SPECweb99 Result =============================================================================== || IBM : Netfinity 8500R || 4248 SPECweb99 Red Hat : TUX 1.0 || || =============================================================================== PERFORMANCE | Conforming Simultaneous Iteration | Connections ---------------+---------------------------- 1 | 4250 2 | 4248 3 | 4140 ---------------+---------------------------- Median | 4248 =============================================================================== Availability Dates All Hardware Jun-2000 HTTP Software Sep-2000 Operating System Sep-2000 Supplemental System Sep-2000 Hardware Vendor IBM Model Netfinity 8500R Processor 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon # Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip Secondary Cache 2MB Other Cache none Memory 8GB Disk Subsystem 5 X 9GB (Seagate ST39103LC) Disk Controllers IBM ServeRaid 3H Other Hardware 4 X ALTEON ACEswitch 180 GbE Switch Software Operating System -- Red Hat Linux 7.0 with Threaded Web Server Add-On File System ext2 Other Software Red Hat 2.4.0-38 Kernel HTTP Software Vendor Red Hat HTTP Software TUX 1.0 API TUX user API Server Cache none Log Mode Binary CLF Test Sponsor Test Date Dec-2000 Tested By IBM SPEC License 11 Network # of Controllers 4 Network Controllers Alteon ACEnic PCI # of Nets 4 Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet Network Speed 1Gb/s MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122) Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122) MTU 1500 Clients # of Clients 16 Model Intellistation Z Pro Processor 450Mhz Pentium II Xeon # of Processors 2 Memory 256MB Network Controller Alteon ACEnic PCI Operating System Windows 2000 Professional Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Benchmark Configuration Requested Connections 4250 Fileset Size (MB) 13717.68 =============================================================================== Notes/Tuning information SUT Notes 1 disk for OS and logfiles 4 disk RAID 0 for web pages Operating System Notes Tuning parameters: - net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, default 0 - net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0 - net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1 - net.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default 1 - net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default 1 - net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000 - net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 16384 65535, default 32768 61000 - net.core.rmem_max = 10485760, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.rmem_default = 10485760, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.wmem_max = 10485760, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.wmem_default = 10485760, default send socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240 - fs.file-max = 40960, maximum number of open files, default 8192 - vm.bdflush = 100 5000 640 2560 150 30000 5000 1884 2 (see tux tuning and setup file) Alteon NIC settings in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/acenic.c - tx_coal_tick = 300, default 400 - rx_coal_tick = 300, default 120 - max_tx_desc = 64, default 32 - max_rx_desc = 32, default 16 Network adapters affinitized 1 per CPU See config file for kernel build information HTTP Software Notes TUX Configuration - net.tux.threads = 4, sets number of TUX threads, default 2 - net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging, default 0 - net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004 - net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000 - net.tux.max_cached_filesize = 100000000, maximum size of cached object, default 100000 - net.tux.serverport = 80 - net.tux.max_backlog = 6000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048 HTTP API Notes Dell Tux API from Dell-20000626.zip Hardware Notes 1 disk for OS and logs, 4 disk RAID web pages =============================================================================== Test Run Details Run Conforming Percent | Throughput Response ops/sec/ Kbits/ Num Connections Conform | ops/sec msec loadgen sec 1 4250 100.0% | 12077.8 351.2 2.84 339.9 => 2 4248 100.0% | 12016.1 353.1 2.83 338.0 3 4140 97.4% | 11693.3 362.8 2.75 329.2