SPECweb99 Result

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 IBM : IBM eServer xSeries 370                          ||     2700 SPECweb99
 Red Hat : TUX 2.0                                      ||        
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PERFORMANCE

               |  Conforming Simultaneous
   Iteration   |       Connections
---------------+----------------------------
      1        |         2698
      2        |         2700
      3        |         2700
---------------+----------------------------
    Median     |         2700

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                              Availability Dates

All Hardware                  Mar-2001
HTTP Software                 Feb-2001
Operating System              Feb-2001
Supplemental System           Feb-2001

                                   Hardware

Vendor                        IBM
Model                         IBM eServer xSeries 370
Processor                     900 MHz Pentium III Xeon
# Processors                  1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip
Primary Cache                 16KBI+16KBD on chip
Secondary Cache               2MB
Other Cache                   none
Memory                        8GB
Disk Subsystem                5 X 18GB (IBM 19K1638)
Disk Controllers              Onboard Adaptec
Other Hardware                3 X ALTEON ACEswitch 180 GbE Switch

                                   Software

Operating System              --
                              RedHat Linux 7.0 with
                              Threaded Web Server Add-On
File System                   ext2
Other Software                None

                                 HTTP Software

Vendor                        Red Hat
HTTP Software                 TUX 2.0
API                           TUX user API
Server Cache                  none
Log Mode                      Binary CLF

                                 Test Sponsor

Test Date                     Feb-2001
Tested By                     IBM
SPEC License                  11

                                    Network

# of Controllers              3
Network Controllers           Alteon ACEnic PCI
# of Nets                     3
Type of Nets                  Gigabit Ethernet
Network Speed                 1Gb/s
MSL (sec)                     30 (Non RFC1122)
Time-Wait (sec)               60 (Non RFC1122)
MTU                           1500

                                    Clients

# of Clients                  15
Model                         Intellistation Z Pro
Processor                     450Mhz Pentium II Xeon
# of Processors               2
Memory                        256MB
Network Controller            Alteon ACEnic PCI
Operating System              Windows 2000 Professional
Compiler                      Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

                            Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections         2700
Fileset Size (MB)             8759.6

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                           Notes/Tuning information

SUT Notes
    1 disk for OS
    3 disk software RAID0, using 2MB chunk size, for web pages
    1 disk for logs

Operating System Notes
    Tuning parameters:
    - net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, 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 = 2000000, 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.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1, allow nonlocal IP addresses, default 0
    Alteon NIC settings in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/acenic.c
    - tx_coal_tick = 300, default 400
    - rx_coal_tick = 300, default 120
    - max_tx_desc = 64, default 32
    - max_rx_desc = 32, default 16
    See config file for kernel build information

HTTP Software Notes
    TUX Configuration
    - net.tux.threads = 1, sets number of TUX threads, default 2
    - net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging, default 0
    - net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
    - net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000
    - net.tux.max_cached_filesize = 100000000, maximum size of cached object, default 100000
    - net.tux.serverport = 80

HTTP API Notes
    Tux API from Compaq-20010122-DL320-API.tar.gz

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Test Run Details
 
    Run    Conforming  Percent  |  Throughput  Response ops/sec/  Kbits/
    Num    Connections Conform  |  ops/sec     msec     loadgen   sec
      1     2698        99.9%   |   7532.2       358.2    2.79     333.6
  =>  2     2700       100.0%   |   7580.1       355.9    2.81     335.7
      3     2700       100.0%   |   7584.9       355.7    2.81     335.6