SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP9000 Model A500
Zeus Technology Ltd.:	Zeus 3.3.6

SPECweb99 = 1031

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1032
2	1028
3	1031
Median	1031

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Aug-2000
HTTP Software	Apr-2000
Operating System	Mar-2000
Supplemental System	Apr-2000

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP9000 Model A500

Processor 440 MHz PA-8500

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

Primary Cache 512KBI+1024KBD

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 8 GB

Disk Subsystem 2 A5574A (18GB)

Disk Controllers Internal LVD SCSI

Other Hardware None

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11.ACE

File System HFS

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Ltd.

HTTP Software Zeus 3.3.6

API ISAPI

Server Cache See Notes

Log Mode Common Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	May-2000
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 1

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI 1000Base-SX

# of Nets 1

Type of Nets 1000Base-SX

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 11

Model HP B180L

Processor PA-7300LC 180MHz

# of Processors 1

Memory 128MB

Network Controller HP PCI 100BT

Operating System HP-UX 11.ACE

Compiler HP C/ANSI C (B3899BA)

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1032

Fileset Size (MB) 3420.88

Notes

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Parameters:
ninode 8000 (in-core inodes)
nfile 35000 (in-core filedescriptors)
maxfiles 35000 (max descriptors per process)
maxfiles_lim 35000 (absolute max descriptors per process)
nproc 500 (absolute number of processes)
tcphashsz 16384 (hash table scaling factor for TCP connections)
dbc_min_pct 50 (use at least 50% of memory for buffer cache)
dbc_max_pct 50 (use at most 50% of memory for buffer cache)
Network Transport Parameters (ndd):
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def 1048576 (bump highwater mark)
tcp_conn_request_max 1024 (bump connection limits)
tcp_conn_strategy 1 (allocate memory assuming reuse)
Network Interface Parameters (gbeutil):
recv_coal_ticks 10000 (max of 0.1 seconds before inbound interrupt)
send_coal_ticks 1000 (max of 0.01 seconds before outbound interrupt)
recv_max_bufs 12 (max of 12 inbound buffers before interrupt)
send_max_bufs 32 (max of 32 outbound buffers before interrupt)

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Tuning Values:
cache_files 60000 (cache up to 60,000 files)
cache_max_bytes 0 (do not limit total size of cache)
cache_small_file 0 (keep any file no matter how small)
cache_large_file 1048576 (keep any file less than 1MB)
cache_stat_expire 864000 (check for file updates daily)
cache_flush_interval 864000 (flush cached files daily)
sendfile yes (use the HP-UX sendfile system call)
sendfile_reservefd 30001 (keep lots of descriptors available for sendfile)
sendfile_minsize 0 (no file is too small for a sendfile)
listen_queue_size 8192 (allow more connections to queue)
timeout 7200 (don't give up on a client easily)
keepalive_max -1 (no limit on number of keepalive connections)
unique_bind yes (dedicate one listener to each listed ip addr.)
bind_any no (don't bind the listen socket to IN_ADDR_ANY)
Zeus Site Configuration:
modules!stats!enabled no (don't bother to measure statistics)
modules!nsapi!enabled no (don't need any NSAPI support)
modules!isapi!enabled yes (we do rely on the ISAPI features)
modules!fastcgi!enabled yes (support the FastCGI interface)
Zeus Installation Notes:
Set LargePage attribute on all Zeus binaries [chatr +pi 16M +pd 16M]

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used for most dynamic content
FastCGI used as communication method to manage all the independant CGI processes

Software Notes

HP-UX System Patches:
PHNE_20125 ndd general patch
PHNE_20316 Cumulative STREAMS Patch

Network Notes

All Clients wired via 100BT to one HP ProCurve 1600s
SUT wired to a 1000-SX module within the HP ProCurve 1600

Client Notes

Client's HP-UX Parameters:
ncallout 5000 (increase number of potential pending items)
max_thread_proc 800 (allow more threads per process)

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	1032	100.0%	2902.3	353.6	2.81	338.6
2	1028	99.6%	2833.6	362.2	2.75	330.3
3	1031	99.9%	2853.7	359.5	2.77	333.1

Wed Apr 13 16:54:58 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 22-Aug-2000