SPECjEnterprise2010 Result: WebSphere Application Server V8 on IBM System HS22 and DB2 9.7 on IBM System x3850 X5

SPECjEnterprise®2010 Result
Copyright © 2009-2011 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

WebSphere Application Server V8 on IBM System HS22 and DB2 9.7 on IBM System x3850 X5

3,694.35 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS

Submitter:
IBM Corporation

SPEC license # 11

Test date:
May-2011

Software Products
WebSphere Application Server V8
IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)
IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.75)
DB2 9.7 FP3a

Software Configurations
JEE Application Server
Emulator Software Config
Database Software Config
Driver Config

Hardware Systems
JEE AppServer HW
Database Server HW
Load Driver HW
Emulator HW

System Configuration Diagram

Benchmark
Modifications
Configuration
Bill of Materials
Other Info
General Notes
Full Disclosure Archive

SUT Configuration

JEE Server Nodes:	1	DB Server Nodes:	1
JEE Server CPUs:	12 cores, 2 chips	DB Server CPUs:	20 cores, 2 chips
JEE Instances:	4	DB Instances:	1

Other SUT Components:
BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

Benchmark Settings

Dealer Injection Rate:	2,317	Ramp Up Time:	1,200 seconds
DB Load Injection Rate:	3,000	Steady State Time:	3,600 seconds
# of Dealer Agents:	23,170	Ramp Down Time:	300 seconds
# of Manufacturing Agents:	6,951

Detailed Results

Dealer Transaction Mix	Count	Tx. Mix	Failure Count
Purchase	2,094,681	25.04%	2
Manage	2,090,529	24.99%	1
Browse	4,181,661	49.98%	0
Total # Dealer Transactions	8,366,871

Manufacturing Transaction Mix	Count	Tx. Mix	Failure Count
CreateVehicleEJB	2,469,164	50.06%	209
CreateVehicleWS	2,463,629	49.94%	307
Total # Manufacturing Transactions	4,932,793

Response Times	Average	Standard Deviation	Maximum	90th%	Reqd
Purchase	0.520	0.77	9.639	1.450	2.000
Manage	0.329	0.42	12.099	0.780	2.000
Browse	0.631	0.84	6.935	1.850	2.000
CreateVehicleEJB	0.043	0.16	3.936	0.075	5.000
CreateVehicleWS	0.057	0.10	4.009	0.100	5.000

Reproducibility Run (SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS)	3,696.71

WebSphere Application Server V8

Vendor:	IBM Corporation	Availability:	Jun-2011
CTS Version:	6.0	Date Passed CTS:	May-2011
OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
EJB Protocol:	RMI/IIOP

IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)

Vendor:	IBM Corporation	Availability:	Jun-2011
OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)

Vendor:	IBM Corporation	Availability:	Oct-2010
OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.75)

Vendor:	IBM Corporation	Availability:	Oct-2010
OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

DB2 9.7 FP3a

Vendor:	IBM Corporation	Availability:	Oct-2010
OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3

JEE Application Server

JEE Product:	WebSphere Application Server V8
JVM Product:	IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)
JDBC Product:	IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.75)
Hardware:	JEE AppServer HW
# of Instances:	4
Interfaces:
	Web Interface for the Order Domain
	Web Services Interface for the Supplier Domain
	EJB Interface for the Manufacturing Domain
	Web Services Interface for the Manufacturing Domain

Notes / Tuning Information

JVM Parameters:
-Xms2560m -Xmx2560m -Xss128k -Xgcpolicy:gencon -Xnoloa -Xmo500m -Xmn2060m -Xtrace:none -Xlp
-Xgcthreads4 -Xdisableexplicitgc -Dcom.ibm.CORBA.FragmentSize=10000 -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0 -DdisableWSAddressCaching=true
Refer to files appservers/node.resources.xml, and appservers/server.xml
for all server configuration and resource configuration
information

