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Mirapoint MSR 2.9 - M2500 SPECmail2001 msgs/min = 357
SPEC license # 69 Tested by:
Mirapoint
Test date:
Jun-2001
Hardware Avail:
Apr-2001
Software Avail:
Apr-2001

357 SPECmail2001 messages per minute is equivalent to 71,428 SPECmail2001_users.

Detail Summary | General Notes
System configurations: Internet Message Server - Message Store | Benchmark Manager | Load Generator | SMTP Sink | Configuration diagram
Detailed results: Detailed Results 80% load | Detailed Results 100% load | Detailed Results 120% load


Summary Results
Function Response
time limit
(seconds)
Required
Percentage
Compliant
Percentage Compliant
80% 100% 120%
SMTP Connect 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 97.06%
SMTP Data 5 >95% 100.00% 99.99% 97.17%
POP Connect 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
POP Status 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
POP Retrieve 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
POP Delete 5 >95% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Delivery Time 60 >95% 99.39% 98.77% 5.36%
Error Rate NA <1% 0.00% 0.00% 14.41%

Internet Message Server - Message Store (1 system)
Software
System Release: MSR 2.9 Operating System: MOS
Availability: Apr-2001 File System: MessageBase (tm)
Hardware
Vendor: Mirapoint CPU: Intel PIII
Model Name: M2500 CPU MHz: 1000
Availability: Apr-2001 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip
Disk Subsystem: 7 x 36GB 10K RPM FCAL Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 16KB(D) on chip
Memory (MB): 1024 Secondary Cache: 512KB
Network: Intel 10/100 Pro Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 1 Other: 3xRAID1 + Hot-spare
Notes / Tuning Information
Hostname: mperf5

Licenses: User-limit unlimited, UPS Removal, POP unlimited users

CLI configuration commands:

    # Don't send system alerts, etc. to customercare@mirapoint.com
    conf disable customercare

    # Accept mail for the local domain
    maildom add local.p.net

    # Relay mail for the remote domain
    relay add remote.p.net

MSL is 30 seconds (not configurable)

TIME_WAIT is 60 seconds (not configurable)

MSS is 1460 bytes (not configurable)

Benchmark Manager (1 system)
Software
JVM: Sun Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.2.2_008 (symcjit) Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (service pack 5)
Availability: Apr-2001 File System: FAT
Hardware
Vendor: Hewlett-Packard CPU: AMD-K6-2
Model Name: Pavilion 4440 CPU MHz: 333
Availability: Jan-2000 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 4GB EIDE Primary Cache: 32KB(I) + 32KB(D) on chip
Memory (MB): 156 Secondary Cache: 512KB
Network: Intel 10/100 Pro Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information
Hostname: operf9

MaxUserPort set to value 65534

Load Generator (2 systems)
Software
JVM: Sun Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.2.2_008 (symcjit) Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (service pack 5)
Availability: Apr-2001 File System: NTFS
Hardware
Vendor: FIT CPU: Intel PIII
Model Name: Server-1000 CPU MHz: 800
Availability: Jun-2000 CPUs Enabled: 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip
Disk Subsystem: 1 x 30GB EIDE Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 16KB(D) on chip
Memory (MB): 256 Secondary Cache: 256KB
Network: Intel 10/100 Pro Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 2 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information
Hostnames: operf10, operf11

MaxUserPort set to value 65534

SMTP Sink (1 system)
Software
JVM: Sun Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.2.2_008 (symcjit) Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (service pack 5)
Availability: Apr-2001 File System: NTFS
Hardware
Vendor: Dell CPU: Intel PIII
Model Name: PowerEdge 1400 CPU MHz: 933
Availability: Jun-2000 CPUs Enabled: 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip
Disk Subsystem: 2 x 36GB U160 SCSI Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 16KB(D) on chip
Memory (MB): 768 Secondary Cache: 256KB
Network: 3COM 3C985B-SX (Gigabit EtherLink) Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information
Hostname: operf4

