SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP ProLiant BL25p
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 3720

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	3720
2	3720
3	3720
Median	3720

Configuration

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

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant BL25p

Processor AMD Opteron 275, 2.2GHz

# Processors 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip

Primary Cache 64KBI + 64KBD (on chip) per core

Secondary Cache 1024KB(I+D) (on chip) per core

Other Cache none

Memory 16GB (8x2GB PC3200 DDR)

Disk Subsystem 2x72.8GB Ultra320 15Krpm

Disk Controllers SA-6i

Other Hardware 2xHP BladeSystem interconnect switches

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64) SP1

File System SuSE kernel patch-9962 Release 2030321

Other Software none

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 2

Network Controllers Integrated NC7782

# 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 8

Model HP ProLiant DL360 G3

Processor 2.40GHz 1MB L3 cache Intel Xeon

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

Memory 4096MB

Network Controller 2xIntegrated NC7781

Operating System Windows Server 2003 Std. Edition

Compiler Mircosoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 3720

Fileset Size (MB) 12024.32

Notes

SUT Notes

2xdrives RAID 0 used for OS, log and workload
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class enclosure
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class Power Subsystem

Operating System Notes

Filesystem mounted with noatime,nodiratime - no inode access time updateing, no access control lists
irq_balancer daemon disabled, default enabled
Each NIC IRQ bound to a seperate logical CPU, default round-robin
Timer IRQ bound to logical processor #0, default round-robin
Storage IRQ bound to logical processor #1, default round-robin
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000, default 100
ulimit -n 127015, sets number of open files, default 1024
1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter #enables source route verification, default 0
1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps #turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
2000000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets #sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
30000000 30000000 30000000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem #maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
30000000 30000000 30000000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem #maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
30000000 30000000 30000000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem #maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 31744 32256 32768
10000000 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max #maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
10000000 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default #default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
10000000 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max #maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
10000000 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default #default send socket buffer size, default 65535
10000000 > /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max #default 10240
509059 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max #maximum number of open files, default 1024

HTTPS Software Notes

tuning!bind_any no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 282011
tuning!cache_flush_interval 360000
tuning!cache_small_file 40000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 12884901888
tuning!cache_stat_expire 360000
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!keepalive_timeout 3600
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 2048
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 6037
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
See HP-20030414-tunings.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters

HTTP API Notes

Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
Zeus PEPP configured with the ./Configure --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 kernel with SuSE patch-9962 Release 2030321 (2.6.5-7.151-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	3720	100.0%	10641.0	349.6	2.86	342.7
2	3720	100.0%	10639.8	349.6	2.86	343.1
3	3720	100.0%	10708.2	347.5	2.88	345.0

Tue Aug 2 12:14:27 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 02-Aug-2005