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=head2 NAME

bombardment - Run $_PROGRAM with an ever-increasing number of users

=head2 SYNOPSIS

bombardment [urlfile] [clients] [increment] [trials] [delay] bombardment urls.txt 5 10 20 1

=head2 DESCRIPTION

bombardment is part of the $_PROGRAM distribution. It calls $_PROGRAM with an initial number of
clients. When that run finishes, it immediately calls siege again with that number of clients plus
the increment.  It does this the number of times specified in the fourth argument.

=head2 OPTIONS

urlfile
    The name of the file containing one or more URLs for siege to test.

clients
    The initial number of clients to be used on the first run.

increment
    The number of clients to add to each ensuing run.

trials
    The number of times to run siege.

delay
    The is the amount of time, in seconds, that each client will wait
    between requests.  The $_PROGRAM default is overridden by bombardment

=head2 SEE ALSO

siege(1), siege2csv(1)

=head2 AUTHOR

Peter Hutnick, et al.

