SPECweb99 Result

Dell:	PowerEdge 1550/1000
Red Hat:	TUX 2.0

SPECweb99 = 2765

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2767
2	2764
3	2765
Median	2765

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Dec-2000
HTTP Software	Jan-2001
Operating System	Aug-2000
Supplemental System	Dec-2000

Hardware

Vendor Dell

Model PowerEdge 1550/1000

Processor 1000MHz Pentium III

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

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 256KB ATC

Other Cache None

Memory 2 GB

Disk Subsystem 2 9GB 10KRPM drives, 8 18gig 15K RPM drives

Disk Controllers Onboard Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI

Other Hardware 2 Alteon ACEswitch 180

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 6.2 Threaded Web Server Add-On

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software TUX 2.0

API TUX user API

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Nov-2000
Tested By	Dell
SPEC License	55

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Alteon AceNIC 1000SX

# of Nets 2

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 10

Model Dell Precision 410

Processor 450MHz Pentium II

# of Processors 2

Memory 128MB

Network Controller Alteon ACEnic 1000-SX

Operating System Windows 2000 Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2770

Fileset Size (MB) 8984.08

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS, 1 disk logs
8 disk software RAID1 mirror for fileset.

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, disables packet forwarding, default 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 100000000 100000000 100000000, maximum total TCP buffer-space allocatable.
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 100000000 100000000 100000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable.
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable.
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 16384 65536, default 32768 61000
net.core.hot_list_length = 102400, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers.
net.core.rmem_max = 10485760, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max = 10485760, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_default = 10485760, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10485760, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
fs.file-max = 40960, maximum number of open files, default 8192
vm.bdflush = 100 5000 640 2560 150 30000 5000 1884 2 (see tuning description file)
vm.freepages = 16384 32768 65536 (see tuning description file)
See .config file for kernel build information

Client Notes

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

Other Notes

TUX Configuration:
Each NIC IRQ bound to a different CPU.
Each TUX thread's listening address bound to 1 NIC's associated network
net.http.threads = 2, sets number of TUX threads, default 2
net.http.logging = 1, turns on logging of requests, default 0
net.http.logentry_align_order = 0, sets alignment of log entry records in logfile, default 5
net.http.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
net.http.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000
net.http.max_cached_filesize = 100000000, maximum size of cached object, default 100000
net.http.page_age_start = 3, age of a page when it gets added to the pagecache, default 1
net.http.serverport = 80
net.http.max_backlog = 3000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048

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	2767	99.9%	7912.0	349.3	2.86	341.1
2	2764	99.8%	7905.6	349.6	2.85	341.0
3	2765	99.8%	7908.7	349.4	2.86	341.3

Wed Apr 13 16:35:00 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 12-Dec-2000