SPECweb99_SSL Result

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

SPECweb99_SSL = 2891

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2891
2	2892
3	2878
Median	2891

Configuration

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

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant BL25p

Processor AMD Opteron 254, 2.8GHz

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

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

Secondary Cache 1MB (on chip) per core

Other Cache none

Memory 16GB (8x2GB PC3200 DDR)

Disk Subsystem 1x72.8GB 1x146GB Ultra320 15Krpm

Disk Controllers hp Smart Array 6i with 128MB BBWC

Other Hardware HP BladeSystem p-Class interconnect 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	Sep-2005
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers 1xNC7781, 1xNC7782

# 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 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 2892

Fileset Size (MB) 9374.48

Notes

SUT Notes

1 drive RAID 0 used for OS and access log
1 drive RAID 0 used for file set
HP BladeSystem p-Class Enhanced Server Blade Enclosure
HP BladeSystem p-Class Power Subsystem

Operating System Notes

Filesystem mounted with noatime,nodiratime,noacl - no inode access time updateing, no access control lists
irq_balancer demon disabled, default enabled
Each NIC IRQ bound to two seperate logical CPU, default round-robin
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000, default 100
ulimit -n 124001, 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
384001 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max #maximum number of open files, default 1024
TSO turned off for all NIC ports #TCP Segmentation Offload, default on
Timer IRQ bound to logical processor #1, default round-robin
Storage IRQ bound to logical processor #0, default round-robin

HTTPS Software Notes

tuning!bind_any no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 282011
tuning!cache_flush_interval 180000
tuning!cache_small_file 90000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 12884901888
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31180000
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!pipeline_readahead 0
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
Clients 1 thru 4 speed set to 328, Clients 5 thru 8 speed set to 395, default all clients equal speeds

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	2891	100.0%	8120.7	356.1	2.81	336.5
2	2892	100.0%	8160.1	354.3	2.82	338.2
3	2878	99.5%	8095.7	357.1	2.80	335.5

Wed Sep 28 09:50:20 2005

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