SPECweb99 Result

IBM:	eServer xSeries 232
Red Hat:	TUX 2.0

SPECweb99 = 3227

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	3227
2	3231
3	3226
Median	3227

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2001
HTTP Software	Apr-2001
Operating System	Apr-2001
Supplemental System	Apr-2001

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model eServer xSeries 232

Processor 1.133 GHz Pentium III

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

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache none

Memory 4GB

Disk Subsystem 6 X 18GB (IBM 19K1638)

Disk Controllers Onboard Adaptec

Other Hardware 4 X ALTEON ACEswitch 180 GbE Switch

Software

Operating System RedHat Linux 7.1

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software TUX 2.0

API TUX user API

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jun-2001
Tested By	IBM
SPEC License	11

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers Alteon ACEnic PCI-SX

# of Nets 4

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 20

Model IBM eServer xSeries 330

Processor 933Mhz Pentium III

# of Processors 1

Memory 256MB

Network Controller Alteon ACEnic PCI-SX

Operating System Windows 2000 Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 3240

Fileset Size (MB) 10487.12

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS and logs
5 disk software RAID1, 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.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240
- net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
- net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000, number of unprocessed input packets before the kernel starts dropping them, default 300
- net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
- net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
- net.ipv4.tcp_mem=30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
- net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1, Allow applications to bind to a non-local address, default 0
See config file for kernel build information

HTTP Software Notes

TUX Configuration
- 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.mode_cgi = 32841
- net.tux.cgiroot = /
- net.tux.logfile = /http/tmp/tux

HTTP API Notes

Tux API from IBM-20010626.tar.gz

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	3227	99.6%	8952.8	361.9	2.76	329.9
2	3231	99.7%	8971.7	361.1	2.77	330.5
3	3226	99.6%	8946.2	362.1	2.76	329.8

Mon Apr 25 12:38:24 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 10-Jul-2001