Emulator Software Config

JEE Product:	WebSphere Application Server V8
JVM Product:	IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)
Hardware:	Emulator HW
# of Instances:	1

Notes / Tuning Information

JVM Parameters:
-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Xss128k -Xgcpolicy:gencon -Xnoloa -Xmo512m -Xmn1536m -Xtrace:none -Xlp -DdisableWSAddressCaching=true
-Xgcthreads8 -Xdisableexplicitgc -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0
Refer to files emulator/server.xml
for all server configuration and resource configuration
information

Database Software Config

DB Product:	DB2 9.7 FP3a
Hardware:	Database Server HW
# of Instances:	1
Character Set:	UTF-8

Notes / Tuning Information

DB2_MINIMIZE_LISTPREFETCH=YES
DB2_RESOURCE_POLICY=/home/db2inst2/scripts/loggerpri.cfg
DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON
DB2_KEEPTABLELOCK=CONNECTION
DB2_APM_PERFORMANCE=ON
MAX_COORDAGENTS 2770 automatic
DFT_MON_BUFPOOL on
DFT_MON_LOCK off
DFT_MON_SORT off
DFT_MON_STMT off
DFT_MON_TIMESTAMP off
DFT_MON_UOW off
DFT_MON_TABLE off
CPUSPEED -1
SVCENAME 60004
LOGBUFSZ 4096
LOGPRIMARY 52
SOFTMAX 3000
CHNGPGS_THRESH 99
LOGFILSIZ 65535
LOGRETAIN on
NEWLOGPATH /dev/speclogs/speclogLV
AUTO_MAINT off
AUTO_RUNSTATS off
AUTO_TBL_MAINT off
LOCKLIST 100000
MAXLOCKS 100
MINCOMMIT 1
MON_REQ_METRICS none
MON_ACT_METRICS none
MON_OBJ_METRICS none
O_ORDERLINE, O_ORDER, O_CUSTOMERINVENTORY, S_PURCH_ORDER, M_WORKORDER append on
M_WORKORDER, O_ITEMS, M_INVENTORY, S_SUPPLIER volatile

Driver Config

JVM Product:	IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 Linux x86-32)
Hardware:	Load Driver HW
# of Instances:	3

Notes / Tuning Information

-server -Xms2048M -Xmx2048M -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=0 -Dcom.ibm.websphere.naming.jndicache.cacheobject=none
-Dcom.ibm.websphere.naming.hostname.normalizer=...none... -DdisableWSAddressCaching=true

JEE AppServer HW (SUT hardware)

Hardware Vendor:	IBM Corporation	OS Vendor:	Novell
Model Name:	IBM HS22	OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Processor:	Intel Xeon X5690 (Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.73GHz)	Filesystem:	ext3
MHz:	3467	Disks:	2x146GB 15K SAS
# of CPUs:	12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip (12 HW threads/chip)	Network Interface:	1 x 10GBASE-SR
Memory (MB):	24576	Other Hardware:
DIMM[0] Count:	6	DIMM[0] Size:	4096
L1 Cache:	32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core	# of Systems:	1
L2 Cache:	256 KB I+D on chip per core	H/W Available:	Apr-2011
Other Cache:	12 MB I+D on chip per chip	OS Available:	May-2010

Notes / Tuning Information

fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 250000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 32554432
net.core.wmem_max = 32554432
net.core.somaxconn = 32767
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 20480 174760 32554432
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 20480 174760 32554432
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
vm.nr_hugepages = 8192
ulimit -n 1048576

Network Tuning:
  set txqueuelen 60000
  Stop irqbalance.
  Network interrupts bound to a core corresponding to the server instance.

Server instances were started using taskset, binding 1 instances per chip.

