SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP ProLiant ML570 G3
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 3727

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	3727
2	3728
3	3725
Median	3727

Configuration

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

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant ML570 G3

Processor 3.33GHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+16KBD

Secondary Cache 1MB

Other Cache 8MB L3

Memory 32GB (16x2GB PC2-3200 DDR2)

Disk Subsystem 1x72.8GB 10k U320, 1x146GB 10k U320

Disk Controllers Integrated Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter

Other Hardware 1xHP ProCurve 2848 switch

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP2

File System ext2

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	Aug-2005
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers 4x NC7170 Dual Port

# of Nets 8

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 3.06GHz 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 3728

Fileset Size (MB) 12048.72

Notes

SUT Notes

72.8GB disk used for OS and log, 146GB disk used for the fileset

Operating System Notes

Filesystem mounted with noatime,nodiratime,noacl - 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
IOC0 (port 0 U320) bound to CPU0, default round-robin
IOC1 (port 1 U320) bound to CPU1, default round-robin
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000, default 100
Each NIC's InterruptThrottleRate set to 3000 via modprobe, default 1
ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024
1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter #enables source route verification, default 0
0 > /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
374201 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max #maximum number of open files, default 1024
Timer IRQ locked to CPU0, default round-robin
TSO turned off on all 8 NICs #TCP Segmentation Offload, default on

HTTPS Software Notes

tuning!bind_any no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 484001
tuning!cache_flush_interval 316180000
tuning!cache_small_file 90000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 30212651982
tuning!cache_stat_expire 316180000
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 5048
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
tuning!pipeline_readahead 0
tuning!num_children 8
tuning!num_cgid 8
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 SP2 (2.6.5-7.187-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	3727	100.0%	10311.6	361.5	2.77	331.4
2	3728	100.0%	10244.1	363.8	2.75	329.5
3	3725	99.9%	10217.7	364.8	2.74	328.6

Tue Sep 13 18:49:28 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 13-Sep-2005