Siege will not stop when done with urls.txt file - csv

Question

I'm using siege to locate some problem pages on our new sitemap and am having trouble getting it to stop after it runs through the urls.txt file. I have tried using reps=once in the command line, as well as in the .siegerc config file. I find that I have to use the config file, as I want the output written verbosely to a log file so that I can see page load times, 302 and 404 errors, etc. and import them into excel. However, no matter what I try I cannot get siege to stop when it completes the url.txt file- it just reruns it over again.
I have configured for 40 concurrent users, the time and reps variable is commented out in config, the url.txt file is in config. The syntax I run at cmd line is...
sudo siege --reps=once -v > outputfile.csv
I have tried setting the reps in config, no luck. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Answer 1

I ran into similar problems and trying multiple options I got it to work with:
# siege -c 10 -b -r 10 -f urls.txt
where urls.txt is a simple list of URLs like
http://ip-address/url1.html
http://ip-address/url2.html
....
....
The logs were written into a file specified in the siegerc file. ${HOME}/var/siege.log
2016-08-05 17:52:59, 100, 0.88, 4, 0.09, 113.64, 4.55, 9.67, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:00, 100, 0.91, 4, 0.09, 109.89, 4.40, 9.76, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:01, 100, 0.90, 4, 0.09, 111.11, 4.44, 9.78, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:02, 100, 0.89, 4, 0.09, 112.36, 4.49, 9.64, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:03, 100, 0.86, 4, 0.08, 116.28, 4.65, 9.84, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:04, 100, 0.89, 4, 0.09, 112.36, 4.49, 9.80, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:05, 100, 0.88, 4, 0.09, 113.64, 4.55, 9.83, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:06, 100, 0.88, 4, 0.09, 113.64, 4.55, 9.89, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:07, 100, 0.87, 4, 0.09, 114.94, 4.60, 9.79, 100, 0
2016-08-05 17:53:07, 100, 0.88, 4, 0.09, 113.64, 4.55, 9.85, 100, 0
}
I also observed that the logfile option is either buggy or very strict.
'-l filename.log' does not work.
$ siege -c 10 -b -r 10 -f urls.txt -l ./siege.log
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 10 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege...
done.
Transactions: 0 hits
Availability: 0.00 %
Elapsed time: 0.08 secs
Data transferred: 0.00 MB
Response time: 0.00 secs
Transaction rate: 0.00 trans/sec
Throughput: 0.00 MB/sec
Concurrency: 0.00
Successful transactions: 0
Failed transactions: 100
Longest transaction: 0.00
Shortest transaction: 0.00
FILE: /home/xxxx/var/siege.log
You can disable this annoying message by editing
the .siegerc file in your home directory; change
the directive 'show-logfile' to false.
But --log=filename.log works. e.g.
# siege -c 10 -b -r 10 -f urls.txt --log=./siege.log
$ siege -c 10 -b -r 10 -f urls.txt --log=./siege.log
** SIEGE 2.70
** Preparing 10 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege...
HTTP/1.1 200 0.08 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.08 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.09 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.09 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 45807 bytes ==> /8af6cacb-50ed-40b6-995f-49480f9f74fa.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 55917 bytes ==> /create_and_delete_networks.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 55917 bytes ==> /create_and_delete_networks.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 55917 bytes ==> /create_and_delete_networks.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.10 secs: 55917 bytes ==> /create_and_delete_networks.html
HTTP/1.1 200 0.09 secs: 55917 bytes ==> /create_and_delete_networks.html
done.
Transactions: 100 hits
Availability: 100.00 %
Elapsed time: 0.89 secs
Data transferred: 4.60 MB
Response time: 0.09 secs
Transaction rate: 112.36 trans/sec
Throughput: 5.16 MB/sec
Concurrency: 9.74
Successful transactions: 100
Failed transactions: 0
Longest transaction: 0.15
Shortest transaction: 0.05
FILE: ./siege.log
You can disable this annoying message by editing
the .siegerc file in your home directory; change
Hope this helps.