Comment out line for SMTP in /WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/SERVICES
(required to allow the mail sink to bind to port 25)

MaxUserPort set to value 65534


Detailed Results -- 80% Load
Load User Count Message Rate
(msg/min)
Attempted 57,142 286
Actual 57,200 286
Function Attempts # Pass
QoS
% Pass
QoS
SMTP Connect 32,589 32,589 100.00%
SMTP Hello 32,589 32,589 100.00%
SMTP Mail From 32,589 32,589 100.00%
SMTP Rcpt To 65,785 65,785 100.00%
SMTP Data 32,593 32,593 100.00%
SMTP Quit 32,267 32,267 100.00%
POP Connect 34,219 34,219 100.00%
POP User ID 34,219 34,219 100.00%
POP Password 34,219 34,219 100.00%
POP Status 34,219 34,219 100.00%
POP Retrieve 34,750 34,750 100.00%
POP Delete 34,657 34,657 100.00%
POP Quit 34,122 34,122 100.00%
Delivery Time 330 328 99.39%
SMTP Data Response Time 32,593 32,268 99.00%
POP Retrieve Response Time 34,750 34,704 99.87%
Remote Message Delivery 31,107 30,783 98.96%

Counter

Value
SMTP Connect Error 0
SMTP Protocol Error 0
SMTP Disconnect 325
SMTP Session 32,267
SMTP To Local 34,678
SMTP To Remote 31,107
SINK Connect Error 0
POP Connect Error 0
POP Protocol Error 0
POP Disconnect 93
POP Session 34,122
Delivery Time Connect Error 0
Function Minimum Time
(millisec)
Maximum Time
(millisec)
Average Time
(millisec)
SMTP Connect 0 1,963 39.08
SMTP Hello 0 2,003 45.30
SMTP Mail From 0 2,083 42.38
SMTP Rcpt To 0 921 29.39
SMTP Data 0 661 29.75
SMTP Quit 0 1,582 11.62
POP Connect 0 571 10.60
POP User ID 0 350 15.04
POP Password 0 971 75.71
POP Status 0 300 3.09
POP Retrieve 0 450 29.26
POP Delete 0 340 5.38
POP Quit 0 1,021 22.32
Function Minimum Size
(KB)
Maximum Size
(KB)
Average Size
(KB)
SMTP Data (KB up) 1 2,674 23.13
POP Retrieve (KB down) 1 2,675 24.32


Detailed Results -- 100% Load
Load User Count Message Rate
(msg/min)
Attempted 71,428 357
Actual 71,000 355
Function Attempts # Pass
QoS
% Pass
QoS
SMTP Connect 40,368 40,368 100.00%
SMTP Hello 40,368 40,368 100.00%
SMTP Mail From 40,368 40,355 99.97%
SMTP Rcpt To 79,304 79,304 100.00%
SMTP Data 40,374 40,370 99.99%
SMTP Quit 39,973 39,970 99.99%
POP Connect 42,742 42,742 100.00%
POP User ID 42,742 42,742 100.00%
POP Password 42,744 42,744 100.00%
POP Status 42,744 42,744 100.00%
POP Retrieve 42,063 42,063 100.00%
POP Delete 41,960 41,960 100.00%
POP Quit 42,660 42,660 100.00%
Delivery Time 408 403 98.77%
SMTP Data Response Time 40,374 39,969 99.00%
POP Retrieve Response Time 42,063 42,008 99.87%
Remote Message Delivery 38,242 37,876 99.04%

