SPECweb99_SSL Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP ProLiant BL30p
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus V4.2r4

SPECweb99_SSL = 1416

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1416
2	1415
3	1416
Median	1416

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Dec-2004
HTTPS Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Nov-2003

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant BL30p

Processor 3.2GHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache 2MB L3

Memory 4GB (2x2GB PC2100 DDR)

Disk Subsystem 2x60GB ATA100

Disk Controllers Integrated ATA

Other Hardware 2xHP BladeSystem Patch Panel

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

File System ext2

Other Software none

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r4

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for dynamic content

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary Common Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	May-2005
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Integrated NC7781

# of Nets 2

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 4

Model HP ProLiant DL360 G3

Processor 3.06GHz 1MB L3 cache Intel Xeon

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

Memory 512MB

Network Controller 2xIntegrated NC7781

Operating System Windows Server 2003 Std. Edition

Compiler Mircosoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1416

Fileset Size (MB) 4650.64

Notes

SUT Notes

1 drive used for OS and log, 1 drive used for workload
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class enclosure
1xHP BladeSystem p-Class Power Subsystem

Operating System Notes

Filesystem mounted with noatime,nodiratime - no inode access time updateing, no access control lists
irq_balancer disabled, default enabled
Each NIC irq bound to two logical CPUs
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000, default 100
ulimit -n 72720, sets number of open files, default 1024
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter = 1 #enables source route verification, default 0
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps =1 #turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000 #sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000 #maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000 #maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000 #maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 31744 32256 32768
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max = 10000000 #maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default = 10000000 #default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max = 10000000 #maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default = 10000000 #default send socket buffer size, default 65535
/proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max = 10000000 #default 10240
/proc/sys/fs/file-max = 291879 #maximum number of open files, default 1024

HTTPS Software Notes

tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 282011
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!keepalive_timeout 3600
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 2500
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 7507
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
See HP-20030414-tunings.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters

HTTP API Notes

Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
Zeus PEPP configured with the ./Configure --ssl=yes

Client Notes

The alternative performance neutral alt.Win32 client was used.
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 receive window size, default 8192

Other Notes

Server kernel: default SLES 9 (2.6.5-7.97-smp)

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	1416	100.0%	3880.2	364.7	2.74	328.8
2	1415	99.9%	3874.6	365.4	2.74	328.0
3	1416	100.0%	3895.7	363.4	2.75	329.6

Tue May 24 12:47:06 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 24-May-2005