SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard:	hp server rx5670
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.1r4

SPECweb99_SSL = 1520

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1520
2	1519
3	1520
Median	1520

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Sep-2002
HTTPS Software	Sep-2002
Operating System	Sep-2002
Supplemental System	Sep-2002

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model hp server rx5670

Processor 1 GHz Intel Itanium 2

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 256KB unified on chip

Other Cache 3072KB unified on chip

Memory 24 GB

Disk Subsystem 15x18GB(15K rpm), 2x36GB(10K rpm)

Disk Controllers 1xHP A6795A FC Card

Other Hardware HP VA7100 Disk Array

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i v1.6

File System See SUT Notes

Other Software B3910B A.05.36 IPF HP aC++/C

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.1r4

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jun-2002
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers HP A6847A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 4

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 4

Model HP 9000/A500-5X

Processor 550 MHz PA-8600

# of Processors 2

Memory 4 GB

Network Controller HP A4926A Gigabit Ethernet

Operating System HP-UX 11i

Compiler B3901BA B.11.11.04 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1520

Fileset Size (MB) 4982.48

Notes

SUT Notes

vxfs used for OS
1 (36 GB 10K rpm) disk used for OS
All other file systems are HP-UX HFS
1 (36 GB 10K rpm) disk used for the fileset
1 (HP VA7100 Disk Array) used for logs
Bound each Zeus instance to the processor corresponding to its NIC
Processor binding is performed by: mpsched -c cpu# -p pid
chatr +pd 16M +pi 16M on zeus.web binary to set page sizes

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=60 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=60 Min bufer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (5)
maxfiles=60000 Soft File Limit per Process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard File Limit per Process (1024)
maxssiz_64bit=0x0000000180000000 Max Stack Size for 64-Bit Procs (0x00800000)
maxuprc=10000 Max number of user processes (75)
nfile=550000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=250000 Max number of inodes (444)
nkthread=8000 Max number of kernel threads (499)
nproc=1000 Max number of processes (276)
tcphashsz=16384 Relative Scaling Factor for TCP & IP Int. Tables(2048)
vps_ceiling=4096 Max System selected page size [KB] (16)
vps_pagesize=64 Default User page size [KB] (4)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!cache_files 356750
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 0
tuning!cache_large_file 1000000
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 256
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!softservers no
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!maxaccept 1024
security!enabled yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit(0.6) used for SPECweb99_SSL dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=no --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop

Network Notes

Networking Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=1024 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
tcp_conn_strategy=1 Selects TCP connection strategy (0)

Client Notes

HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
ncallout=5000 Increase number of pending timeouts
nkthread=8000 Maximum number of system-wide threads
ninode=5000 Maximum number of inodes (444)
nfile=4096 Maximum number of open files (790)
maxswapchunks=2048 Maximum number of swap chunks (256)

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20020708.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20010917-API.tar.gz

Test Run Details

**Test results for each iteration (median is shaded)**
Iteration	Conforming Connections	Percent Conform	Throughput ops/sec	Response msec	ops/sec/ loadgen	kbit/ sec
1	1520	100.0%	4293.4	353.9	2.82	338.4
2	1519	99.9%	4249.6	357.5	2.80	335.0
3	1520	100.0%	4254.0	357.1	2.80	335.7

Wed Apr 13 17:16:36 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 23-Jul-2002