SPECweb99_SSL Result

IBM:	eServer xSeries x346
Zeus:	Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 2400

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2396
2	2400
3	2400
Median	2400

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Dec-2004
HTTPS Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Nov-2003

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model eServer xSeries x346

Processor 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon DP

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 1024KB

Other Cache None

Memory 16GB

Disk Subsystem 6 73GB 15k SCSI Drives

Disk Controllers Onboard SCSI

Other Hardware 1 Nortel 8010 GbE Switch

Software

Operating System SLES 9

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for Dynamic content

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Sep-2004
Tested By	IBM
SPEC License	11

Network

# of Controllers 1

Network Controllers Intel Pro 1000 MT Dual Port

# of Nets 2

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 10

Model IBM eServer xSeries 330

Processor 1133Mhz Pentium III

# of Processors 1

Memory 256MB

Network Controller IBM Netfinity Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Operating System Red Hat 7.3

Compiler gcc version 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2400

Fileset Size (MB) 7798.24

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS and web server
5 disks configured with software RAID0 for access log and file set
Memory configuration 8x2GB PC2-3200

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
- net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, default 0
- net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 456000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240
- net.core.optmem_default = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
- net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
- net.core.netdev.max_backlog = 300000, default 300
- net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
- net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
- net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 8192
- fs.file-max = 254108, increases number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 4096
- Each NICs txqueuelen was set to 40000, default 100
- Each NICs IRQ was bound to separate logical CPUs (0 and 3), default unbound
- irqbalancer service was disabled during run
- ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024
Kernel is standard default SLES 9 (2.6.5-7.97-smp)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
- tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
- tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
- tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
- tuning!maxaccept 2500
- tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
- tuning!unique_bind no
- tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
- tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
- tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
- tuning!cache_files 282011
- tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
- tuning!sendfile yes
- tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
- tuning!softservers no
- tuning!keepalive_timeout 30
- tuning!keepalive_max -1
- tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 7507
- tuning!cbuff_size 65536
- tuning!isapi!enabled yes
- tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
- tuning!modules!cgi!enabled yes
- tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
- tuning!modules!security!enabled yes
- tuning!num_children 8
ISAPI Source code is available in the SPECweb99_SSL support docs as HP-20020724-API.tar.gz

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 65535

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	2396	99.8%	6542.8	366.8	2.73	327.9
2	2400	100.0%	6558.3	365.9	2.73	328.4
3	2400	100.0%	6561.4	365.7	2.73	328.5

Wed Oct 13 13:47:29 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 13-Oct-2004