SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	ProLiant BL20p G2
Zeus:	Zeus 4.2r2

SPECweb99_SSL = 1454

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1451
2	1454
3	1454
Median	1454

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Mar-2004
HTTPS Software	Jan-2004
Operating System	Jul-2004
Supplemental System	Jan-2004

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model ProLiant BL20p G2

Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB(I+D) on chip

Other Cache 2MB L3

Memory 8GB

Disk Subsystem 2x36GB SCSI (15K rpm)

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 5i Plus

Other Hardware Anritsu Multiflow 5128 Switch

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 8.0

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.2r2

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus Binary

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Feb-2004
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Integrated NC7781

# 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 6

Model Compaq ProLiant DL360

Processor 1.0GHz Intel Pemtium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 128MB

Network Controller Alteon ACENIC 1000SX

Operating System Red Hat 7.3

Compiler gcc 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1456

Fileset Size (MB) 4777.52

Notes

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
ulimit -n 10000, set number of open files to 10000, default 8192
net.core.optmem_max=10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.rmem_default=131071, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max=131071, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default=10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max=10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.hot_list_length=300000, maximm number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000, set TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 195584 196096 196608
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
File system mounted with nodiratime and noatime, no inode access time updating
One NIC IRQ bound per logical CPU; timer bound to logical CPU 2, cciss bound to logical CPU3

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus configuration:
errlog %zeushome%/web/log/errors
gid nobody
uid nobody
controlport 9080
controlallow localhost
tuning!bind_any yes
tuning!cache_files 8192
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 4096
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
tuning!num_children 2
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!use_poll yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 5011
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_expiry 120
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_diskcache yes
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 2147483647
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!maxaccept 64

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface
Zeus PEPP Toolkit 0.8 used for dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes

Network Notes

txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
net.ipv4.ip_local_range=1024 65535

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above
ISAPI: HP-20020723-API.tar.gz
ISAPI tuning descriptions: HP-20030414-tunnings.txt
Kernel config: HP-20030414-BL20p_G2.config

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	1451	99.7%	3976.9	366.1	2.73	327.4
2	1454	99.9%	3992.3	364.7	2.74	328.7
3	1454	99.9%	4000.2	363.9	2.75	329.2

Tue Mar 7 16:36:20 2006

First published at SPEC.org on 16-Mar-2004