SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	HP 9000 rp8420-32 (4 cells)
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.2r4

SPECweb99 = 18100

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	18100
2	18100
3	18100
Median	18100

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Feb-2004
HTTP Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	May-2004
Supplemental System	May-2004

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model HP 9000 rp8420-32 (4 cells)

Processor PA-8800 1.0 GHz

# Processors 10 cores, 5 chips, 2 cores/chip

Primary Cache 768KBI + 768KBD (on chip) per core

Secondary Cache 32MB (off chip) shared by 2 cores

Other Cache None

Memory 128 GB (64x2GB)

Disk Subsystem 3x36GB (15K RPM), 1x146GB (10K RPM)

Disk Controllers 4 SCSI C1010 Fast Wide LVD (internal)

Other Hardware 5 x HP Procurve 2724 Switch

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i v1

File System See Notes

Other Software B3901BA HP C/ANSI C

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTP Software Zeus 4.2r4

API ISAPI

Server Cache HP Network Server Accelerator (NSA HTTP) B.11.11.01.02

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jan-2004
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 10

Network Controllers HP A6825A

# of Nets 10

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 HP Integrity rx2600

Processor Intel Itanium2 900MHz

# of Processors 2

Memory 4GB

Network Controller HP A6825A

Operating System HPUX 11i v2

Compiler B3901BA HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 18100

Fileset Size (MB) 58037.84

Notes

SUT Notes

All filesystems are HFS
1 36GB disk split into two logical volumes with LVM for OS
1 36GB disk with 64KB block size (def. 8KB) and 8KB fragments
(def. 1KB) mounted with largefiles, behind used for NSA logs
1 36GB disk split into two logical volumes using LVM
lvol1 (18GB) with 64KB block size (def. 8KB) and 8KB fragments
(def. 1KB) mounted with largefiles, behind used for /spec and Zeus logs
lvol2 (18GB) used for swap.
1 146GB disk mounted read-only used for the file_set
Bound each Zeus and NSA instance to processor corresponding to its NIC, one processor for CGI
Bound cgi instance to the processor corresponding to NIC with lighter load (See Client Notes)
Processor binding is performed by "mpsched -c cpu# -p pid"
Set page size attribute for zeus.web binary
chatr +pd 16M +pi 16M zeus.web

Operating System Notes

Additional Software:
HP Network Server Accelerator (NSA HTTP) B.11.11.01.02
Transport Optional Upgrade Release 2.0 (TOUR 2.0) for 11i v1
GigEtherEnh-01 B.11.11.01 Enhancement for GigEther-01
HP-UX Patches:
PHKL_25233 select(2) and poll(2) hang
PHKL_25729 signals, threads enhancement, Psets Enablement
PHKL_25993 thread nostop for NFS, rlimit, Ufalloc fix
PHKL_25994 Thread NOSTOP, Psets Enablement, Ufalloc
PHKL_25995 eventport syscalls; socket close(2); ufalloc
PHKL_26197 Interrupt Migration Enablement
PHKL_27091 Core PM, vPar, Psets Cumulative, slpq1 perf
PHKL_27094 Psets Enablement Patch, slpq1 perf
PHKL_27317 detach; NOSTOP, Abort; Psets; slpq1 perf
PHNE_29945 GigEther-01 patch
PHNE_29825 Cumulative STREAMS patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
bufcache_hash_locks=512 Buffer Cache Spinlock Pool Size (256)
dlnc_hash_locks=8192 Number of Locks for Directory Lookup Sync (512)
dbc_max_pct=60 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=60 Min bufer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (5)
fs_async=1 Select asynchronous writes (0)
maxfiles=60000 Soft File Limit per Process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard File Limit per Process (1024)
maxssiz_64bit=0x10000000 Max stack size(bytes) for 64-bit procs (0x800000)
nfile=1400000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=500000 Max number of inodes (444)
nkthread=8000 Max number of kernel threads (499)
64 Maximum number of SCSI Commands that can be Queued (8)
tcphashsz=32768 Relative Scaling Factor for TCP & IP Int. Tables(2048)
vps_ceiling=4096 Max System selected page size [KB] (16)
vps_pagesize=64 Default User page size [KB] (4)

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 58000
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!cache_large_file 250000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 1000
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 2048
tuning!max_connections 2990
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 56000
tuning!sendfile_minsize 1000
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!timeout 6000
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!use_select yes
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
Zeus runningsite configuration:
modules!cgi!enabled yes
modules!isapi!enabled yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit (0.8) used for SPECweb99 dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop --ssl=no --64bit=yes
compiled with HP C/ANSI C developer's Bundle (B3901BA)
CFLAGS=+z +O2 -Ae +DA2.0W +DS2.0 -DUSE_SENDFILE_HP -DCHECK_CONFIG

Network Notes

Networking Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=1000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=5000 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
tcp_conn_strategy=16384 Selects TCP connection strategy (0)
Gigabit Tunable Parameters:
send_max_bufs=128 Number of sending buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_max_bufs=128 Number of receiving buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_coal_ticks=12000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (0)
send_coal_ticks=5000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (0)
HP Network Setver Accelerator (NSA HTTP) Tunables:
CacheMaxPct=10 NSA Cache Maximum Percentage of RAM (50)
CacheTimeout=999999 NSA cache reuse timeout in seconds (600)
EnableStat=on Enable NSA statistics (off)
LogFile=/logs/nsahttp_log Log file location (/var/nsa/nsahttp_log)
LogFormat=binary NSA log format (ASCII)
MaxURIDataLen=293 NSA Max size URI data (web page) to cache in KB (1024)

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
Use client speed setting in rc file to force lighter load on one NIC
i.e. CLIENTS=s1[9] s2[9] s3[9] s4[10] s5[10] s6[10]
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
ncallout=5000 Increase number of pending timeouts
nkthread=8000 Maximum number of system-wide threads (499)
ninode=5000 Maximum number of inodes (444)
nfile=4096 Maximum number of open files (790)

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20040122.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20020723-API.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	18100	100.0%	57591.8	313.6	3.18	382.2
2	18100	100.0%	57469.4	314.2	3.18	381.4
3	18100	100.0%	56421.8	320.1	3.12	374.5

Tue Mar 30 14:49:25 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 02-Mar-2004