siege

brew install siege v4.1.7 GPL-3.0-or-later

HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility

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Runtime dependencies

openssl@4

Caveats

macOS has only 16K ports available that won't be released until socket
TIME_WAIT is passed. The default timeout for TIME_WAIT is 15 seconds.
Consider reducing in case of available port bottleneck.

You can check whether this is a problem with netstat:

    # sysctl net.inet.tcp.msl
    net.inet.tcp.msl: 15000

    # sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.msl=1000
    net.inet.tcp.msl: 15000 -> 1000

Run siege.config to create the ~/.siegerc config file.

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