SPECmail2009 Result Sun Microsystems, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 UltraSPARC T2Plus and Sun CommSuite5 SPECmail2009 msgs/min = 60 Valid Result SPEC license # 6, Tested by: Sun Microsystems Test date: Jul-2009, Hardware Avail: Jul-2009, Software Avail: Oct-2008 60 SPECmail2009 messages per minute is equal to 12,000 SPECmail2009_users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Results --------------- Response Required Percentage Compliant Function time limit Percentage 100% (seconds) Compliant SMTP Connect 5 >95% 100.00% SMTP Data 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP APPEND 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP Connect 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP EXPUNGE 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP FETCH_NUM_BODYALL 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP FETCH_RANGE_ENVELOPE_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_INTERNALDATE_RFC822SIZE_UID 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP LIST 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP LSUB_NULL_WILDCARD 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP SELECT_FOLDER 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP SELECT_INBOX 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP UID_FETCH_RANGE_UID_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_RFC822SIZE 5 >95% 100.00% IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_SEEN 5 >95% 100.00% Delivery Time 60 >95% 0.00% Error Rate NA <1% 0.00% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server (1 system) Software IMAP, SMTP and LDAP Software:Sun Commsuite5, Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Availability: Aug-2007 Operating System: Solaris 10 File System: ufs+zfs Hardware Vendor: Sun Microsystems Model Name: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 UltraSPARC T2Plus Availability: Jul-2009 Disk Subsystem: 8x146GB SAS 10Krpm Internal disks, 6xStorageTeK 2540 FC Arrays: 4(12x146GB, 15Krpm SAS disks) + 2(12x73GB, 15Krpm SAS disks) Memory (MB): 130848 Network: 1 Sun[TM] Gigaswift Ethernet onboard Controller 1Gb/s for the private network switch connection to the clients 2xX4600 and 1xX4240 through a Gigabit Ethernet Switch # of Systems: 1 CPU: UltraSPARC T2Plus CPU MHz: 1582 CPUs Enabled: 2(8 cores on each,8 threads on each core) Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 8KB(D) on chip per core Secondary Cache: 4MB I+D on chip per chip Other Cache: N/A Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information This Mailserver host is the single node IMAP+SMTP+LDAP server Notes/Tuning Information *IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Tuning only, not any installation steps **Dispatcher Tunings MIN_PROCS=100 MAX_PROCS=150 MIN_CONNS=30 MAX_CONNS=50 MAX_HANDSOFFS=100 **Job Controller Tuning IMS_POOL job_limit=12 MAX_MESSAGES=1000000 service.imap.numprocesses=6 store.dbcachesize=640000000 store.dbtmpdir=/tmp/mboxlist nsslapd-dbcachesize=3221225472 service.authcachesize=500000 service.authcachettl=7200 ALLOW_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=1500 ALLOW_TRANSACTIONS_PER_SESSION=1500 REJECT_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=2500 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Manager+Load Generator+SMTP Sink (1 system) Software JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04) ((no JIT)) Availability: Oct-2008 Operating System: Solaris 10 X64 File System: ufs Hardware Vendor: Sun Microsystems Model Name: Sun Fire X4600 AMD Opteron 8384 Availability: Jul-2006 Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB, 10K rpm SAS Memory (MB): 64960 Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface # of Systems: 1 CPU: AMD Opteron 8384 CPU MHz: 2700 CPUs Enabled: 8(4 cores each) Primary Cache: 64KBI + 64KBD on chip, per core Secondary Cache: 512MB I+D on chip per core Other Cache: 2MB(I)+2MB(D) on chip per chip Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information X4600 system is the benchmark manager, load generator and the SMTP Sink, another X4600 and a X4240 system are the load generators. Both X4600 and X4240 clients are communicating with the T5240 SUT via a private net Gigabit Ethernet Switch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Generator (1 system) Software JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04) ((no JIT)) Availability: Oct-2008 Operating System: Solaris 10 X64 File System: ufs Hardware Vendor: Sun Microsystems Model Name: Sun Fire X4600 AMD Opteron 8384 Availability: Jul-2006 Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB, 10K