SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	ProLiant BL20p G2
Zeus:	Zeus 4.2r2

SPECweb99_SSL = 1242

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1242
2	1242
3	1241
Median	1242

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2003
HTTPS Software	Mar-2003
Operating System	Nov-2002
Supplemental System	Mar-2003

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model ProLiant BL20p G2

Processor 3060MHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache None

Memory 8 GB

Disk Subsystem 2x36.4GB SCSI (15K rpm)

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 5i Controller

Other Hardware Anritsu MultiFlow 5128 Switch

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 8.0

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.2r2

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Apr-2003
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Integrated NC7781 1000TX

# 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 4

Model Compaq ProLiant DL380

Processor 1.0GHz Intel Pentium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 128MB

Network Controller Alteon ACENIC 1000SX

Operating System Red Hat 7.3

Compiler gcc 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1242

Fileset Size (MB) 4094.32

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS and logs
1 disk for fileset

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
ulimit -n 10000, set number of open files to 10000, default 1024
net.core.optmem_max=10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.rmem_default=131071, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max=131071, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default=10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max=10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.hot_list_length=300000, maximm number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000, set TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 195584 196096 196608
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1,allows processes to bind to non-local IP adresses
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turn SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
File systems mounted with "noatime,nodiratime", no inode access time updating
NICs bound to CPUs 0 and 1

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!cache_files 8192
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_diskcache yes
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 5011
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_expiry 120
tuning!num_children 4
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit(0.8) used for SPECweb99_SSL dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes

Network Notes

txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100

Client Notes

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

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See Above
ISAPI: HP-20020723.-API.tar.gz
ISAPI tuning descriptions: HP-20030414-tunings.txt
Kernel config: HP-20030414-BL20pG2.config

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	1242	100.0%	3421.8	363.0	2.76	330.2
2	1242	100.0%	3420.6	363.1	2.75	330.0
3	1241	99.9%	3422.5	363.0	2.76	330.3

Wed Apr 13 17:16:57 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 29-Apr-2003