SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	ProLiant BL20p G2
Red Hat:	RHCA 2.2

SPECweb99 = 4769

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	4754
2	4769
3	4769
Median	4769

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	May-2003
HTTP Software	Nov-2002
Operating System	Nov-2002
Supplemental System	Nov-2002

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model ProLiant BL20p G2

Processor 3060MHz Intel Xeon

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

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache None

Memory 8 GB

Disk Subsystem 2x36.4GB SCSI (15K rpm)(1 logical RAID 0 disk)

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 5i+ Controller

Other Hardware Anritsu MultiFlow 5128 Switch

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 8.0

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software RHCA 2.2

API RHCA user API

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	May-2003
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 3

Network Controllers 3 Integrated NC7781

# of Nets 3

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 10

Model Compaq Proliant DL380

Processor 1.0GHz Intel Pentium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 128MB

Network Controller Alteon ACENIC 1000SX

Operating System Red Hat 7.3

Compiler gcc 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 4770

Fileset Size (MB) 15381.76

Notes

SUT Notes

1 partition for OS and logs
1 partition for fileset
Disk Controller Cache set to 25% for reads and 75% for writes

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
ulimit -n 10000, set number of open files to 10000, default 1024
net.core.optmem_max=10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.rmem_default=131071, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max=131071, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default=10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max=10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.hot_list_length=300000, maximm number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000, set TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 195584 196096 196608
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1,allows processes to bind to non-local IP adresses
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turn SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
File systems mounted with "noatime,nodiratime", no inode access time updating
NIC 1 bound to logical CPU 0 (Hyper-Threading enabled)
NIC 2 bound to logical CPU 1 (Hyper-Threading enabled)
NIC 3 bound to logical CPU 2 (Hyper-Threading enabled)
Disk Controller bound to logical CPU 3 (Hyper-Threading enabled)

HTTP Software Notes

net.tux.cgiroot=/, cgi root check; default /var/www/tux/cgiroot/
net.tux.cgi_uid=99, userid for cgi scripts; default -1
net.tux.cgi_gid=99, groupid for cgi scripts; default -1
net.tux.mode_allowed=255, allowed file permission bits, default 4
net.tux.mode_forbidden=2, forbidden file permission bits, default 0
net.tux.documentroot=/web, document root for web server, default /var/www/tux
net.tux.logging=1, enable logging, default off
net.tux.threads=4, sets number of TUX threads, default 2
net.tux.max_backlog=3000,maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048
net.tux.noid=1, suppress the Server id string, default 0
net.tux.generate_etags=0, don't generate ETag header, default 1
net.tux.generate_last_mod=0, don't generate Last-Modified header, default 0

HTTP API Notes

Compiled with gcc 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
-fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O2 -Wall -fPIC
-fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O2 -Wall -shared
Flag descriptions in HP-20030317-APIFlags.txt

Network Notes

txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100
Tx_Desc_Count=45, number of transmit descriptors, default 100
Rx_Desc_Count=45, number of recieve descriptors, default 200
NIC 1 & 2 each tied to a single TUX thread
NIC 3 tied to a two TUX threads

Client Notes

net.ipv4.ip_local_range=1024 65535
Network 1 clients at speeds of 452,452,452
Network 2 clients at speeds of 458,457,457
Network 3 clients at speeds of 512,512,512,512

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See Above
Kernel config: HP-20030512-BL20pG2.config.txt
Dynameic API: HP-20030303-RHCA.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	4754	99.7%	13892.7	342.9	2.91	347.6
2	4769	100.0%	13822.1	344.6	2.90	345.8
3	4769	100.0%	13788.5	345.4	2.89	345.2

Wed Apr 13 16:55:25 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 27-May-2003