rpm SAS Memory (MB): 64960 Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface # of Systems: 1 CPU: AMD Opteron 8384 CPU MHz: 2700 CPUs Enabled: 8(4 cores each) Primary Cache: 64KBI + 64KBD on chip, per core Secondary Cache: 512MB I+D on chip per core Other Cache: 2MB(I)+2MB(D) on chip per chip Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Generator (1 system) Software JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04) ((no JIT)) Availability: Oct-2008 Operating System: Solaris 10 X64 File System: ufs Hardware Vendor: Sun Microsystems Model Name: Sun Fire X4240 AMD Opteron 2384 Availability: Jan-2006 Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB, 10K rpm SAS Memory (MB): 16284 Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface # of Systems: 1 CPU: AMD Opteron 2384 CPU MHz: 2700 CPUs Enabled: 2(4 cores each) Primary Cache: 64KBI + 64KBD on chip, per core Secondary Cache: 1MB I+D on chip per core Other Cache: N/A Other: N/A Notes / Tuning Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Notes / Tuning Information *Following are the OS Tunings only for all the Servers and Clients, not any installtion steps **set rlim_fd_max=1048576: Hard limit on the open file descripters for a single process **set autoup=36000000: Controls the frequency in seconds of entire physical memory to be scanned for dirty pages **set tune_t_fsflushr=600: Reduces fsflush daemon overhead **set rlim_fd_cur=1048576: Defines a "soft" limit on file descriptors that a single process can have open *Following are the NETWORK Configurations and Tunings **All the network connections and the routing are resolved using UNIX hosts file **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 400000 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 400000 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 16384 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 16384 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_max_buf 4194304 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_cwnd_max 2097152 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 8192 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval 60000 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_naglim_def 1 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_mss_min 108 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast 0 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_directed_broacasts 0 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_strict_dst_multihoming 1 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 0 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_src_routed 0 **/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000 **All total 14 Java load generator instances were configured on the 2 Sun Fire X4600 and ***1 Sun Fire X4240 Clients at the 1200-1213 ports for all IMAP users, ***1 Java load generator instance was configured on the 1100 port for the ***SMTP sink. Following Java options were used for all the load generators: ***java -d64 -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:+AggressiveHeap **The Benchmark runs through a private network between the Load Generators ***and the SUT via a Gigabit Ethernet Switch ***The Mailserver is configured with 6 Sun's ***StorageTek 2540 FC Arrays: 4 (12x146GB 15K rpm SAS) arrays and 2 (12x73GB 15K rpm SAS) ***are configured as 36 HW RAID1 volumes, 24 RAID1 volumes from 4x146GB arrays and 12 RAID1 volumes from 2x73GB arrays *** 4 ZPOOLs with 6 HW RAID1 volumes on each from 24 146GB set are mounted to 4 ZFS file systems for 4 Primary message stores. 4 ZPOOLs with 2 HW RAID1 volumes on each from 12 73GB set are mounted to 4 ZFS file systems for 4 Primary message indexes ***built with Sun's ZFS and ZPOOL ***Availability of the mailstores maximizes with 512MB cache/controller on the FC arrays with ***battery backed up for 72 hours ***7x146GB, 10K rpm internal SAS disks (each split into 4 partitions) on the SUT are configured as 4 ZPOOLs mapped to 4 ZFS. Each ZPOOL was created with 3 RAID1 volumes. ***mounted as ZFS file system for LDAP, log, store-metadata and queue *** 1 146GB, 10K rpm internal SAS disk on the SUT was configured with the system OS Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Sun Commsuite5 Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this result, please contact the tester. For other inquiries, please contact webmaster@spec.org Copyright (C) 2009 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Benchmark run on Wed Jul 22 11:05:17 EDT 2009 by SPECmail2009 v1.0 (200902201013) Report generated on Mon Aug 10 11:08:57 EDT 2009 by SPECmail2009 v1.0.1 (200907151340)