SPECweb99_SSL Result

Dell:	PowerEdge 6650
Zeus:	Zeus 4.2r2

SPECweb99_SSL = 2540

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2540
2	2539
3	2540
Median	2540

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Feb-2004
HTTPS Software	Mar-2003
Operating System	Oct-2003
Supplemental System	Mar-2003

Hardware

Vendor Dell

Model PowerEdge 6650

Processor 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor MP

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache 4MB L3

Memory 16 GB

Disk Subsystem 1 36GB, 14 18GB 15K RPM drives

Disk Controllers Onboard Adaptec SCSI, LSI 21320-IS

Other Hardware 4 Dell PowerConnect 5012 switch
1 Dell PowerConnect 5224 switch
1 Dell PowerVault 220S disk enclosure

Software

Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.2r2

API Zeus PEPP 0.8

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jan-2004
Tested By	Dell
SPEC License	55

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter

# of Nets 8

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 16

Model 8 Dell PowerEdge 1550, 8 Dell PowerEdge 1650

Processor 1.26/1.4GHz Pentium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 256MB

Network Controller Intel PRO/1000 XT

Operating System Windows XP Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2540

Fileset Size (MB) 8247.2

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS attached to onboard SCSI
7 disk software RAID0 stripe for logs attached to external LSI channel
7 disk software RAID0 stripe for file attached to external LSI channel
Hyper-Threading enabled, Sequential Memory Access enabled in BIOS

Operating System Notes

ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 20000 via ifconfig, default 1000
Each NIC IRQ bound to a separate logical CPU (Hyper-Threading enabled)
Timer IRQ bound to CPU1, default CPU0
File systems mounted with "noatime,nodiratime", no inode access time updating
fs.file-max = 524288, sets open file limit, default 3355443
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 450000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/default/max TCP read buffer, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP write buffer, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
Kernel parameters:
idle=poll, idle threads poll reschedule flag, default is to use HLT instruction

HTTPS Software Notes

global.cfg settings:
tuning!bind_any no, Zeus instances listen on all interfaces, default yes
tuning!cbuff_size 65536, CGI buffer size, default 8192
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes, accept connections only when client data available, default no
tuning!isapi!enabled yes, enable ISAPIs
tuning!keepalive_max 1000, max number of keepalives allowed, default 256
tuning!keepalive_timeout 20, close connection after 20 secs inactivity, default 15
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192, increase TCP listen queue, default 256
tuning!maxaccept 64, maximum number of accepts per socket per poll/select, default 32
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0, smallest file to be sent with sendfile, default 32768
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0, largest file to be sent with sendfile, default 2GB
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576, set socket write buffer, default not set
tuning!softservers no, disable software virtual servers, default yes
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 7573, SSL session cache size, default 199
tuning!unique_bind yes, bind each network to a specific Zeus instance, default no
modules!cgi!enabled yes, enable CGIs
modules!security!enabled yes, enable SSL
Virtual Server configuration:
ip_name = sol
bind_addr = 192.2.1.132 192.2.2.132 192.2.3.132 192.2.4.132 \
192.2.5.132 192.6.132 192.2.7.132 192.2.8.132

Network Notes

One PowerConnect 5012 connected per net (4 networks)
One PowerConnect 5224 segmented into 4 VLANs (1 network per VLAN)

Client Notes

manager.ssl.rcp.alt.WIN32, alt.WIN32 client used
Registry tunes:
- Tcpip\Parameters\MaxUserPort=0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534
- Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay=60, sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122), default 240
- Tcpip\Parameters\MaxFreeTWTcbs=100000, sets maximum number of TIME_WAIT tcbs to 100,000
- Tcpip\Parameters\TcpWindowSize=65535, sets TCP send\receive window size, default 8192

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above
Kernel .config: Dell-20040202-PE6650-config.txt
Dynamic API and compiler flags: HP-20020724-API.tar.gz
API configured with --locking=lockf --ssl=yes --64bit=no

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	2540	100.0%	7011.3	362.0	2.76	331.0
2	2539	100.0%	7052.2	360.0	2.78	332.5
3	2540	100.0%	7038.2	360.7	2.77	332.2

Wed Apr 13 17:01:44 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 18-Feb-2004