6. Now run the below command to run the configure script in the Siege directory:<\/p>\n
$ sudo .\/configure<\/pre>\nThis command will check for all the dependencies that are required to build and install the package.<\/p>\n
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7. Now build the package as follows:<\/p>\n
$ sudo make<\/pre>\n![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/word-image-513.png\")
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8. Then install the package using the command below:<\/p>\n
$ sudo make install<\/pre>\n![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/word-image-514.png\")
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Now Siege is installed. You can verify it as follows:<\/p>\n
$ siege --version<\/pre>\nThe output below verifies that Siege version 4.1.0<\/strong> has been installed.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/word-image-515.png\")
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Load Testing Using Siege<\/h2>\n
To load test any website using Siege benchmarking tool, use the following syntax:<\/p>\n
$ siege options <URL><\/pre>\nYou will see results of the test like this:<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s have a quick understanding of results:<\/p>\n
\n- Transactions<\/strong> refers to total number of server hits<\/li>\n
- Availability<\/strong> is the percentage of connections successfully responded by the server<\/li>\n
- Elapsed<\/strong> time<\/strong> refers to how long the test ran.<\/li>\n
- Data transferred<\/strong> is the total amount of data Siege used for site testing<\/li>\n
- Response time<\/strong> is the time took by server for responding the requests<\/li>\n
- Transaction rate<\/strong> refers to the average number of transactions per second a server can manage<\/li>\n
- Throughput<\/strong> refers to the number of requests server can serve per second<\/li>\n
- Concurrency<\/strong> is the number of open parallel connections<\/li>\n
- Successful & Failed transactions<\/strong> are the number of times the server responded with status code less and greater than 400 respectively.<\/li>\n
- Longest transaction & Shortest transaction<\/strong> are the times that the longest and shortest transaction took to complete out of all transactions respectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Siege has various command-line options which you can view using the command below:<\/p>\n
$ siege --help<\/pre>\nUninstall Siege<\/h2>\n
If you need to remove Siege from your system, you can do so using the methods below:<\/p>\n
To remove Siege that was installed using the apt<\/strong> tool, use the command below:<\/p>\n$ sudo apt remove siege<\/pre>\nTo remove Siege that was installed using the tar.gz<\/strong> package, use the commands below:<\/p>\nNavigate to Siege directory:<\/p>\n
$ cd siege-4.1.0\/<\/pre>\nThen uninstall it:<\/p>\n
$ sudo make uninstall<\/pre>\nIn this post, we covered how to install Siege benchmarking tool on Ubuntu OS using two methods: using the APT and the tar.gz package. We also went through how to uninstall Siege in case you need to remove it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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