SPECweb99 Result =============================================================================== || Dell : PowerEdge 6600 || 5750 SPECweb99 Red Hat : Red Hat Content Accelerator 2 || || =============================================================================== PERFORMANCE | Conforming Simultaneous Iteration | Connections ---------------+---------------------------- 1 | 5750 2 | 5750 3 | 5750 ---------------+---------------------------- Median | 5750 =============================================================================== Availability Dates All Hardware May-2002 HTTP Software Feb-2002 Operating System Oct-2001 Supplemental System Feb-2002 Hardware Vendor Dell Model PowerEdge 6600 Processor 1.60 GHz Xeon MP # Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled) Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip Secondary Cache 256KB ATC Other Cache 1MB L3 Memory 16 GB Disk Subsystem 8 18GB 15KRPM drives Disk Controllers Dell PERC 3/QC Other Hardware 4 Dell PowerConnect 5012 8 Nortel ACEswitch 180 Software Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.2 File System ext2 Other Software RHSA-2002-028, Intel 4.1.7 driver HTTP Software Vendor Red Hat HTTP Software Red Hat Content Accelerator 2 API RHCA API Server Cache None Log Mode Binary CLF Test Sponsor Test Date Apr-2002 Tested By Dell SPEC License 55 Network # of Controllers 8 Network Controllers 8 Intel PRO/1000 XT # of Nets 8 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 40 Model Dell Precision 410 Processor 450MHz Pentium II # of Processors 2 Memory 128MB Network Controller 3Com 3C985B-SX Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.2 Compiler gcc 2.96 Benchmark Configuration Requested Connections 5750 Fileset Size (MB) 18519.6 =============================================================================== Notes/Tuning information SUT Notes 1 disk for OS and logs 7 disk hardware RAID0 stripe for fileset Operating System Notes ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024 One NIC bound per logical CPU (Hyper-Threading enabled) Each NIC's TX queue length set to 20000 via ifconfig, default 100 File systems mounted with "noatime,nodiratime", no inode access time updating net.ipv4.nonlocal_bind = 1, allows processes to bind to non-local IP adresses net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10000000 10000000 10000000, sets min/default/max TCP read buffer, default 4096 87380 174760 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 10000000 10000000 10000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP write buffer, default 4096 16384 131072 net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 10000000 10000000 10000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768 net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turn SACK support off, default on net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on net.core.hot_list_length = 300000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128 net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071 net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071 net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535 net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240 net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300 Kernel parameters: idle=poll, idle threads poll reschedule flag, default is to use HLT instruction acpismp=force, use ACPI tables for processor information, default MP table HTTP Software Notes One network bound per TUX thread net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging of requests, default 0 net.tux.cgiroot = /, cgi root check, default /var/www/tux/cgiroot/ net.tux.cgi_uid = 99, uid 'nobody' for cgi scripts; default -1 net.tux.cgi_gid = 99, gid 'nobody' for cgi scripts; default -1 net.tux.max_backlog = 3000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048 net.tux.generate_etags = 0, don't generate ETag header, default 1 net.tux.generate_last_mod = 0, don't generate Last-Modified header, default 0 net.tux.noid = 1, suppress the Server id string, default 0 Client Notes net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535 Other Notes Tuning Disclosure: See above. Dynamic API: Dell-20020204-RHCA.tar.gz Kernel config: Dell-20020513-PE6600-config.txt =============================================================================== Test Run Details Run Conforming Percent | Throughput Response ops/sec/ Kbits/ Num Connections Conform | ops/sec msec loadgen sec 1 5750 100.0% | 17136.9 335.4 2.98 355.4 2 5750 100.0% | 16969.0 338.8 2.95 352.0 => 3 5750 100.0% | 17120.5 335.8 2.98 355.1