Counter

Value
SMTP Connect Error 0
SMTP Protocol Error 0
SMTP Disconnect 402
SMTP Session 39,973
SMTP To Local 41,058
SMTP To Remote 38,242
SINK Connect Error 0
POP Connect Error 0
POP Protocol Error 0
POP Disconnect 103
POP Session 42,660
Delivery Time Connect Error 0
Function Minimum Time
(millisec)
Maximum Time
(millisec)
Average Time
(millisec)
SMTP Connect 0 4,426 280.25
SMTP Hello 0 4,456 292.95
SMTP Mail From 0 8,663 261.82
SMTP Rcpt To 0 2,043 87.85
SMTP Data 0 8,833 84.45
SMTP Quit 0 8,412 45.34
POP Connect 0 1,553 13.63
POP User ID 0 1,593 18.88
POP Password 0 1,793 154.67
POP Status 0 361 3.59
POP Retrieve 0 771 36.10
POP Delete 0 331 6.66
POP Quit 0 2,174 62.02
Function Minimum Size
(KB)
Maximum Size
(KB)
Average Size
(KB)
SMTP Data (KB up) 1 2,674 23.51
POP Retrieve (KB down) 1 2,675 24.05


Detailed Results -- 120% Load
Load User Count Message Rate
(msg/min)
Attempted 85,714 429
Actual 73,200 366
Function Attempts # Pass
QoS
% Pass
QoS
SMTP Connect 34,196 33,190 97.06%
SMTP Hello 34,200 33,183 97.03%
SMTP Mail From 34,236 31,397 91.71%
SMTP Rcpt To 69,058 69,058 100.00%
SMTP Data 34,248 33,279 97.17%
SMTP Quit 33,917 32,651 96.27%
POP Connect 51,679 51,679 100.00%
POP User ID 51,679 51,679 100.00%
POP Password 51,678 51,528 99.71%
POP Status 51,678 51,678 100.00%
POP Retrieve 48,247 48,247 100.00%
POP Delete 48,142 48,142 100.00%
POP Quit 51,581 51,506 99.85%
Delivery Time 485 26 5.36%
SMTP Data Response Time 34,248 33,219 97.00%
POP Retrieve Response Time 48,247 48,167 99.83%
Remote Message Delivery 32,578 27,819 85.39%

Counter

Value
SMTP Connect Error 14,473
SMTP Protocol Error 0
SMTP Disconnect 344
SMTP Session 48,390
SMTP To Local 36,473
SMTP To Remote 32,578
SINK Connect Error 0
POP Connect Error 0
POP Protocol Error 0
POP Disconnect 105
POP Session 51,581
Delivery Time Connect Error 147
Function Minimum Time
(millisec)
Maximum Time
(millisec)
Average Time
(millisec)
SMTP Connect 0 10,595 1,429.70
SMTP Hello 0 10,595 1,426.26
SMTP Mail From 0 35,020 2,128.36
SMTP Rcpt To 0 3,295 260.27
SMTP Data 0 32,777 723.76
SMTP Quit 0 41,600 778.15
POP Connect 0 3,354 19.81
POP User ID 0 3,565 26.45
POP Password 0 9,304 627.52
POP Status 0 1,082 5.09
POP Retrieve 0 2,243 40.80
POP Delete 0 3,355 9.82
POP Quit 0 13,510 309.92
Function Minimum Size
(KB)
Maximum Size
(KB)
Average Size
(KB)
SMTP Data (KB up) 1 2,674 23.15
POP Retrieve (KB down) 1 2,675 24.85

General Notes / Tuning Information

Network hardware:

  Foundry Network ServerIronXL (2x 1000Base-SX ports and 24x 10/100 BaseT ports)

Switch configuration:

  Only layer three switching performed -- no particular switch
  configuration required.

DNS configuration:

  "A" records for every host on the network (to map hostnames to IP
  addresses).

  "PTR" records for every host on the network (to reverse map IP
  addresses to hostnames).

  Specify operf4.p.net as the only mail exchange for domain remote.p.net
  with an MX record of preference level 10.


Testing performed at Mirapoint Headquarters (Performance Lab) in Sunnyvale, CA.


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First published at SPEC.org on 05-Jul-2001

Benchmark run on Wed Jun 13 14:17:47 PDT 2001 by SPECmail2001 v1.01
Report generated on Mon Apr 25 17:24:24 EDT 2005 by SPECmail2001 v1.05 HTML Formatter