SPECweb99 Result

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 Dell : PowerEdge 2500                                  ||     3222 SPECweb99
 Red Hat : TUX 2.0                                      ||        
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PERFORMANCE

               |  Conforming Simultaneous
   Iteration   |       Connections
---------------+----------------------------
      1        |         3218
      2        |         3222
      3        |         3224
---------------+----------------------------
    Median     |         3222

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                              Availability Dates

All Hardware                  Apr-2001
HTTP Software                 Jan-2001
Operating System              Sep-2000
Supplemental System           Jan-2001

                                   Hardware

Vendor                        Dell
Model                         PowerEdge 2500
Processor                     1000MHz Pentium III
# Processors                  2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip
Primary Cache                 16KBI+16KBD on chip
Secondary Cache               256KB ATC
Other Cache                   None
Memory                        4 GB
Disk Subsystem                1 9GB 10K, 5 18gig 15K RPM drives
Disk Controllers              Onboard Adaptec 7899
Other Hardware                4 Alteon ACEswitch 180

                                   Software

Operating System              Red Hat Linux 7.0 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                     Mar-2001
Tested By                     Dell
SPEC License                  55

                                    Network

# of Controllers              4
Network Controllers           Alteon AceNIC 1000SX
# of Nets                     4
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                  20
Model                         Dell Precision 410
Processor                     450MHz Pentium II
# of Processors               2
Memory                        128MB
Network Controller            Alteon AceNIC 1000SX
Operating System              Windows 2000 Professional
Compiler                      Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

                            Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections         3225
Fileset Size (MB)             10438.32

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                           Notes/Tuning information

SUT Notes
    1 disk for OS and logs
    5 disk software RAID1 mirror for fileset.

Operating System Notes
    Two NIC IRQs bound per CPU.
    Each NIC's TX queue length set to 10000 via ifconfig, default 1000
    File systems mounted with "noatime,check=none"; no inode access time updating, no check on mount
    net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
    net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
    net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default on
    net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
    net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/default/max TCP read buffer, default 4096 87380 174760
    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP write buffer, default 4096 16384 131072
    net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
    net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
    net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
    net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
    net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
    net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
    net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
    net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
    net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
    See .config file for kernel build information

HTTP Software Notes
    Each TUX thread's listening address bound to 2 NICs' associated networks
    net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging of requests, default 0
    net.tux.logentry_align_order = 0, sets alignment of log entry records in logfile, default 5
    net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
    net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000

Client Notes
    Tcpip/Parameters/MaxUserPort = 0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534.

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Test Run Details
 
    Run    Conforming  Percent  |  Throughput  Response ops/sec/  Kbits/
    Num    Connections Conform  |  ops/sec     msec     loadgen   sec
      1     3218        99.8%   |   9023.4       357.0    2.80     334.2
  =>  2     3222        99.9%   |   9040.7       356.3    2.80     335.1
      3     3224       100.0%   |   9021.9       357.0    2.80     334.6