I'm using Siege to act as a cache warmer for Varnish on a wordpress site. I've set up a simple script to grab the latest URL list from a dynamic sitemap, output them to a file, purge the cache using Varnishadm and then run siege against the url list to repopulate the cache.
The problem is the Siege part of the equation. If I run the following command:
/usr/bin/siege -c1000 -d3 -r1 -v -i -f url-list-example.txt
It works fine but this obviously randomly accesses the URL list rather than hit one after another. From what I've read removing the -i flag so that the command is:
/usr/bin/siege -c1000 -d3 -r1 -v -f url-list-dekanta.txt
should mean that Siege runs through the list once and stops however it doesn't do this. Instead it just hits the first URL which is / multiple times and stops.
Could someone please explain what I'm doing wrong with this command please? I've read through the docs and nothing seems to work the way I want it to. Many thanks.
Fixed it. Seems I was over complicating things but thanks to Sjon for helping me revisit what I had previously tried and thought failed with.
To cycle through a URL list Siege doesn't need the -d or -c flags as these are specified for mimicking random user behavior (-c for how many users to mimic -d for the wait time before hits). Removing these flags and just running the simple command:
/usr/bin/siege --reps=once -v -f url-list-example.txt
..resulted in Siege cycling through the list as its supposed to with a default of 15 concurrent users. You can add -c100 or whatever if you want to increase this concurrent amount.