SPECweb2005 Result: IBM: BladeCenter LS21

SPECweb2005 Result
Copyright © 2006 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM: BladeCenter LS21
Accoria Networks: Rock Web Server (x86-64) 1.3.3
Apache Software Foundation: Apache Tomcat 5.5.17

SPECweb2005 = 8603

SPECweb2005_Banking = 15000

SPECweb2005_Ecommerce = 11200

SPECweb2005_Support = 8400

Tested By: IBM

SPEC License #: 11

Test Date: Aug-2006

Performance and Configuration Section
Performance Section
Configuration Section
Common Workload Notes

Details Section
Banking Details
Ecommerce Details
Support Details

Notes Section
Banking Notes
Ecommerce Notes
Support Notes

Errors Section
Banking Errors
Ecommerce Errors
Support Errors

Performance

Banking

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

15000

99.6%

100.0%

0.0%

197

97.3%

99.9%

0.1%

184

96.8%

100.0%

0.0%

205

Ecommerce

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

11200

97.3%

99.9%

0.1%

96.3%

99.9%

0.1%

96.4%

99.9%

0.1%

Support

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

8400

97.6%

99.7%

0.3%

95.4%

99.7%

0.3%

95.7%

99.8%

0.2%

Configuration

Availability Dates
SUT Hardware	Jun-2006
Backend Simulator	Nov-2003
Web Server Software	May-2006 (Accoria Rock Web 1.3.3) May-2006 (Apache Tomcat 5.5.17)
Operating System	Aug-2004
Other Components	May-2006 (JVM)

System Under Test (SUT)

# of SUTs 1

Vendor IBM

Model BladeCenter LS21

Processor AMD Opteron 2218

Processor Speed (MHz) 2600

# Processors 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip

Primary Cache 64KB(I) + 64KB(D) on chip, per core

Secondary Cache 1024 KB on chip, per core

Other Cache N/A

Memory 16 GB (DDR2 667MHz)

Disk Subsystem 36GB 15K Ultra320 SAS, 70 x 18GB Fibre Channel

Disk Controllers QLogic Fibre Channel QLA2342

Operating System SUSE SLES 9 SP2 (2.6.5-7.191-smp x86-64)

File System ext2

Other Hardware None

Other Software Sun Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.5.06

SUT Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 PT

# of Networks 4

Network Type Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU Size 1500

Web Server Software
Vendor	Accoria Networks
Name/Version	Rock Web Server (x86-64) 1.3.3
Dynamic Scripts	JSP
Server Cache	N/A
Log Mode	Common Log Format

Script Engine

Vendor Apache Software Foundation

Name/Version Apache Tomcat 5.5.17

Dynamic Scripts JSP

Server Cache N/A

Log Mode Common Log Format

Clients

# of Clients 27

Model eServer xSeries x336

Processor Xeon

Processor Speed (MHz) 2800

# Processors 2

Memory 2 GB

Network Controller IBM NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

Operating System SUSE Linux 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24-smp)

JVM Version Java 2 Runtime Environment, Std Edition (build 1.4.2_01-b06)

JIT Version Java HotSpot Client VM (build 1.4.2_01-b06, mixed mode)

Other Hardware N/A

Other Software N/A

Backend Simulator (BESIM)

# of Simulators 1

Model eServer xSeries x336

Processor Xeon

Processor Speed (MHz) 2800

# of Processors 2

Memory 2 GB

Network Controller IBM NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

Operating System SUSE Linux 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24-smp)

