SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	ProLiant BL40p
Red Hat:	RHCA 2.2

SPECweb99 = 5751

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	5751
2	5751
3	5741
Median	5751

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jul-2003
HTTP Software	Aug-2003
Operating System	Jul-2003
Supplemental System	Sept-2003

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model ProLiant BL40p

Processor 2.80GHz Intel Xeon

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

Primary Cache 0K micro-ops I + 8KBD

Secondary Cache 512KB(I+D) on chip

Other Cache 2MB(I+D) on chip L3

Memory 12GB

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

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 5i Plus

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	Aug-2003
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers 4 Integrated NC7781

# 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 12

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 5751

Fileset Size (MB) 18524.48

Notes

SUT Notes

HP ProLiant BL40p System ROM: I02 07/25/2003
HP Smart Array 5i Plus Firmware: 2.38
Disk Controller Cache set to 100% write, default 50% read and 50% write
1 partition for OS and logs
1 partition for fileset

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
ulimit -n 10000, set number of open files to 10000, default 8192
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

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

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 description in HP-20030317-APIFlags.txt

Network Notes

txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100
1 NIC tied to each TUX thread
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 ver. 6.0.2d (02/14/03)
bcm5700 options tx_pkt_desc_cnt=45,45,45,45,45 rx_std_desc_cnt=45,45,45,45,45

Client Notes

net.ipv4.ip_local_range=1024 65535

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See Above
Dynamic API: HP-20030303-RHCA.tar.gz
Kernel config: HP-20030428-DL360G3.config.txt

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	5751	100.0%	17462.6	329.1	3.04	362.1
2	5751	100.0%	16291.2	353.1	2.83	337.7
3	5741	99.8%	16193.2	355.3	2.82	335.7

Wed Apr 13 16:55:27 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 16-Oct-2003