SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	HP Integrity rx4640-8
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 4.2r4

SPECweb99 = 15600

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	15600
2	15600
3	15600
Median	15600

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	May-2004
HTTP Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Sep-2003
Supplemental System	Jul-2004

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model HP Integrity rx4640-8

Processor 1.1 GHz Itanium 2 (2 chips/HP mx2 dual processor module)

# Processors 8 cores, 8 chips, 1 core/chip, 2 chips/mx2 module

Primary Cache 16KBI + 16KBD per core

Secondary Cache 256KB unified per core

Other Cache 4MB per core (L3); 32MB unified per module (L4)

Memory 64GB (32x2GB)

Disk Subsystem 5x73GB (15K rpm)

Disk Controllers 2 SCSI C1010 Fast Wide LVD (internal)

Other Hardware 4 x HP Procurve 2724 Switch; HP DS2100

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i v2

File System See Notes

Other Software B3901BA HP C/ANSI C

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTP Software Zeus 4.2r4

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Apr-2004
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers HP A7012A dual-port

# of Nets 8

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 24

Model HP Integrity rx2600

Processor Intel Itanium2 900MHz

# of Processors 2

Memory 4GB

Network Controller HP A6825A

Operating System HPUX 11i v1.6

Compiler B3901BA HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 15600

Fileset Size (MB) 50039.52

Notes

SUT Notes

All filesystems are HFS
1 73GB disk split into two logical volumes with LVM for OS
1 73GB disk with 64KB block size (def. 8KB) and 8KB fragments (def. 1KB)
mounted with largefiles, behind used for NSA logs
1 73GB disk with 64KB block size (def. 8KB) and 8KB fragments (def. 1KB)
mounted with largefiles, behind used for web logs
1 73GB disk mounted read-only used for the file_set
1 73GB disk used for /spec
Bound each Zeus and NSA instance to processor corresponding to its NIC
Bound cgi instance to the processor corresponding to NIC with lighter load (See Client Notes)
Processor binding is performed by "mpsched -c cpu# -p pid"
Set page size attribute for zeus.web and zeus.cgi binaries
chatr +pd 64k +pi 64k zeus.cgi
chatr +pd 64M +pi 64M zeus.web

Operating System Notes

Additional Software:
Transport Optional Upgrade Release 2.0 (TOUR 2.0) for 11i v2
HP Network Server Accelerator (NSA HTTP) B.11.23.01.02
HP-UX Patches:
PHNE_30279 IETHER 1000Base-SX/T patch
PHNE_30773 LAN product cumulative patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=78 Max Buffer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=70 Min bufer Cache Size as Percent of RAM (5)
fs_async=1 Select asynchronous writes (0)
maxfiles=60000 Soft File Limit per Process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard File Limit per Process (1024)
create_fastlinks=1 Enables storage of symbolic links in HFS inode structures (Boolean) (0)
nfile=600000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=600000 Max number of inodes (444)
scsi_max_qdepth=64 Maximum number of SCSI Commands that can be Queued (8)
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)

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 58000
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!cache_large_file 60000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 1000
tuning!cache_stat_expire 86400
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 2048
tuning!max_connections 3500
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 56000
tuning!sendfile_minsize 1000
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!timeout 6000
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!use_select yes
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
Zeus runningsite configuration:
modules!cgi!enabled yes
modules!isapi!enabled yes

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interfacce used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit (0.8) used for SPECweb99 dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop --ssl=no --64bit=yes
compiled with HP C/ANSI C developer's Bundle (B3901BA)
CFLAGS=+z +Ofaster +DD64 +DSitanium2 -Ae -DUSE_SENDFILE_HP -DCHECK_CONFIG

Network Notes

Networking Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=1000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=4096 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
Gigabit Tunable Parameters:
itrmode=4000 Set interrupt throttle mode [-1 - 65535] (-1)
HP Network Server Accelerator (NSA HTTP) Tunables:
CacheMaxPct=4 NSA Cache Maximum Percentage of RAM (50)
CacheTimeout=60000 NSA cache reuse timeout in seconds (600)
LogFile=/nsa_logs/nsahttp_log Log file location (/var/nsa/nsahttp_log)
LogFormat=binary NSA log format (ASCII)
MaxURIDataLen=59 NSA Max size URI data (web page) to cache in KB (1024)

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
Use client speed setting in rc file to force lighter load on one NIC
i.e. CLIENTS=s1[9] s2[9] s3[9] s4[10] s5[10] s6[10]
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
ncallout=5000 Increase number of pending timeouts
nkthread=8000 Maximum number of system-wide threads (499)
ninode=5000 Maximum number of inodes (444)
nfile=4096 Maximum number of open files (790)

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20040510.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20020723-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	15600	100.0%	43755.2	354.1	2.80	338.5
2	15600	100.0%	44179.1	350.7	2.83	341.8
3	15600	100.0%	43832.6	353.5	2.81	339.1

Tue May 25 15:50:38 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 25-May-2004