SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard:	hp server rp8400
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.1r3

SPECweb99_SSL = 4400

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	4400
2	4400
3	4400
Median	4400

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Aug-2002
HTTPS Software	Jul-2002
Operating System	Mar-2002
Supplemental System	Aug-2002

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model hp server rp8400

Processor PA8700 875Mhz

# Processors 16 cores, 16 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 768KBI+1536KBD on chip

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 64 GB

Disk Subsystem 8x18GB (15K rpm)

Disk Controllers SCSI Ultra 2

Other Hardware Surestore SC10 Disk Array

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i

File System See SUT Notes

Other Software B3913DB C.03.33.01 HP aC++ Compiler

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.1r3

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Aug-2002
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 16

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 16

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 157

Model HP 9000/A180C

Processor 180Mhz PA-7300LC

# of Processors 1

Memory 128MByte

Network Controller HP A5230A, PCI 100BaseT

Operating System HPUX 11i

Compiler B3901BA B.11.11.04 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 4400

Fileset Size (MB) 14200.8

Notes

SUT Notes

All filesystems are HP-UX HFS
1 (18 GB) disk used for OS
1 (HP Surestore SC10 Disk Array) used for fileset and logs
Bound each Zeus instance to the processor corresponding to its NIC
Processor binding is performed by: mpsched -c cpu# -p pid"
chatr +pd 64M +pi 64M on zeus.web binary to set page sizes
chatr +pd 4K +pi 4K on zeus.cgi binary to set page sizes

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Internet Operating Environment with following patches:
PHNE_26728 - Cumulative STREAMS Patch
PHNE_27063 - Cumulative ARPA Patch
PHKL_25388 - Cumulative LAN Products Patch
PHKL_25233 - select(2) and poll(2) hang
PHKL_25389 - Core PM, vPar, Psets Cumulative Patch
PHKL_27278 - mmap io,VM-JFS ddlock,thread perf,user limit
PHNE_26939 - 1000Base-SX/T B.11.11.14 cumulative patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=20 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=20 Min bufer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (5)
maxfiles=60000 Soft File Limit per Process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard File Limit per Process (1024)
maxssiz_64bit=0x180000000 Max Stack Size for 64-Bit Procs (0x00800000)
maxswapchunks=16384 Max number of swap chunks (256)
maxuprc=512 Max number of user processes (75)
nfile=20000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=320000 Max number of inodes (444)
nkthread=8000 Max number of kernel threads (499)
nproc=512 Max number of processes (276)
tcphashsz=16384 Relative Scaling Factor for TCP & IP Int. Tables(2048)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!cache_files 356750
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 90000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 251
tuning!softservers no
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!maxaccept 2048
security!enabled yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit(0.8) used for SPECweb99_SSL dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=no --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop --ssl=yes --64bit=yes

Network Notes

Networking Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=1024 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
tcp_conn_strategy=1 Selects TCP connection strategy (0)

Client Notes

HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
ncallout=5000 Increase number of pending timeouts
nkthread=8000 Maximum number of system-wide threads

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20020723.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20020723-API.tar.gz

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	4400	100.0%	12420.1	353.9	2.82	338.6
2	4400	100.0%	12451.8	353.0	2.83	339.2
3	4400	100.0%	12435.1	353.5	2.83	338.9

Wed Apr 13 17:16:48 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 23-Sep-2002