SPECweb99 Result

IBM:	Netfinity 8500R
Red Hat:	TUX 1.0

SPECweb99 = 2399

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2396
2	2399
3	2400
Median	2399

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2000
HTTP Software	Sep-2000
Operating System	Sep-2000
Supplemental System	Sep-2000

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model Netfinity 8500R

Processor 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 2MB

Other Cache none

Memory 8GB

Disk Subsystem 5 X 9GB (Seagate ST39103LC)

Disk Controllers IBM ServeRaid 3H

Other Hardware 2 X ALTEON ACEswitch 180 GbE Switch

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.0
with Threaded Web Server Add-On

File System ext2

Other Software none

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software TUX 1.0

API TUX user API

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Nov-2000
Tested By	IBM
SPEC License	11

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Alteon ACEnic PCI

# of Nets 2

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 10

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++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2400

Fileset Size (MB) 7798.24

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS and logfiles
4 disk RAID 0 for web pages

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
- net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, default 0
- net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
- net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
- net.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default 1
- net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default 1
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 16384 65535, default 32768 61000
- net.core.rmem_max = 10485760, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.rmem_default = 10485760, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_max = 10485760, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_default = 10485760, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
- fs.file-max = 40960, maximum number of open files, default 8192
- vm.bdflush = 100 5000 640 2560 150 30000 5000 1884 2 (see tux tuning and setup file)
Alteon NIC settings in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/acenic.c
- tx_coal_tick = 300, default 400
- rx_coal_tick = 300, default 120
Network adapters affinitized 1 per CPU
See config file for kernel build information

HTTP Software Notes

TUX Configuration
- net.tux.threads = 2, sets number of TUX threads, default 2
- net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging, default 0
- net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
- net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000
- net.tux.max_cached_filesize = 100000000, maximum size of cached object, default 100000
- net.tux.serverport = 80
- net.tux.max_backlog = 3000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048

HTTP API Notes

Dell Tux API from Dell-20000626.zip

Hardware Notes

1 disk for OS and logs, 4 disk RAID web pages

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	2396	99.8%	6717.8	356.8	2.80	334.4
2	2399	100.0%	6776.7	353.7	2.82	337.2
3	2400	100.0%	6791.2	353.0	2.83	338.2

Mon Apr 25 12:38:12 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 26-Dec-2000