I tried siege a lot, but could never get it to really use all cores on the
server, I found the tool wrk much more useful for load testing.
On Mar 18, 2015 2:31 AM, "halozen" <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> 2 nginx 1.4.6 web servers - ocfs cluster, web root inside mounted LUN
> from SAN storage
> 2 MariaDB 5.5 servers - galera cluster, different network segment than
> nginx web servers
>
> nginx servers each two sockets quad core xeon, 128 gb ram
> Load balanced via F5 load balancer (round-robin, http performance)
>
> Based on my setup above, what options that I should use with siege to
> perform load term to at least 5000 concurrent users?
>
> There is a time when thousands of student storms university's web
> application.
>
> Below is result for 300 concurrent users.
>
> # siege -c 300 -q -t 1m domain.com
>
> siege aborted due to excessive socket failure; you
> can change the failure threshold in $HOME/.siegerc
>
> Transactions: 370 hits
> Availability: 25.38 %
> Elapsed time: 47.06 secs
> Data transferred: 4.84 MB
> Response time: 20.09 secs
> Transaction rate: 7.86 trans/sec
> Throughput: 0.10 MB/sec
> Concurrency: 157.98
> Successful transactions: 370
> Failed transactions: 1088
> Longest transaction: 30.06
> Shortest transaction: 0.00
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,257373,257373#msg-257373
>
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