SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP ProLiant BL20p G3
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus V4.2r4 (64 bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 2394

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2379
2	2395
3	2394
Median	2394

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jul-2005
HTTPS Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Apr-2005

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant BL20p G3

Processor 3.6GHz Intel Xeon

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

Primary Cache 12KBI+16KBD

Secondary Cache 2MB L2

Other Cache none

Memory 8GB (4x2GB PC3200 DDR2)

Disk Subsystem 2x72.8GB Ultra320 15Krpm

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 6i with 128MB BBWC

Other Hardware 2xHP BladeSystem Patch Panel

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64) SP1

File System ext2

Other Software NC7781 - BCM5700 v8.1.55 (04-08-2005)
NC320i - BNX2 v1.1.15a (03-09-2005)

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r4 (64 bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for dynamic content

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary Common Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jun-2005
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers 2xIntegrated NC7781, 2xIntegrated NC320i

# 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 ProLiant DL360 G3

Processor 3.06GHz 1MB L3 cache Intel Xeon

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

Memory 1024MB

Network Controller Integrated NC7781

Operating System Windows Server 2003 Std. Edition

Compiler Mircosoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2400

Fileset Size (MB) 7798.24

Notes

SUT Notes

Each drive in blade server connected to the HP SA-6i controller and setup as RAID 0
1. drive used for OS and access-log; 2. drive used for the file-set
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class enclosure
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class power subsystem

Operating System Notes

File system mounted with noacl,noatime,nodiratime - no access control lists, no inode access time updateing
irq_balancer daemon disabled, default enabled
Each NIC IRQ bound to a seperate logical CPU, default round-robin
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000, default 100
ulimit -n 12000, sets number of open files, default 1024
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter= 1 ,enables source route verification, default 0
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets= 456000 ,sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem= 30000000 30000000 30000000 ,maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem= 30000000 30000000 30000000 ,maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem= 30000000 30000000 30000000 ,maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 31744 32256 32768
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max= 10000000 ,maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default= 10000000 ,default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max= 10000000 ,maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default= 10000000 ,default send socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max= 10000000 ,maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
/proc/sys/fs/file-max= 509059 ,maximum number of open files, default 1024
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog= 8192 ,sets length of per-socket backlog queue, default 1024
Timer IRQ bound to logical processor #3, default round-robin
Storage IRQ bound to logical processor #2, default round-robin
TSO turned off on all 4 NICs, default on

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Web Server Tunables ($ZEUSHOME/web/gloabl.cfg)
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
See HP-20030414-tunings.txt for a description of these Zeus tuning parameters

HTTP API Notes

Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
API configured with --ssl=yes

Client Notes

The alternate performance neutral alt.Win32 client was used.
Tcpip\Parameters\MaxUserPort=0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534
Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay=60, sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122),default 240
Tcpip\Parameters\MaxFreeTwTcbs=100000, sets maximum number of TIME_WAIT tcbs to 100,000
Tcpip\Parameters\TcpWindowSize=65535, sets TCP receive window size, default 8192

Other Notes

Server kernel: default SLES 9 SP1 (2.6.5-7.139-smp)

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	2379	99.1%	6546.7	366.5	2.73	327.0
2	2395	99.8%	6553.2	366.3	2.73	327.2
3	2394	99.8%	6558.2	366.0	2.73	327.4

Tue Jul 5 17:14:45 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 05-Jul-2005