SPECweb99_SSL Result

IBM:	BladeCenter HS20
Zeus:	Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 2354

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2354
2	2355
3	2353
Median	2354

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Oct-2004
HTTPS Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Nov-2003

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model BladeCenter HS20

Processor 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon DP

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 1024KB

Other Cache None

Memory 8GB

Disk Subsystem 1 73GB 10k SCSI Drive
2 73GB 15k SCSI Drive

Disk Controllers Onboard SCSI

Other Hardware 1 IBM HS20 SCSI Storage Expansion Unit

Software

Operating System SLES 9

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r4 (64-bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for Dynamic content

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Sep-2004
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 8

Model IBM eServer xSeries 330

Processor 1133Mhz Pentium III

# of Processors 1

Memory 256MB

Network Controller IBM Netfinity Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Operating System Red Hat 7.3

Compiler gcc version 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2355

Fileset Size (MB) 7656.72

Notes

SUT Notes

One Partition for OS
2 disk configured with software RAID0 for access log and file set

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
- net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, default 0
- net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 456000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- 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.optmem_default = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
- net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
- net.core.netdev.max_backlog = 300000, default 300
- 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
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 8192
- fs.file-max = 254108, increases number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 4096
- NIC's txqueuelen was set to 40000, default 1000
- NIC's IRQ was bound to logical CPU, default unbound
- NIC's InterruptThrottleRate set to 3000 via insmodh, default 1
- irqbalancer service was disabled during run
- ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024
Kernel is standard default SLES 9 (2.6.5-7.97-smp)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
- tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
- tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
- tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
- tuning!maxaccept 2500
- tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
- tuning!unique_bind no
- tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
- tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
- tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
- tuning!cache_files 282011
- tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
- tuning!sendfile yes
- tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
- tuning!softservers no
- tuning!keepalive_timeout 30
- tuning!keepalive_max -1
- tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 7507
- tuning!cbuff_size 65536
- tuning!isapi!enabled yes
- tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
- tuning!modules!cgi!enabled yes
- tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
- tuning!modules!security!enabled yes
- tuning!num_children 8
ISAPI Source code is available in the SPECweb99_SSL support docs as HP-20020724-API.tar.gz

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	2354	100.0%	6461.9	364.3	2.74	330.0
2	2355	100.0%	6462.3	364.5	2.74	329.9
3	2353	99.9%	6452.0	365.0	2.74	329.4

Tue Nov 23 12:09:55 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 23-Nov-2004