SPECweb99 Result

Dell:	PowerEdge 8450/700
Red Hat:	TUX 1.0

SPECweb99 = 6387

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	6372
2	6387
3	6397
Median	6387

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2000
HTTP Software	Sep-2000
Operating System	Sep-2000
Supplemental System	Sep-2000

Hardware

Vendor Dell

Model PowerEdge 8450/700

Processor 700MHz Pentium III Xeon

# Processors 8 cores, 8 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 2MB(I+D)

Other Cache None

Memory 32 GB

Disk Subsystem 5 9GB 10KRPM drives

Disk Controllers Onboard Symbios SCSI

Other Hardware 8 Alteon ACEswitch 180

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 6.2 Threaded Web Server Add-On

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software TUX 1.0

API TUX user API

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jul-2000
Tested By	Dell
SPEC License	55

Network

# of Controllers 8

Network Controllers Alteon ACEnic 1000-SX

# of Nets 8

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1Gb/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 Alteon ACEnic 1000-SX

Operating System Windows 2000 Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 6400

Fileset Size (MB) 20598.48

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS
4 disk software RAID0 stripe, using 2MB chunk size, for fileset and logs

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, disables packet forwarding, default 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 16384 65536, default 32768 61000
net.core.rmem_max = 10485760, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max = 10485760, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_default = 10485760, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10485760, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
fs.file-max = 40960, maximum number of open files, default 8192
vm.bdflush = 100 5000 640 2560 150 30000 5000 1884 2 (see tuning description file)
vm.freepages = 16384 32768 65536 (see tuning description file)
Alteon tx_coal_tick = 300, default 0 (not set)
Alteon rx_coal_tick = 300, default 0 (not set)
See .config file for kernel build information
Tested TUX version based on 2.3 kernel, released version based on 2.4 kernel

Client Notes

Tcpip/Parameters/MaxUserPort = 0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534.

Other Notes

TUX Configuration:
Each NIC IRQ bound to a different CPU.
Each TUX thread's listening address bound to 1 NIC's associated network
net.tux.threads = 8, sets number of TUX threads, default 2
net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging of requests, default 0
net.tux.logentry_align_order = 0, sets alignment of log entry records in logfile, default 5
net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000
net.tux.max_cached_filesize = 100000000, maximum size of cached object, default 100000
net.tux.serverport = 80
net.tux.max_backlog = 3000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048

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	6372	99.6%	17913.5	356.5	2.80	334.0
2	6387	99.8%	17912.7	356.5	2.80	334.3
3	6397	100.0%	18002.6	354.8	2.81	335.8

Wed Apr 13 16:34:58 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 25-Jul-2000