[ Thanks to Amy Newman for this link.
]
“Siege is a fantastic utility for helping with Linux server
management by exposing problems before they go into production.
It’s open source software (GPLv2 or later) and easy to get started
with.“Siege is packaged for Debian and Ubuntu, but it doesn’t look to
be packaged for Fedora and openSUSE (at least in the default
repos). Do remember, though, it’s ‘i’ before ‘e’ — I nearly missed
the package for Ubuntu by searching for ‘seige,’ which (obviously)
doesn’t exist.“The source, of course, is available. Note that the link to the
latest version from the homepage returns an ‘unable to connect’
error (at least as of this writing). However, the pub directory is
available over HTTP even if the FTP server seems to be down.”