SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard:	HP 9000 Model A500
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.0r1 64bit

SPECweb99_SSL = 225

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	225
2	225
3	225
Median	225

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Nov-2000
HTTPS Software	Nov-2001
Operating System	Dec-2001
Supplemental System	Dec-2001

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model HP 9000 Model A500

Processor 550 Mhz PA-8600

# Processors 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 512KBI+1024KBD on chip

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 8 GB

Disk Subsystem 1x18GB, 1x36GB (10K rpm)

Disk Controllers 1 C87x UltraWide SE, 1 C896 UltraWide SE

Other Hardware None

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11.11i(64-bit)+patches

File System See SUT Notes

Other Software B3901BA B.11.11.04 HP C/ANSI C

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.0r1 64bit

API ISAPI

Server Cache See Zeus parameters

Log Mode Binary Log Format

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

Network

# of Controllers 1

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 1

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 1

Model HP 9000/A500-5X

Processor 550 Mhz PA-8600

# of Processors 2

Memory 4 GB

Network Controller HP A4926A, PCI Gigabit Ethernet

Operating System HPUX 11.11i (64-bit)

Compiler B3901BA B.11.11.04 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 225

Fileset Size (MB) 839.36

Notes

SUT Notes

All filesystems are HP-UX HFS
1 (36 GB) disk used for file_set

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Internet Operating Environment with following patches:
PHNE_25084 - Cumulative STREAMS Patch
PHNE_25642 - Cumulative ARPA Patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=65 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=65 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=0x10000000 Max Stack Size for 64-Bit Procs (0x00800000)
maxswapchunks=4868 Max number of swap chunks (256)
maxuprc=10000 Max number of user processes (75)
nfile=250000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=150000 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 1048576
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!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
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

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

1 Alteon 180e switch
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)
Gigabit Tunable Parameters:
send_max_buffers=32 Number of send buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_max_buffers=12 Number of send buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (1)
recv_coal_ticks=10000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (0)
send_coal_ticks=1000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (1000)

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

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20020318.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	225	100.0%	624.4	360.2	2.77	333.5
2	225	100.0%	625.6	359.4	2.78	333.6
3	225	100.0%	626.2	359.1	2.78	333.3

Wed Apr 13 17:16:35 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 01-Apr-2002