SPECweb99 Result

IBM:	eServer xSeries 330
Microsoft:	IIS 5.0

SPECweb99 = 1060

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1060
2	1057
3	1060
Median	1060

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Oct-2000
HTTP Software	Feb-2000
Operating System	Feb-2000
Supplemental System	--

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model eServer xSeries 330

Processor 866MHz Pentium III

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 256KB

Other Cache None

Memory 4GB

Disk Subsystem 1 CDROM, 2 9GB SCSI Drives

Disk Controllers IBM ServeRAID 4L

Other Hardware 1 Alteon ACEswitch 180 GbE Switches

Software

Operating System Windows 2000 Advanced Server

File System NTFS

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Microsoft

HTTP Software IIS 5.0

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode W3SVC

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Oct-2000
Tested By	IBM
SPEC License	11

Network

# of Controllers 1

Network Controllers Alteon ACEnet PCI

# of Nets 1

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1000Mb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 6

Model IBM IntelliStation Z Pro

Processor 450MHz Pentium III Xeon

# of Processors 2

Memory 256MB

Network Controller Alteon ACEnic PCI

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Compiler Microsoft VC++ v6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1060

Fileset Size (MB) 3513.6

Notes

SUT Notes

System: Set as file server (background services), the default
Embedded 100Base-TX network adapters were disabled for the test

Operating System Notes

Tuning Parameters:
- Tcpip/Parameters/MaxFreeTwTcbs=220000, sets maximum number of TIME_WAIT tcbs to 220,000
- Tcpip/Parameters/MaxHashTableSize=0x8000, sets TCB hash table size to 16,384 entries, default 512
- Tcpip/Parameters/MaxUserPort=0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534
- Tcpip/Parameters/NumTcbTablePartions=16, sets number of independent TCB table segments, default 4
- Tcpip/Parameters/TcpTimedWaitDelay=60, sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122), default 240
- Inetinfo/Parameters/AcceptExTimeout=1, sets time for accept ex socket to wait for receive, default 120
- Inetinfo/Parameters/ListBacklog=1000, default 25
- Inetinfo/Parameters/LogFileFlushInterval=60, forces flush every 60 seconds, default 300
- Inetinfo/Parameters/ObjectCacheTTL=0xfffff, sets IIS object cache timeout, default 10 minutes
- Inetinfo/Parameters/MaxPoolThreads=4, maximum network request threads per processor, default 10
- Inetinfo/Parameters/PoolThreadLimit=8, maximum pool threads in system, default 2*#MB
- Inetinfo/Parameters/MemCacheSize=1800, maximum amount of memory that IIS will use for its file cache, default 50% of available memory
- Inetinfo/Parameters/MaxCachedFileSize=650000, maximum size of file in bytes that can be placed in the cache, default 262144
Alteon NIC settings:
- RxFlowControl=0 (off), default 1 (On)
- IntCount=10000, sets total number loops DPC would process before interupting, default 1000
- RecvCoalMax=80, sets number of buffers received before notifying host, default 20
- RecvCoalTicks=10000, sets number of microsec before recv buffers are given to host, default 1000
- SendCoalMax=40, sets number of buffers sent before notifying host, default 20
- SendCoalTicks=10000, sets number of microsec before send buffers are returned to host, default 1000
- StatTicks=0, Default 100000

HTTP Software Notes

IIS set for more than 100,000 hits/day
IIS Home Directory: Access for Read & Write, Scripts & Executables
IIS Virtual Directory spec99 points back to web server root, low application protection
IIS Logging: W3C Extended logging, defaults plus bytes sent; minus user agent

HTTP API Notes

Microsoft ISAPI for IIS 5.0 compiled with VC++6.0 code optimization=Pentium Pro
CGI program is in IBM-20000612-ISAPI.zip

Hardware Notes

2 disk in RAID0 64K stripe, write through mode, rebuild priority low, 8 MB cache
All drives formated NTFS
System on "C" with default file allocation size
Benchmark files on "E" with file allocation size 128K
Logfile on "F" with file allocation size 32K

Client Notes

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

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	1060	100.0%	2945.0	360.3	2.78	333.6
2	1057	99.7%	2926.3	362.5	2.76	331.1
3	1060	100.0%	2941.9	360.7	2.78	332.8

Mon Apr 25 12:38:11 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 31-Oct-2000