following commands one by one in the terminal:

cd siege-3.1.4
./configure
make
make install

Now, Siege is installed. To confirm this, issue the following command to check the Siege version:

siege –V

If it displays the...