SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	hp server rp5470
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 3.4r3 64bit

SPECweb99 = 4646

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	4642
2	4648
3	4646
Median	4646

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Nov-2001
HTTP Software	Oct-2001
Operating System	Dec-2001
Supplemental System	Oct-2001

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model hp server rp5470

Processor PA-8700 750Mhz

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 768KBI+1512KBD on chip

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 16 GB

Disk Subsystem 15x18GB 15Krpm, 2x32GB (10K rpm)

Disk Controllers 1xHP A5158A FC Card

Other Hardware HP VA7100 Disk Array

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i (64-bit) + patch

File System See SUT Notes

Other Software B3929CA HP OnLineJFS

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTP Software Zeus 3.4r3 64bit

API ISAPI

Server Cache See Zeus parameters

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Oct-2001
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# 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 15

Model HP 9000/A500-5x

Processor 550Mhz PA-8600

# of Processors 2

Memory 4 GB

Network Controller HP A5230A, PCI 100BaseT

Operating System HPUX 11.0 ACE

Compiler B3901BA B.11.02.02 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 4660

Fileset Size (MB) 15030.4

Notes

SUT Notes

Bound two Zeus instances to processor corresponding to its NIC
Bound Zeus cgi process to the processor that services the fewest clients
Processor binding performed by: mpsched -c cpu# -p pid
OnLineJFS with largefiles option used for logs
All other filesystems are HP-UX HFS
15 (18GB) disks (disk array) used for file_set
1 (32GB) disk used for logs
1 (32GB) disk for OS

Operating System Notes

HP-UX 11i Internet Operating Environment with following patch:
PHNE_24506 - cumulative ARPA transport patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=81 Max buffer cache size as percent of RAM (50)
dbc_mim_pct=81 Min buffer cache size as percent of RAM (5)
maxfiles=60000 Soft file limit per process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard file limit per process (1024)
maxssiz_64bit=0x180000000 Max stack size for 64-bit procs (0x00800000)
maxswapchunks=4868 Max number of swap chunks (256)
maxuprc=10000 Max number of user processes (75)
nfile=550000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=150000 Max number of inodes (444)
nkthread=8000 Max number of kernel threads (499)
nproc=1000 Max number of processes (276)
tcphashsz=16384 Relative scaling factor for TCP&IP int. tables (2048)
vps_ceiling=4096 Max system selected page size [KB] (16)
vps_pagesize=64 Default user page size [KB] (4)
maxdsiz_64bit=0x180000000 (0x40000000)
maxssiz=0x10000000 (0x800000)
maxtsiz=0x10000000 (0x4000000)
ncallout=8000 Max number of pending timeouts (515)

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 356750
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!cache_large_file 512001
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 1000
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 1024
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled yes
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 57000
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!num_children 8
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!keepalive yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit(0.6) used for SPECweb99 dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop

Network Notes

4 HP Procurve 1600M Switches used
Network Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control (32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=1024 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
tcp_conn_strategy=1 Selects TCP connection strategy (0)
Gigabit Tunable Parameters:
send_max_bufs=32 Number of sending buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_max_bufs=12 Number of receiving buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_coal_ticks=10000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (0)
send_coal_ticks=1000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (1000)

Client Notes

3 networks with 4 clients each
1 network with 3 clients
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
ncallout=500 Increase number of pending timeouts
nkthread=8000 Maximum number of system-wide threads

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20010917.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20010917-API.tar.gz

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	4642	99.6%	13294.7	356.4	2.85	336.1
2	4648	99.7%	13304.5	356.1	2.86	336.3
3	4646	99.7%	13313.5	355.8	2.86	336.5

Wed Apr 13 16:55:15 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 13-Nov-2001