File System ext2

Web Server Apache 2.0.53

Server Scripts SPEC-FCGI v1.0

Other Hardware N/A

Other Software N/A

Common Workload Notes

Banking Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

852357

845002

7354

11,822.0

0.895

34526

account_summary

600867

600099

768

6,625.0

0.578

27446

check_detail_html

336964

333824

3140

3,215.4

0.626

23754

bill_pay

548915

548241

673

5,592.3

0.563

25360

add_payee

44317

44276

468.3

0.571

26306

payee_info

31709

31569

140

557.2

0.769

43741

quick_pay

263633

260976

2657

3,496.4

0.708

33013

billpay_status

87581

87460

121

1,163.5

0.627

33069

chg_profile

48330

48264

837.3

0.710

43124

post_profile

34797

34793

512.6

0.623

36671

req_checks

48067

45954

2113

1,697.9

1.259

87931

post_chk_order

34674

34436

458.8

0.628

32940

req_xfer_form

68488

68421

605.3

0.537

21999

post_fund_xfer

49387

49312

485.3

0.556

24463

logout

243433

243363

7,359.0

1.059

75252

check_image

674143

2,894.0

0.157

10686

Total

3967662

3950133	17331	1

47,790.4

0.627

29,983

838786

791863

45825

1098

9,816.0

1.045

34482

account_summary

591845

585780

5763

302

5,509.1

0.722

27427

check_detail_html

331686

313209

18164

313

2,674.2

0.812

23755

bill_pay

538751

533204

5251

296

4,637.1

0.711

25361

add_payee

43491

43050

426

388.3

0.718

26308

payee_info

31166

30334

800

462.7

0.916

43745

quick_pay

258261

243239

14700

322

2,893.6

0.885

33013

billpay_status

86051

85133

871

965.6

0.767

33064

chg_profile

47601

47084

493

696.9

0.837

43135

post_profile

34299

34121

155

426.9

0.737

36673

req_checks

47255

39719

7486

1,409.9

1.403

87914

post_chk_order

34055

33519

335

380.9

0.766

32957

req_xfer_form

67422

66728

660

503.1

0.691

21986

post_fund_xfer

48554

48023

506

403.0

0.707

24458

logout

239484

238350

1051

6,117.3

1.121

75265

check_image

663450

663236

138

2,406.4

0.192

10687

Total

3902157

3796592	102562	2819

39,691.1

0.755

29,970

837109

780323

56780

9,706.1

1.054

34484

account_summary

590494

584772

5722

5,445.3

0.733

27426

check_detail_html

330883

307839

23043

2,642.9

0.826

23755

bill_pay

538340

533103

5237

4,590.7

0.721

25361

add_payee

43399

43007

392

383.9

0.730

26306

payee_info

31132

30097

1035

457.9

0.927

43745

quick_pay

258361

239273

19083

2,867.9

0.898

33013

billpay_status

85959

85079

880

955.8

0.776

33068

chg_profile

47445

46991

454

688.1

0.847

43134

post_profile

34208

34147

421.8

0.743

36669

req_checks

47154

38689

8464

1,393.8

1.412

87913

post_chk_order

33970

33454

311

376.2

0.777

32934

req_xfer_form

67219

66588

631

496.8

0.698

21981

post_fund_xfer

48359

47923

436

397.7

0.714

24456

logout

238925

238181

744

6,043.4

1.126

75228

check_image

662032

661970

2,379.2

0.193

10688

Total

3894989

3771436	123335	13

39,247.3

0.763

29,967

Notes for Banking Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Drive used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080 localhost/8081
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080 localhost/8081
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.17 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false
2 Tomcat instances used to deploy JSP scripts
First instance connector port 8080
Second instance connector port 8081
numactl --membind node# --cpubind node# used to start two Tomcat instances

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Banking Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

1 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client11:1098 - bill_pay

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client1 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client4 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client5 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client6 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client7 - post_chk_order

13 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client8 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client9 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

12 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client1 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client4 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client5 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client6 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client7 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client8 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client9 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

1 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

15 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client1 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client4 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client5 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client6 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client7 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client8 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client9 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

