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Sun Microsystems, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 UltraSPARC T2Plus, SS7310 and Sun Communications Suite7 SPECmail2009 sessions/hour = 69,857
SPEC license # 6 Tested by:
Sun Microsystems		 Test date:
Oct-2009		 Hardware Avail:
Jul-2009		 Software Avail:
Oct-2008

69,857 SPECmail2009 sessions per hour is equivalent to 14,500 SPECmail_Ent2009 users.

Detail Summary | General Notes
System configurations: IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server | Benchmark manager+Load Generator+SMTP Sink | Load Generator | Load Generator | Configuration diagram


Summary Results
Function Response
time limit
(seconds)		 Required
Percentage
Compliant		 Percentage Compliant
100%
SMTP Connect 5 >95% 100.00%
SMTP Data 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP APPEND 5 >95% 96.67%
IMAP Connect 5 >95% 99.91%
IMAP EXPUNGE 5 >95% 96.09%
IMAP FETCH_NUM_BODYALL 5 >95% 97.36%
IMAP FETCH_RANGE_ENVELOPE_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_INTERNALDATE_RFC822SIZE_UID 5 >95% 98.78%
IMAP LIST 5 >95% 99.99%
IMAP LSUB_NULL_WILDCARD 5 >95% 99.99%
IMAP SELECT_FOLDER 5 >95% 98.42%
IMAP SELECT_INBOX 5 >95% 96.93%
IMAP STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 99.90%
IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 99.85%
IMAP UID_FETCH_RANGE_UID_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_RFC822SIZE 5 >95% 99.34%
IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_SEEN 5 >95% 99.88%
Error Rate NA <1% 0.00%

IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server (1 system)
Software
IMAP, SMTP and LDAP Software: Sun Communications Suite 7 Update2, Sun Java System Messaging Server 7.2 Operating System: Solaris 10
Availability: Aug-2007 File System: ufs and zfs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: UltraSPARC T2Plus
Model Name: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 UltraSPARC T2Plus CPU MHz: 1582
Availability: Jul-2009 CPUs Enabled: 2(8 cores on each. 8 threads on each core)
Disk Subsystem: 2x146GB SAS 10Krpm Internal disks, 4x32GB SSD Internal disks, 2xSun Storage 7310 Unified Storage systems, 2x500GB 5400rpm SATA Internal disks on each 7310 for System OS, 2xJ4400 JBOD storage Arrays (24x1TB 7200rpm SATA disks on each) attached to 7310s Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 8KB(D) on chip per core
Memory (MB): 130848 Secondary Cache: 4MB I+D on chip per chip
Network: Sun[TM] Gigaswift Ethernet onboard Controller 1Gb/s for the private network switch connection to the clients: X4600, X4240, X4275 through a Gigabit Ethernet Switch Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information 
This Mailserver host is the single node IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server
Notes/Tuning Information
*IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Tuning only, not any installation steps
**Dispatcher Tunings
MIN_PROCS=100
MAX_PROCS=150
MIN_CONNS=30
MAX_CONNS=50
MAX_HANDSOFFS=100
**Job Controller Tuning
IMS_POOL job_limit=12
MAX_MESSAGES=1000000
service.imap.numprocesses=6
store.dbcachesize=640000000
store.dbtmpdir=/tmp/mboxlist
nsslapd-dbcachesize=3221225472
service.authcachesize=500000
service.authcachettl=7200
ALLOW_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=1500
ALLOW_TRANSACTIONS_PER_SESSION=1500
REJECT_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=2500

Benchmark manager+Load Generator+SMTP Sink (1 system)
Software
JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17_b04 ((no JIT)) Operating System: Solaris 10 X64
Availability: Oct-2008 File System: ufs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: AMD Opteron 8384
Model Name: Sun Fire X4600 AMD Opteron 8384 CPU MHz: 2700
Availability: Jul-2006 CPUs Enabled: 8(4 cores each)
Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB, 10K rpm SAS Primary Cache: 16KB(I) + 16KB(D) on chip per core
Memory (MB): 64960 Secondary Cache: 512MB I+D on chip per core
Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface Other Cache: 2MB(I) + 2MB(D) on chip per chip
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information 
**X4600 system is the benchmark manager, load generator and the SMTP Sink
**1 X4240 system and 1 X4275 system  are the load generators
**The X4600, X4200 and X4275 clients are communicating with the SUT T5240 via a private net Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Load Generator (1 system)
Software
JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17_b04 ((no JIT)) Operating System: Solaris 10 X64
Availability: Oct-2008 File System: ufs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: AMD Opteron 2384
Model Name: Sun Fire X4240 AMD Opteron 2384 CPU MHz: 2700
Availability: Jan-2006 CPUs Enabled: 2(4 cores each)
Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB, 10K rpm SAS Primary Cache: 64KB(I) + 64KB(D) on chip per core
Memory (MB): 16284 Secondary Cache: 1MB I+D on chip per core
Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface Other Cache: N/A
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information 