Database Server HW (SUT hardware)

Hardware Vendor:	IBM Corporation	OS Vendor:	Novell
Model Name:	IBM System X3850 X5	OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
Processor:	Intel Xeon E7-4870 (Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.80GHz)	Filesystem:	Reiser
MHz:	2394	Disks:	2x73GB 15K SAS
# of CPUs:	20 cores, 2 chips, 10 cores/chip (20 HW threads/chip)	Network Interface:	1 x 10GBASE-SR
Memory (MB):	131072	Other Hardware:	1xDS5300 Disk System, 4xEXP5000 Expansion Disk Arrays, 64x146GB 15K E-DDM Disks
DIMM[0] Count:	32	DIMM[0] Size:	4096
L1 Cache:	32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core	# of Systems:	1
L2 Cache:	256 KB I+D on chip per core	H/W Available:	Mar-2010
Other Cache:	12 MB I+D on chip per chip	OS Available:	May-2009

Notes / Tuning Information

fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 30000000
net.core.wmem_max = 30000000
net.core.somaxconn = 300000
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
ulimit -n 1048576

Load Driver HW (non-SUT hardware)

Hardware Vendor:	IBM Corporation	OS Vendor:	Novell
Model Name:	IBM BladeCenter HS22	OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Processor:	Xeon X5670	Filesystem:	ext3
MHz:	2933	Disks:	1 x 73.4GB SAS 15K rpm
# of CPUs:	12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip	Network Interface:	1 x 10GBASE-SR
Memory (MB):	20480	Other Hardware:
L1 Cache:	32KB(I)+32KB(D)	# of Systems:	3
L2 Cache:	256 I+D on chip per core	H/W Available:	Nov-2008
Other Cache:	12 MB I+D on chip per chip	OS Available:	May-2010

Notes / Tuning Information

fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 30000000
net.core.wmem_max = 30000000
net.core.somaxconn = 300000
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
ulimit -n 1048576

Emulator HW (non-SUT hardware)

Hardware Vendor:	IBM Corporation	OS Vendor:	Novell
Model Name:	IBM System HS22	OS Name:	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Processor:	Intel Xeon X5690	Filesystem:	ext3
MHz:	3467	Disks:	2x146GB 15K SAS
# of CPUs:	12 cores, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip	Network Interface:	1 x 10GBASE-SR
Memory (MB):	24576	Other Hardware:
L1 Cache:	32KB(I)+32KB(D)	# of Systems:	1
L2 Cache:	256KB(I+D) on chip per core	H/W Available:	Apr-2011
Other Cache:	12MB(I+D) on chip per chip	OS Available:	May-2010

Notes / Tuning Information

fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 4096 512000 1600 9000
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 30000000
net.core.wmem_max = 30000000
net.core.somaxconn = 300000
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
ulimit -n 1048576

Benchmark Modifications
Schema Modifications: Modifications to the schema where made to enable range partitioning. The DDL for creating the range partion tables that were used is included in the FDA under the schema/create_partition.ddl
Load Program Modifications: No modifications to the load programs were made.

Benchmark Modifications

Schema Modifications:

  Modifications to the schema where made to enable range partitioning.
  The DDL for creating the range partion tables that were used is
  included in the FDA under the schema/create_partition.ddl

Load Program Modifications:

  No modifications to the load programs were made.

Benchmark Configuration Information

Isolation Requirement Info:

  The benchmark meets the isolation level requirements by version column
    checking on entities against the database.
  The ItemEnt bean was cached for 20 minute intervals using
    the WebSphere JPA Object Cache mechanism.

Durability Requirement Info:

  To ensure database durability, RAID10 was used for the
    database logs maintained on the external storage.
    A total of 32 x 146GB disks were used for the log.

Storage Requirement Info:

  Over the course of a 85 minute run at an injection rate of
    2317, the database storage for database system increased by
    1.56 GB.  Given a linear scale, a 24 hour run at the same
    injection rate would increase storage for database system
    by 26.43 GB.  One RAID10 disk array was used to create the
    filesystem space for the database.  The array contained
    32 x 146GB disks providing 4672 GB of storage.

