SPECweb99_SSL Result

IBM:	eServer xSeries 255
Zeus:	Zeus V4.2r2

SPECweb99_SSL = 2110

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2110
2	2110
3	2110
Median	2110

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2003
HTTPS Software	Mar-2002
Operating System	Jul-2002
Supplemental System	May-2002

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model eServer xSeries 255

Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon MP

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache 2MB L3

Memory 12GB

Disk Subsystem 6 36GB Ultra 320 SCSI Drives

Disk Controllers Onboard SCSI

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 2110

Fileset Size (MB) 6871.04

Notes

SUT Notes

- 6 disk Software RAID 0 for File Set and Logs
- 1 partition for OS
- Memory configuration 12 x 1GB 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 = 400000, 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 6607
- tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
- tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
- tuning!keepalive_timeout 20
- tuning!keepalive_max 2100
- 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

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	2110	100.0%	5821.8	362.7	2.76	331.5
2	2110	100.0%	5824.3	362.5	2.76	331.6
3	2110	100.0%	5824.2	362.5	2.76	331.6

Mon Apr 25 14:05:31 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 22-Jul-2003