SPECweb99 Result

Fujitsu Siemens Computers:	PRIMERGY TX300
Red Hat:	RHCA 3.2(3.2.14-1)

SPECweb99 = 7573

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	7576
2	7573
3	7549
Median	7573

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	May-2004
HTTP Software	Oct-2003
Operating System	Oct-2003
Supplemental System	Oct-2003

Hardware

Vendor Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Model PRIMERGY TX300

Processor 3.20GHz Intel Xeon

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

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache 2MB L3 cache

Memory 12 GB

Disk Subsystem 14x18 GB Fujitsu MAS3184NC

Disk Controllers LSI MegaRAID (2 channel)

Other Hardware Primergy S30 (via channel 0)
BX300 Blade: 4 Broadcom Switches

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux AS3(2.4.21-4)

File System ext2

Other Software LSI driver megaraid-2.00.3
NIC driver e1000-5.2.22
gcc-3.2.3-20

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software RHCA 3.2(3.2.14-1)

API RHCA user API

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Jan-2004
Tested By	Fujitsu Siemens
SPEC License	22

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 MT dual (PCI-X)

# of Nets 4

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 20

Model Primergy BX300 Blade

Processor 933MHz Pentium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 1024 MB

Network Controller Broadcom NetXtreme onboard

Operating System MS Windows 2000 Server (SP3)

Compiler --

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 7580

Fileset Size (MB) 24375.6

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS
13 disk for 'specweb' (file_set, logs),software RAID0
- using 2MB chunk size for the raid array (/etc/raidtab: default 64k)
set noatime,nodiratime,nocheck for specweb mount (etc/fstab):
- noatime/nodiratime: Do not update inode access times on this file system.
- nocheck: No checking is done. ("no check on mount")
Hyper-Threading enabled

Operating System Notes

ulimit -n 10000, sets number of open files, default 1024
/proc/sys/net
- core.optmem_max=10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
- core.rmem_default=10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- core.rmem_max=10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
- core.wmem_default=10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
- core.wmem_max=10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
- core.hot_list_length=5000, maximm number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
- core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
- ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000, set TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- ipv4.tcp_rmem=30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
- ipv4.tcp_wmem=30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
- ipv4.tcp_mem=30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 195584 196096 196608
- ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
- ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
- ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
- ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling support off, default on
- ipv4.ip_forward=1, default off
/proc/sys/vm
- dcache_priority=1000000,lowers #entries zapped from dcache each iteration, default 0
Kernel parameters:
- idle=poll, idle threads poll reschedule flag, default: use HLT instruction

HTTP Software Notes

/etc/sysconfig/tux:
- DOCROOT=/specweb, default: /var/www/html
- CGI_UID=99, userid for cgi scripts; default: -1
- CGI_GID=99, groupid for cgi scripts; default: -1
- CGIROOT=/, cgi root check; default: /var/www/html
- TUXMODULES=CAD_u.tux, list of user-space TUX modules
- MODULEPATH=/, path to user-space TUX modules
/proc/sys/net
- tux.mode_allowed=255, allowed file permission bits; default: 4
- tux.mode_forbidden=2, forbidden file permission bits; default: 0
- tux.logging=1, enable logging; default: off (0)
- tux.logfile=/specweb/log/tux, TUX logfile; default: /var/log/tux
- tux.max_connect=50000, default: 1000
- tux.max_backlog=3000, max size of SYN backlog (TUX listening socket); default: 2048
- tux.generate_etags=0, no ETag header; default: 1
- tux.generate_last_mod=0, no last modified header; default: 1
- tux.noid=1, no server ID string; default: 0
- tux.cgi_inherit_cpu=1, CGI scripts inherit the CPU-binding; default: off (0)
/proc/net
- tux.0.listen.0=http://10.100.1.100:80, tie NIC to 1. TUX thread, default 0
- tux.1.listen.0=http://10.100.2.100:80, tie NIC to 2. TUX thread, default 0
- tux.2.listen.0=http://10.100.3.100:80, tie NIC to 3. TUX thread, default 0
- tux.3.listen.0=http://10.100.4.100:80, tie NIC to 4. TUX thread, default 0
/etc/tux.mime.types
- uncomment: TUX/redirect, TUX/CGI, TUX/module

HTTP API Notes

Archived in 'Fujitsu-Siemens-20040203-tux.tar'
- CAD_u.c, DYN_get_script.c, dof (compiler flags)
- config.tux, config.kernel

Network Notes

Intel PRO/1000 MT Server Adapter
(insmod e1000 eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3)
- FlowControl=0 (off), default read settings from the EEPROM
- RxDescriptors=768, default 256
- TxDescriptors=4096, default 256
(ifconfig eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3)
- txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length; default 100
/proc/irq
- 20.smp_affinity=00000001, lock IRQ of NIC to 1. processor; default 0xffffffff
- 21.smp_affinity=00000002, lock IRQ of NIC to 2. processor; default 0xffffffff
- 22.smp_affinity=00000004, lock IRQ of NIC to 3. processor; default 0xffffffff
- 23.smp_affinity=00000008, lock IRQ of NIC to 4. processor; default 0xffffffff
- 28.smp_affinity=00000001, lock IRQ of LSI to 1. processor; default 0xffffffff
- 0.smp_affinity=00000002, lock IRQ of TIMER to 2. processor; default 0xffffffff

Client Notes

NDIS registry tuning parameters [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NDIS\Parameters\]:
- ProcessorAffinityMask=0, default 1 (any processor)
TCP/IP registry tuning parameters [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\]:
- MaxHashTableSize=0x4000, sets TCB hash table size to 16384 entries, default is 512.
- TcpTimedWaitDelay=0x3c, sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122), default is 240.
- MaxFreeTwTcbs=400000, sets maximum number of TIME_WAIT tcbs to 400,000.
- MaxFreeTcbs=0x16000, sets number of cached (pre-allocated) TCBs, default 1000
- MaxUserPort=0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534.
- TcpWindowSize=65535, sets TCP send/receive window size, default 8192.
- NumTcbTablePartitions=32, sets number of independent TCB table segments, default 4.

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	7576	99.9%	21553.3	351.8	2.84	339.0
2	7573	99.9%	21405.2	354.2	2.82	336.5
3	7549	99.6%	21311.9	355.8	2.81	335.1

Thu Apr 14 11:44:05 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 17-Feb-2004