12 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

Ecommerce Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

index

239660

230814

8845

10,238.3

1.930

138093

120041

119912

129

7,027.2

2.103

189230

browse

215169

205625

9544

10,429.8

2.070

156688

browse_productline

183723

183508

215

10,864.2

2.126

191149

productdetail

146855

146775

2,418.7

1.241

53239

customize1

310680

310414

266

15,860.4

1.891

165021

customize2

164320

164186

134

8,352.0

1.884

164301

customize3

112891

91858

20387

646

6,144.5

2.416

175941

cart

96960

91975

4934

2,177.9

1.446

72609

69256

65888

3147

221

1,023.7

0.896

47783

shipping

65132

863.1

0.719

42834

billing

61878

61853

624.0

0.791

32597

confirm

46307

449.1

0.661

31349

Total

1832872

1784247	47706	919

76,473.0

1.763

134,869

index

238784

223971

14813

9,965.9

2.000

138102

120195

120101

6,873.7

2.129

189230

browse

214345

198892

15453

10,151.0

2.134

156706

browse_productline

183290

183112

178

10,587.7

2.144

191139

productdetail

146362

146273

2,363.4

1.276

53430

customize1

308553

308359

194

15,388.0

1.921

165021

customize2

163376

163267

109

8,112.2

1.914

164299

customize3

112647

86809

24579

1259

5,988.5

2.510

175907

cart

96571

89266

7216

2,121.3

1.547

72683

69022

64976

3538

508

995.1

0.951

47703

shipping

64858

839.6

0.750

42834

billing

61613

61584

607.0

0.856

32597

confirm

46264

438.3

0.707

31349

Total

1825880

1757732	66292	1856

74,431.5

1.812

134,887

index

238934

223687

15247

10,068.1

1.979

138130

120596

120533

6,961.4

2.116

189227

browse

214293

198873

15420

10,243.6

2.110

156698

browse_productline

183348

183309

10,690.8

2.134

191142

productdetail

146569

146522

2,384.1

1.257

53322

customize1

309189

309108

15,564.9

1.908

165022

customize2

163639

163612

8,201.6

1.901

164298

customize3

112880

88488

22847

1545

6,057.3

2.476

175908

cart

96795

89213

7474

108

2,145.0

1.511

72642

68983

65335

3129

519

1,007.7

0.930

47883

shipping

64916

848.2

0.732

42834

billing

61677

61675

613.3

0.831

32597

confirm

46233

442.1

0.688

31349

Total

1828052

1761504	64376	2172

75,228.1

1.793

134,899

Notes for Ecommerce Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Drive used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.17 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Ecommerce Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

No Validation Errors Found

Support Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

home

117419

116572

637

210

848.2

0.904

60335

182966

182098

608

260

596.7

0.580

27238

catalog

169190

168434

504

252

694.0

0.610

34263

product

358335

344931

11109

2295

2,874.9

1.277

67013

fileCatalog

326487

315449

10287

751

4,134.8

1.552

105785

file

196004

187709

7804

491

2,908.9

1.730

123965

download

97852

97782

80,614.0

68.813

6881377

Total

1448253

1412975	30997	4281

92,671.4

5.767

534,485

home

116171

115449

643

832.3

0.971

60328

180811

180365

351

585.0

0.628

27246

catalog

167177

166805

256

116

680.3

0.646

34267

product

353855

331709

20486

1660

2,816.0

1.402

67013

fileCatalog

322423

298553

22913

957

4,050.6

1.715

105791

file

193923

176143

17027

753

2,854.8

1.894

123967

download

96852

96790

79,200.7

68.861

6886180

Total

1431212

1365814	61722	3676

91,019.7

5.883

535,536

home

116520

115918

599

837.2

0.952

60325

181183

180923

258

587.7

0.605

27234

catalog

167692

167591

101

684.3

0.624

34263

product

354805

334595

19196

1014

2,832.0

1.350

67015

fileCatalog

323324

299977

22186

1161

4,073.5

1.687

105778

file

194514

176844

16731

939

2,872.0

1.869

123968

download

97062

97023

79,586.7

68.843

6884394

Total

1435100

1372871	59098	3131

91,473.4

5.850

535,163

Notes for Support Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Drive used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.17 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Support Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

No Validation Errors Found

For questions about this result, please contact the submitter: IBM

First published at SPEC.org on 29-Aug-2006