SPECweb96 Result

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 IBM : Netfinity 8500R                                  ||   22688  SPECweb96
 Microsoft : IIS 5.0 and SWC 2.0                        ||
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   Throughput   Response
     ops/sec      msec
      2310         4.6
      4620         5.1
      6930         5.6
      9239         6.1
     11550         6.8
     13860         7.7
     16171         8.6
     18481        10.4
     20793        13.6
     22688        18.1

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                          General Availability Dates

 Hardware            Sep-99
 Operating System    Oct-99
 HTTP Software       Dec-99

                               System Hardware

 Vendor              IBM
 Model               Netfinity 8500R
 Processor           550MHz Pentium III Xeon
 # of Processors     8
 Primary Cache       32KB
 Secondary Cache     2MB
 Other Cache         None
 Memory              4GB
 Disk Controllers    Wide Ultra SCSI
 Disk Subsystem      4 9.1GB 10K RPM drives
 Other Hardware      4 Alteon ACEswitch 180

                               System Software

 Operating System    Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 Other Software      None
 File System Type    NTFS

                                HTTP Software

 Vendor              Microsoft
 HTTP Software       IIS 5.0 and SWC 2.0
 # of "threads"      1
 Server Cache        SWC 2.0
 Log Mode            Binary CLF

                                   Network

 # of Controllers    8
 Network Controller  Alteon ACEnic PCI
 # of Nets           8
 Type of Nets        Jumbo Frame Gigabit
 Network Speed       1000 Mb
 MSL (sec)           30
 Time-Wait (sec)     60

                               Load Generators

 # of Generators     24
 # of Processes Each 18
 Model               Intellistation Z Pro
 Processor           450Mhz Pentium II Xeon
 # of Processors     2
 Memory              256MB
 Network Controller  Alteon ACEnic PCI
 Operating System    Windows 2000 Professional
 Compiler            Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0

                            Benchmark Configuration

 Max Requested Load  23100
 Max Fileset Size    3319

                                 Test Sponsor

 Tested By           IBM
 License Number      11
 Test Date           Sep-99

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                                Network Notes

<> MTU size = 9000 bytes

                                 Other Notes

<> Registry Settings for both Client and Server:
<>   Tcpip/Parameters/MaxUserPort=65534 (Set maximum port number used, default: 5000)
<>   Tcpip/Parameters/TcpWindowSize=0xffff (TCP/IP Window size, default: 12xstandard
<>     frame size)
<>   Session Manager/Memory Management/DontVerifyRandomDrivers=1 (Disables driver
<>     testing/verification code used for debugging faulty drivers.  This will be
<>     disabled by default in the final Windows2000 release)
<>   NDIS/Parameters/ProcessorAffinityMask=0 (Interrupt and DPC affinitized to same
<>     processor, default: this is the default for Windows 2000)
<> Registry Settings for Server
<>   Session Manager/Memory Management/SystemPages=0xffffffff (Increases default
<>     system page table entries, default: set based on physical memory size)
<>   Session Manager/Memory Management/LargeSystemCache=0 (Reduces extra virtual
<>     space for file system cache from 960MB to 512MB)
<>   Tcpip/Parameters/TcpTimedWaitDelay=60 (Set TIME_WAIT to 60 seconds, default: 240)
<>   Tcpip/Parameters/MaxFreeTWTcbs=1386720 (Set TCB timewait table entries,
<>     default: 2000)
<>   Tcpip/Parameters/MaxHashTableSize=65536 (Set TCB hash table size entries,
<>     default: 512)
<>   InetInfo/Parameters/PoolThreadLimit=8 (Sets total pool threads, default: 128)
<>   InetInfo/Parameters/DisableMemoryCache=1 (Disables memory cache parameters,
<>     Default: 1)
<>   InetInfo/Parameters/ObjectCacheTTL=0 (Sets object caching time-to-live to 0
<>     seconds, default: 30 seconds)
<>   InetInfo/Parameters/MaxPoolThreads=1 (Configures one thread per processor run
<>     model, default: 10)
<>   swc/Parameters/LogFileInitialSize=0xffffffff (Initial file size for logging)
<>   swc/Parameters/LogDrive=F (Sets drive letter for log file)
<> 1 disk for OS/pagefile, 3 striped disks for web pages and logs
<> Modified the following Alteon NIC driver configuration entries:
<>   SendCoalMax=80 (Max buffer descriptors sent before updating send producer index,
<>     default: 333)
<>   RecvCoalMax=20 (Max buffer descriptors receive before updating receive producer
<>     index, default: 333)
<>   SendCoalTicks=1000 (Max clock ticks (in usec) the NIC waits before updating send
<>     producer index, default: 2)
<>   RecvCoalTicks=1000 (Max clock ticks (in usec) the NIC waits before updating
<>     receive producer index, default: 2)
<>   PciReadMax=256 (Set Max bytes per PCI read burst)
<>   JumboFrames=1 (Enables Jumbo Frame support, default: 0)
<> Network interrupts affinitized one NIC per CPU
<> IIS settings: no logging, no indexing, highest performance, port 80, spec file
<>   directory

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