SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard:	HP Integrity server rx2600
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.2r2

SPECweb99_SSL = 1000

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	998
2	1000
3	1000
Median	1000

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jul-2003
HTTPS Software	Mar-2003
Operating System	Sep-2003
Supplemental System	Sep-2003

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model HP Integrity server rx2600

Processor 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2 6M

# Processors 1 core, 1 chip, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 256KB unified on chip

Other Cache 6144KB unified on chip

Memory 12 GB (12x1GB)

Disk Subsystem 3x36GB (15K RPM)

Disk Controllers SCSI C896 UW SE (internal)

Other Hardware 1xAlteon 180e Switches

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i v2

File System See SUT Notes

Other Software B3901BA HP C/ANSI C

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.2r2

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jul-2003
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 1

Network Controllers HP A6847A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 1

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 4

Model HP 9000/A500-5X

Processor 550 Mhz PA-8600

# of Processors 2

Memory 4 GB

Network Controller HP A4926A Gigabit Ethernet

Operating System HP-UX 11i

Compiler B3901BA B.11.11.04 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1000

Fileset Size (MB) 3318.4

Notes

SUT Notes

1 (36 GB) disk with vxfs used for OS
1 (36 GB) disk with hfs used for the file_set
1 (36 GB) disk with hfs with largefiles, behind used for logs
Bound each Zeus instance to the processor corresponding to its NIC
Processor binding is performed by: mpsched -c cpu# -p pid
Set page size attribute for zeus.web, zeus.cgi binaries and zeus.cgi in zeus-kit
chatr +pd 64k +pi 64k zeus.cgi
chatr +pd 64M +pi 64M zeus.web

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=25 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=25 Min bufer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (5)
maxfiles=60000 Soft File Limit per Process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard File Limit per Process (1024)
nfile=120000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=120000 Max number of inodes (444)
tcphashsz=16384 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)
fs_async=1 Enables asynchrous writes of file-system data structures Boolean (0)
vxfs_ifree_timelag=3600000 VxFS Free Inode minimum existence time (0)
scsi_max_qdepth=64 Maximum number of concurrent requests to a SCSI device (8)
create_fastlinks=1 Enables storage of symbolic links in HFS inode structures (Boolean) (0)
maxdsiz_64bit 274877906944 Maximum size of the data segment of a 64-bit process (bytes) (4294967296)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters in global.cfg:
tuning!cache_files 356750
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 0
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 5011
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_expiry 120
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!softservers no
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!maxaccept 2048
Zeus runningsite configuration:
modules!security!enabled yes
modules!cgi!enabled yes
modules!isapi!enabled yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit(0.8) used for SPECweb99_SSL dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=no --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop --ssl=yes --64bit=yes
compiled with HP C/ANSI C develpers Bundle (B3901BA)
CFLAGS=+Ofaster +DD64 +DSitanium2
LDFLAGS=+DSitanium2,+pd,64k,+pi,64k

Network Notes

Networking Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=2048 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
socket_caching_tcp=4096 Controls socket caching for TCP sockets (512)
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)

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
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)
maxswapchunks=2048 Maximum number of swap chunks (256)

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20030626.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	998	99.8%	2751.7	363.2	2.75	329.8
2	1000	100.0%	2751.1	363.4	2.75	329.6
3	1000	100.0%	2753.1	363.1	2.75	330.0

Wed Apr 13 17:17:01 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 06-Aug-2003