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siege: Benchmark a list of URLs (without waiting between requests).

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$ siege --benchmark --file ${path-to-url_list-txt}

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This command uses the "siege" tool to perform a benchmark test using a list of URLs provided in a text file.

Let's break it down:

"siege" is a command-line tool commonly used for load testing and benchmarking web servers and applications.
"--benchmark" is an option that tells the "siege" tool to run in benchmarking mode, which means it will generate a load on the specified URLs and measure their performance.
"--file" is another option that expects a file path as its argument. In this case, it uses the file indicated by "${path-to-url_list-txt}".
"${path-to-url_list-txt}" is a placeholder that needs to be replaced with the actual path to the file containing the list of URLs. This file should be in a plain text format, with each URL listed on a separate line.

When executed, the "siege" tool will read the URLs from the specified file and generate concurrent requests to those URLs, measuring their response times, throughput, and other performance metrics. The benchmark results will be displayed on the command line output.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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