Bill of Materials

Supplier  Description                                   Product #          Qty
--------  -------------------------------------------   ----------------   ---
IBM       IBM System x HS22                                7870C8U           1
-          2xIntel Xeon Processor X5690 6C
-            (3.47GHz 12MB L3 Cache 1333MHz 130W)
-          24GB RAM (6x4GB DIMMS), 2x146GB 10k SAS HDD
IBM       3 Year Onsite Repair 24x7 4 Hour Response        6756025
IBM       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server w/ 3yr support      5639S1X           1
IBM       IBM BladeCenter H                                88524TU           1
IBM       BNT Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module            46C7191           1
IBM       10GbE 850 nm Fiber SFP+ Transceiver (SR)         44W4408           1
IBM       3 Year Onsite Repair 24x7 4 Hour Response        40Y5981           1
...
IBM       IBM System x3850 X5                              7143B7U           1
-          2xIntel Xeon Processor E7-4870 10C
-            (2.40GHz 30MB L3 Cache 130W)
-          128GB RAM (32x4GB DIMMS), 2x146GB 15k SAS HDD
IBM       8Gb FC Single-port HBA for IBM System x          42D0501           2
IBM       3 Year Onsite Repair 24x7 4 Hour Response        84Y2233
IBM       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server w/ 3yr support      48153RU           1
IBM       DS5300 Midrange Disk(Dual Controller,8 GB Cache) 1818-53A          1
IBM       IBM EXP5000 Storage Expansion Unit               1812-D1A          4
IBM       4Gbps FC, 146.8 GB/15K DDM                       5510             64
...
IBM       DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.7                D597RLL         20*
-           Lic+SW Maint 12 Months
IBM       DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.7                E00BILL          40
-           SW Maint Rewl 1 Anniv
IBM       WebSphere Application Server V8                  D55W8LL         12**
-           Lic+SW Maint 12 Months
IBM       WebSphere Application Server V8                  E1CBBLL          24
-           SW Maint Rewl 1 Anniv
...
* Note:  Pricing for DB2 is based on Processor Value Units (PVU).  Each Intel core is 70 PVU.
** Note:  Pricing for WebSphere is based on Processor Value Units (PVU).  Each Intel core is 70 PVU.

Other Benchmark Information
DNS round robin load balancing was used and hosted on the database machine All network connections were 10Gbps

General Notes

All exceptions in driver logs are from Optimistic Concurrency Checking.
These exceptions are expected in the benchmark.

The IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers is a type 4 driver.

DB2 uses "Soft" checkpoint to ensure that no updates remain unflushed for
longer than the allowed time.

When DB2 UDB Server changes a database table with an update, insert, or delete
operation, the change is initially made in memory, not on disk. When there is
not enough space in the memory buffer to read in or write additional data pages,
DB2 UDB Server will make space by flushing some modified pages to disk.
Modified pages are also written to disk as part of the "Soft" checkpoint to
ensure that no updates remain unflushed for longer than the allowed time.
Before a change is made to the database, it is first recorded in the
transaction log. This ensures that the database can be recovered completely
in the event of a failure. Using the transaction log, transactions that
started but did not complete prior to a failure can be undone, and
transactions recorded as complete in the transaction log but not yet written
to disk can be redone.

DB2 UDB uses a write-ahead-logging protocol to guarantee recovery. This
protocol uses "Soft" checkpoint to write least-recently-used database pages
to disk independent of transaction commit. However, enough log information to
redo/undo the change to a database pages is committed to disk before the
database page itself is written. This protocol therefore renders checkpoint
unnecessary for DB2 UDB. For a more detailed description of the general
principles of the write-ahead-logging protocol, see the IBM research paper,
ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine Granularity Locking and
Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging," by C. Mohan, Database Technology
Institute, IBM Almaden Research Center. (http:// portal.acm.org/citation.cfm
?id=128770&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=10343790&CFTOKEN=42047146)

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Benchmark run on Tue May 31 21:10:34 CDT 2011 by SPECjEnterprise20101.02
Result submitted on null
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First published at SPEC.org on 17-Jun-2011