   		
  

 













Load Generator (1 system)




 

  
Software

  

JVM:
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17_b04 ((no JIT))
Operating System:
Solaris 10 X64
  

  

Availability:
Oct-2008
File System:
ufs
  

 





 

  
Hardware

  

Vendor:
Sun Microsystems
CPU:
Intel Xeon X5570
  

  

Model Name:
Sun Fire X4275 Intel Xeon X5570
CPU MHz:
2930
  

  

Availability:
Jun-2009
CPUs Enabled:
2(4 cores each)
  

  

Disk Subsystem:
2 x 300GB, 15K rpm SAS
Primary Cache:
32KB(I) + 32KB(D) on chip, per core
  

  

Memory (MB):
73720
Secondary Cache:
256KB(I) + 256KB(D) on chip, per core
  

  

Network:
Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface
Other Cache:
8MB(I)+8MB(D) on chip per chip
  

  

# of Systems:
1
Other:
No Hyperthreading on
  

 





 

  

Notes / Tuning Information
  

  

   


   		
  

 















General Notes / Tuning Information




*Following are the OS Tunings only for all the Servers and Clients, not any installation steps

**set rlim_fd_max=1048576: Hard limit on the open file descripters for a single process

**set autoup=36000000: Controls the frequency in seconds of entire physical memory to be scanned for dirty pages

**set tune_t_fsflushr=600: Reduces fsflush daemon overhead

**set rlim_fd_cur=1048576: Defines a "soft" limit on file descriptors that a single process can have open

*Following are the NETWORK Configurations and Tunings

**All the network connections and the routing are resolved using UNIX hosts file

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 800000

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 800000

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 81920

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 81920

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_max_buf 4194304

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_cwnd_max 2097152

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 8192

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval 60000

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_ip_abort_interval 60000

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_naglim_def 1

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_mss_min 108

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast 0

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_directed_broadcasts 0

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_strict_dst_multihoming 1

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 0

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_src_routed 0

**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000

**All total 15 Java load generator instances were configured on the 1 Sun Fire X4600, 1 Sun Fire X4275 and

***1 Sun Fire X4240 Clients at the 1200-1214 ports for all IMAP users

***1 Java load generator instance was configured on the 1100 port for the

***SMTP sink. Following Java options were used for the load generators:

***java -d64 -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:+AggressiveHeap

**The Benchmark runs through a private network between the load generators

***and the SUT via a Gigabit Ethernet Switch

***The Mailserver is attached to 2 Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage Systems NAS Appliances

***Each 7310 is equipped with 2 AMD Opteron, Model 2356, 2.3GHz, 32GB memory,

***attached with 1 J4400 (24x1TB 7200RPM SATA disks) JBOD array

***and configured as 2 mirrored devices and 4 shared ZFS volumes on each mirrored device

***The SUT is connected to 7310s via Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber

***Total 8 volumes are mounted on the SUT Mail indexes and Mail messages using NFSV4 protocol. Following mount options were used

***nointr,hard,xattr

***Availability of the mailstores maximizes with the UPS protected Storage Systems

***2x146GB, 10Krpm internal SAS disks are used on the SUT for System OS and swap, 4 internal SSDs(32GB each) were configured as 4 seperate ZPOOLs and 4 ZFS file systems used for log, queue, store metadata and LDAP

Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Sun Communications Suite7 Update2 Sun Java System Messaging Server 7.2




Errors




    

    There were no errors reported in the raw file.



    

    There were no Quality of Service (QoS) failures.





Warnings




Quality of Service (QoS) warnings do not invalidate the result but are included as additional information:

    

  • IMAP LOGIN: 191 out of 1,506 transactions (12.68%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
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  • IMAP UID_COPY_RANGE_FOLDER: 280 out of 4,390 transactions (6.38%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
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  • IMAP UID_COPY_SERIES_FOLDER: 79 out of 644 transactions (12.27%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
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  • IMAP UID_FETCH_RANGE_UID_BODYPEEK_RFC822SIZE: 54 out of 333 transactions (16.22%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
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  • Remote Delivery Failure: 15,991 out of 17,400 messages (91.90%) were received by the remote mail sink during the 100% load run. The remote mail sink must receive at least 95% of the remote mail sent during the 100% load run.
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First published at SPEC.org on 13-Nov-2009


Benchmark run on Wed Oct 21 09:54:58 EDT 2009 by SPECmail2009 v1.0 (200902201013)

Report generated on Fri Nov 13 14:02:34 EST 2009 by SPECmail2009 v1.0.1 (200910021332)