SPECweb99 Result

Fujitsu Siemens Computers:	Primergy TX300
Red Hat:	RHCA 2.2(2.2.9-1)

SPECweb99 = 5668

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	5670
2	5668
3	5668
Median	5668

Configuration

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

Hardware

Vendor Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Model Primergy TX300

Processor 3.06GHz 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 12 GB

Disk Subsystem 5x18 GB Seagate ST318452LC

Disk Controllers Onboard Adaptec 7902

Other Hardware BX300 Blade: 4 Broadcom Switches

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 8.0(2.4.18-24)

File System ext2

Other Software network controller driver version e1000-5.0.43

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software RHCA 2.2(2.2.9-1)

API RHCA user API

Server Cache none

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	May-2003
Tested By	Fujitsu Siemens
SPEC License	22

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 MT dual

# 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 5670

Fileset Size (MB) 18265.84

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS
4 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=300000, 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
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-20030526-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

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	5670	100.0%	16195.3	350.3	2.86	340.5
2	5668	100.0%	16040.3	353.7	2.83	337.0
3	5668	100.0%	15964.0	355.4	2.82	335.5

Mon Sep 20 12:57:22 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 10-Jun-2003