SPECweb99_SSL Result

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

SPECweb99_SSL = 2569

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2570
2	2568
3	2569
Median	2569

Configuration

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

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant BL20p G3

Processor 3.8GHz 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 PC2-3200 DDR2)

Disk Subsystem 2x146.8GB Ultra320 15Krpm

Disk Controllers hp Smart Array 6i with 128MB BBWC

Other Hardware 1xHP ProCurve 2824 switch

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64) 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 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 2048MB

Network Controller 2xIntegrated NC7781

Operating System Windows Server 2003 Std. Edition

Compiler Mircosoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2572

Fileset Size (MB) 8349.68

Notes

SUT Notes

1 drive RAID 0 used for OS and access log, 1 drive RAID 0 used for file set
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class enclosure
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class Power Subsystem
2xHP BladeSystem Patch Panel

Operating System Notes

Filesystem mounted with noatime,nodiratime - no inode access time updateing, no access control lists
irq_balancer disabled, default enabled
Each NIC irq bound to a seperate 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
1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter #enables source route verification, default 0
456000 > /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
8192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog #, sets maximum queued connection requests before kernel drops them, default 1024
509059 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max #maximum number of open files, default 1024
TSO turned off for all NICs, default on

HTTPS Software Notes

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 yes
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 no
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0
tuning!softservers no
tuning!keepalive_timeout 30
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 2037
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
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
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	2570	99.9%	7054.6	364.6	2.74	328.8
2	2568	99.8%	7037.0	365.6	2.74	327.9
3	2569	99.9%	7048.9	365.0	2.74	328.4

Wed Sep 28 09:50:15 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 28-Sep-2005