SPECweb99_SSL Result

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 IBM : BladeCenter HS20                              ||     1304 SPECweb99_SSL
 Zeus : Zeus V4.2r2                                  ||        
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PERFORMANCE

               |  Conforming Simultaneous
   Iteration   |       Connections
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      1        |         1304
      2        |         1305
      3        |         1304
---------------+----------------------------
    Median     |         1304

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                              Availability Dates

All Hardware                  Sep-2003
HTTPS Software                Mar-2002
Operating System              Jul-2002
Supplemental System           May-2002

                                   Hardware

Vendor                        IBM
Model                         BladeCenter HS20
Processor                     3.06 GHz Intel Xeon
# Processors                  2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip
Primary Cache                 12KBI+8KBD on chip
Secondary Cache               512KB
Other Cache                   None
Memory                        8GB
Disk Subsystem                2 40GB IDE Drives
Disk Controllers              Onboard IDE
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                     Jul-2003
Tested By                     IBM
SPEC License                  11

                                    Network

# of Controllers              1
Network Controllers           Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
# of Nets                     1
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                  9
Model                         IBM eServer xSeries 330
Processor                     1133Mhz 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         1306
Fileset Size (MB)             4299.28

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                           Notes/Tuning information

SUT Notes
    - 2 disk Software RAID 0 for File Set and Logs
    - 1 partition for OS
    - Memory configuration 4 x 2GB DIMMs

Operating System Notes
    Tuning parameters:
    - net.ipv4.ip_forward=0, 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 = 330000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
    - net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
    - net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
    - 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
    Kernel is Red Hat 2.4.18-27.7x
    Kernel config is located in support docs as IBM-20030630-kernel.txt

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 5501
    - tuning!sendfile yes
    - tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
    - tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
    - tuning!keepalive_timeout 20
    - tuning!keepalive_max 1900
    - tuning!maxaccept 64
    - modules!cgi!enabled yes
    - modules!isapi!enabled yes
    Virtual Server Configuration
    - ip_name = server
    - bindaddr = 192.0.1.100
    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 --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes --locking=lockf --ssl=yes --64bit=no

Network Notes
    txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100

Client Notes
    Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
    net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 65535

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Test Run Details
 
    Run    Conforming  Percent  |  Throughput  Response ops/sec/  Kbits/
    Num    Connections Conform  |  ops/sec     msec     loadgen   sec
      1     1304        99.8%   |   3564.5       366.5    2.73     328.2
      2     1305        99.9%   |   3566.0       366.3    2.73     328.0
  =>  3     1304        99.8%   |   3567.0       366.2    2.73     328.2