SPECweb99_SSL Result =============================================================================== || IBM : eServer xSeries 365 || 2259 SPECweb99_SSL Zeus : Zeus V4.2r2 || || =============================================================================== PERFORMANCE | Conforming Simultaneous Iteration | Connections ---------------+---------------------------- 1 | 2259 2 | 2259 3 | 2242 ---------------+---------------------------- Median | 2259 =============================================================================== Availability Dates All Hardware Dec-2003 HTTPS Software Mar-2003 Operating System Jun-2003 Supplemental System Mar-2003 Hardware Vendor IBM Model eServer xSeries 365 Processor 2.8GHz Intel Xeon MP # Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip Secondary Cache 512KB Other Cache 2GB L3 cache Memory 16 GB Disk Subsystem 6 36GB 15KRPM Ultra 320 SCSI Drives Disk Controllers On-board LSI controller Other Hardware 1 Nortel Networks Switch Software Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.3 File System ext2 Other Software GCC 2.96 HTTPS Software Vendor Zeus HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r2 API Zeus PEPP 0.8 ISAPI used for Dynamic content Server Cache None Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF Test Sponsor Test Date Nov-2003 Tested By IBM SPEC License 11 Network # of Controllers 1 Network Controllers Intel PRO 1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter # 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 10 Model IBM eServer xSeries 330 Processor 933Mhz Pentium III # of Processors 1 Memory 512MB Network Controller IBM Netfinity Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.3 Compiler GCC 2.96 Benchmark Configuration Requested Connections 2260 Fileset Size (MB) 7349.28 =============================================================================== Notes/Tuning information SUT Notes 3 U320 15K 36GB SCSI disk with EXT2 for OS/fileset 3 U320 15K 36GB SCSI disk with EXT2 for logs Software RAID0 strip is used for for fileset and logs Memory configuration 8 x 2GB PC2100 DIMMs 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.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 450000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000 - net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535 - net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240 - net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128 - net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760 - net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072 - net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768 - fs.file-max = 524288, maximum number of open files, default 1024 - net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300" Kernel is Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.7xcustom). See IBM-20031211-config.txt One NIC IRQ bound to logical processor 0 on physicalprocessor 0, and second NIC irq bound to logical processor 0 on physical processor 1 Each NIC's TX queue length set to 20000 via ifconfig, default 100 Log & fileset partition mounted with "noatime,nodiratime", no inode access time updating HTTPS Software Notes Zeus Configuration - tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576 - tuning!softservers no - tuning!cbuff_size 65536 - tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes - tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 7573 - tuning!sendfile yes - tuning!sendfile_minsize 0 - tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0 - tuning!listen_queue_size 8192 - tuning!keepalive_timeout 20 - tuning!keepalive_max 1000 - tuning!maxaccept 64 - tuning!modules!cgi!enabled yes - tuning!isapi!enabled yes - modules!security!enabled yes Virtual Server Configuration - ip_name = server - bindaddr = 192.0.1.100,192.0.2.100 See IBM-Zeus-tuning-20021224.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters ISAPI Source code is available in the SPECweb99_SSL support docs as HP-20020724-API.tar.gz HTTP API Notes Zeus ISAPI interface used Zeus PEPP 0.8 ISAPI used for Dynamic content ./Configure --ssl=yes Network Notes Networking Tunable Parameters: e1000 parameter: TxIntDelay = 32, change transmit interrupt delay, default 64 Client Notes Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 65535 =============================================================================== Test Run Details Run Conforming Percent | Throughput Response ops/sec/ Kbits/ Num Connections Conform | ops/sec msec loadgen sec 1 2259 100.0% | 6216.4 363.7 2.75 329.5 => 2 2259 100.0% | 6214.2 363.9 2.75 329.3 3 2242 99.2% | 6164.3 366.9 2.73 326.6