SPECweb99_SSL Result

Sun Microsystems:	Sun Fire X4200
Zeus Technology Ltd.:	Zeus Web Server 4.3r1 (64 bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 3158

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	3158
2	3155
3	3158
Median	3158

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Oct-2005
HTTPS Software	Jan-2005
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Oct-2005

Hardware

Vendor Sun Microsystems

Model Sun Fire X4200

Processor AMD Opteron 254, 2.8 GHz

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

Primary Cache 64KBI + 64KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 1MB on chip

Other Cache none

Memory 16 GB DDR400

Disk Subsystem 3 x 73GB 10K Internal SAS

Disk Controllers Onboard LSI 1064 SAS Controller

Other Hardware 1 Cisco Systems Catalyst 3750G-24T Switch

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 SP1

File System ext2

Other Software LSI Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.02.18

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Ltd.

HTTPS Software Zeus Web Server 4.3r1 (64 bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for Dynamic content

Server Cache none

Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Aug-2005
Tested By	Sun Microsystems
SPEC License	6

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers onboard Intel 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet (x2)

# 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 8

Model Sun Fire V240

Processor 1280MHz UltraSPARC IIIi

# of Processors 2

Memory 8192MB

Network Controller Sun GigaSwift Ethernet

Operating System Solaris 9 09/04

Compiler Sun Workshop 6 update 2 C 5.3

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 3160

Fileset Size (MB) 10233.36

Notes

SUT Notes

1 Internal 73GB 10K SAS disk for OS, and swap
1 Internal 73GB 10K SAS disk for fileset and post log
1 Internal 73GB 10K SAS disk for access log

Operating System Notes

irqbalancer disabled
Network port 1, ioc0, and ohci_hcd, irq bound to CPU0
Network port 2, and timer, irq bound to CPU1, client loading adjusted accordingly
Bound each Zeus process to CPU corresponding to NIC irq binding with taskset
ulimit -n 72720, sets number of open files, default 1024
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000 via ifconfig, default 1000
log & fileset partitions mounted 'noatime, nodiratime, noacl', no inode access time updating, no access control lists
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, kernel should not attempt to forward packets. Off by default, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
fs.file-max = 291879, maximum number of open files, default 1024

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
runningsite/wstest: bindaddr IP addr. (Port1) IP addr. (Port2)
global.cfg:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 282011
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!cache_small_file 10000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 12884901888
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 2048
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!num_cgid 2
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 6037
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
See SUN-20050815-Zeus-tunings.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters.

HTTP API Notes

Zeus PEPP configured with command: ./Configure --ssl=yes
Zeus PEPP compiled with default gcc (v3.3.3-43.28)

Client Notes

set sq_max_size=0, set hires_tick=1
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 2048
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000
Client code generated with: CFLAGS=-xO4 -xchip=ultra -xarch=v8plusa
./configure --enable-posix-threads --enable-gethostbyname_r --enable-pthread_scope_system --enable-rlimit --enable-safe-usleep=no

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above.
Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
Client Tuning Disclosure: Sun-20020610.txt
1 Cisco Systems Catalyst 3750G-24T Switch used for 2 networks

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	3158	99.9%	8693.3	363.4	2.75	329.6
2	3155	99.8%	8664.7	364.5	2.74	328.7
3	3158	99.9%	8676.8	364.0	2.75	329.2

Wed Sep 28 09:50:20 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 28-Sep-2005