SPECmail2001 Result Intrastore 2001 - Redhat Linux 7.2 SPECmail2001 msgs/min = 2,500 Valid Result SPEC license # 2018, Tested by: Syntegra Test date: Apr-2002, Hardware Avail: Aug-2001, Software Avail: Feb-2002 2,500 SPECmail2001 messages per minute is equal to 500,000 SPECmail2001_users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Results --------------- Response Required Percentage Compliant Function time limit Percentage 80% 100% 120% (seconds) Compliant SMTP Connect 5 >95% 99.98% 99.97% 99.96% SMTP Data 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% POP Connect 5 >95% 99.98% 99.98% 99.96% POP Status 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 21.86% POP Retrieve 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 19.91% POP Delete 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 22.46% Delivery Time 60 >95% 99.06% 99.15% 97.22% Error Rate NA <1% 0.00% 0.00% 0.56% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMTP Server + POP Server (3 systems) Software Software: Intrastore 2001 Availability: Mar-2001 Operating System: Redhat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) File System: EXT3 Hardware Vendor: Compaq Model Name: DL380 Availability: Jun-2001 Disk Subsystem: 2 x 18GB SCSI Memory (MB): 1024 Network: Compaq NC3163 10/100 (2) # of Systems: 3 CPU: Pentium III CPU MHz: 1000 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip Primary Cache: 16KBI + 16KBD on chip Secondary Cache: 256KB Other Cache: N/A Other: Disks in RAID 1 config Notes / Tuning Information Second network card has dedicated route to NetApp RAID-1 provided by integrated Compaq SmartArray controller MSL is 30 seconds TIMEWAIT is 60 seconds SMTPserver options: -Ca -rt 900 -Cr 200 -CD -na -I SMTP-out -D syntegra.com -Sc 1000 -S imsd options: -Vd -L /var/adm/imsd.log -tpool 50 -tmax 125 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Generator (3 systems) Software JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode) (no JIT) Availability: Feb-2002 Operating System: Redhat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) File System: EXT3 Hardware Vendor: Compaq Model Name: DL380 Availability: Jul-2001 Disk Subsystem: 2 x 18GB SCSI Memory (MB): 1024 Network: Compaq NC3163 10/100 (2) # of Systems: 3 CPU: Pentium III CPU MHz: 1000 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip Primary Cache: 16KBI + 16KBD on chip Secondary Cache: 256KB Other Cache: N/A Other: Disks in RAID 1 config Notes / Tuning Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Balancer + LDAP Server (1 system) Software Software: Aphelion 2001 Availability: Mar-2001 Operating System: Redhat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) File System: EXT3 Hardware Vendor: Gateway Model Name: 6400 Availability: Aug-2001 Disk Subsystem: 1 x 9GB SCSI Memory (MB): 640 Network: Intel 10/100 # of Systems: 1 CPU: Pentium III CPU MHz: 933 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip Primary Cache: 16KBI + 16KBD on chip Secondary Cache: 256KB Other Cache: N/A Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information Load balancing was provided by the Linux Virtual Server Project found at www.linuxvirtualserver.org SMTP and POP connections were load-balanced using a least-connection scheduling algorithm Direct routing was used to route the load balanced connections between servers The kernel was patched with ipvs-1.0.1 patch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail Sink + Benchmark Manager + Load Generator (2 systems) Software JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode) (no JIT) Availability: Feb-2002 Operating System: Redhat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18) File System: EXT3 Hardware Vendor: Dell Model Name: Poweredge 6300 Availability: Aug-1999 Disk Subsystem: 1 x 9GB SCSI Memory (MB): 1024 Network: 3Com 905c 100Mb # of Systems: 2 CPU: Pentium III CPU MHz: 500 CPUs Enabled: 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip Primary Cache: 16KBI + 16KBD on chip Secondary Cache: 512Kb Other Cache: N/A Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Notes / Tuning Information A Network Appliance F820 with 9 36GB drives in a single raid group was used to store the mailboxes via NFS. It was mounted with the NFS options: vers=3,tcp,noatime,wsize=32768,rsize=32768 Aphelion 2001 was used for the LDAP server. Linux tuning paremeters: echo 4096 >> /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog echo 2000000 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default echo 1048576 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max A 3Com 3300 switch (24 port 10/100Mb) was used for LAN connectivity. Description of imsd options used: -Vd disable DNS lookup for clients -L name of an alternate debug log -tpool minimum number of available processing threads (default = 16) -tmax maximum number of processing threads allowed (default = 16384) Description of SMTPserver options used: -Ca host:service name of imsd administrative service -rt read timeout in seconds -Cr recipient number threshold causing queueing at low priority -CD enable automatic creation of mailbox directories -na Do not send AUTH -I name of the SMTP input queue (default is SMTP-in) -D limit delivery/relaying to allowed deliver/relay domains -Sc per client session threshold -S total session threshold -ar avoid reverse host address lookup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this result, please contact the tester. For other inquiries, please contact webmaster@spec.org Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Benchmark run on Wed Apr 17 18:12:47 CDT 2002 by SPECmail2001 v1.01 Report generated on Mon Apr 25 17:25:12 EDT 2005 by SPECmail2001 v1.05 HTML Formatter