SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	HP 9000 Model A500
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 3.3.7

SPECweb99 = 2109

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2109
2	2109
3	2077
Median	2109

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Nov-2000
HTTP Software	Aug-2000
Operating System	Feb-2000
Supplemental System	Aug-2000

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model HP 9000 Model A500

Processor PA8600 550Mhz

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 512KBI+1024KBD on chip

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 8 GB

Disk Subsystem 2 x 18GB (10K rpm)

Disk Controllers 1 HP Ultra2 SCSI LVD

Other Hardware None

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11.ACE (64-bit)

File System See Notes

Other Software A4926A 1000 Base PCI Gb Ethernet
B3929BA HP OnLine JFS

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTP Software Zeus 3.3.7

API ISAPI

Server Cache See Zeus parameters

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Oct-2000
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 2

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1000 Mbps

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 24

Model HP 9000/B180L

Processor 180Mhz PA7300LC

# of Processors 1

Memory 128MByte

Network Controller HP A5230A, PCI 100BaseT

Operating System HPUX 11.0 ACE

Compiler B3901BA B.11.01.20 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2110

Fileset Size (MB) 6871.04

Notes

SUT Notes

chatr +pd 16M +pi 16M on zeus to set page sizes
OnLineJFS used for /logs
All other filesystems are HP-UX HFS; no options specified

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Patches
PHCO_22076 - Libc Cumulative Patch
PHKL_18541 - Updated Linkorder Files
PHNE_20125 - NDD General Patch
PHNE_20316 - Cumulative STREAMS Patch
PHNE_21865 - 1000Base-SX/T Cumulative Patch
PHNE_21905 - LAN Product Cumulative Patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters
tcphashsz=16384, ninode=92000, nfile=180000
maxfiles=60000, maxuprc=100, nproc=200
maxfiles_lim=60000, dbc_max_pct=83, dbc_min_pct=83
maxdsiz=0x18000000, maxssiz=0x10000000, maxswapchunks=4868
maxdsiz_64bit=0X0000000180000000, vps_pagesize=32
vps_ceiling=4096, maxssiz_64bit=0X0000000180000000

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!cache_files 85001
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 9216
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_stat_expire 864000
tuning!cache_flush_interval 864000
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!so_rbuff_size 32768
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 600
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 49001
tuning!sendfile_minsize 9216
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 921632
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!softservers no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled yes
tuning!modules!fastcgi!enabled yes
tuning!use_poll no

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used for most dynamic content
FastCGI used as communication method to manage all the independent CGI processes

Network Notes

2 HP Procurve 1600M Switch
Networking Tuning parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 (Default = 32K)
(Amount of unsent data that triggers write-side flow control)
tcp_conn_request_max=1024 (Default = 20)
(Maximum number of outstanding inbound connection requests.)
tcp_conn_strategy=1 (Default = 0)
(Selects tcp connection strategy.)
Gigabit Tuning parameters:
send_max_bufs=32, recv_max_bufs=12
recv_coal_ticks=10000, send_coal_ticks=1000

Client Notes

ncallout 5000 (increase number of pending timers)
max_thread_proc 800 (allow more threads per process)
nkthread 2048 (maximum number of threads system-wide)

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	2109	100.0%	5865.2	358.3	2.78	333.8
2	2109	100.0%	5820.8	361.0	2.76	331.5
3	2077	98.4%	5780.3	363.6	2.74	329.0

Wed Apr 13 16:54:58 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 14-Nov-2000