SPECweb96 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	NetServer LH 4
Hewlett-Packard/Microsoft:	IIS 4.0 and NetServer Web Cache v1.0

SPECweb96 = 3439

Performance

Throughput (ops/sec)	Response (msec)
360	4.5
721	4.8
1082	5.3
1442	5.7
1803	6.3
2163	7.0
2524	7.6
2885	8.4
3245	9.8
3439	26.6

Configuration

Availability Dates
Hardware	Dec-98
HTTP Software	May-99
Operating System	Oct-98

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model NetServer LH 4

Processor Pentium II Xeon 400MHz

# of Processors 2

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 1MB(I+D) off chip

Other Cache None

Memory 2.0 GB

Disk Subsystem 5 9GB 10K RPM Drives

Disk Controllers 2 Ultra2 SCSI

Other Hardware 2 Fore ASX-200BX ATM Switches

Software

Operating System Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 EE SP4

File System Type NTFS

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Hewlett-Packard/Microsoft

HTTP Software IIS 4.0 and NetServer Web Cache v1.0

# of "threads" 1

Server Cache HP NetServer Web Cache v1.0

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Oct-98
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers FORE ForeRunner HE-622

# of Nets 2

Type of Nets ATM OC3 & OC12

Network Speed 155Mb/s & 622Mb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

Load Generators

# of Load Generators 8

# of Processes Each 12

Model Hewlett-Packard Kayak XU

Processor Pentium II 300MHz

# of Processors 2

Memory 64MB

Network Controller Fore ForeRunner 200E ATM

Operating System Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0

Benchmark Configuration

Maximum Requested Load 3600

Maximum Fileset Size (MB) 1313

Notes

Network Notes

Each Fore ASX-200BX switch has 4 client OC3 connections via Cat5 UTP and 1 server OC12 connection via fiber.
MTU size = 9180 bytes

Other Notes

Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 and HP NetServer Web Cache v1.0
Performance Boost for Foreground Application=NONE ---Do not raise the priority of the foreground application, default is halfway.
Disable IIS Windows NT Challenge/Response ---Disables IIS user information encryption, default is enabled.
Added Registry Entry Tcpip/Parameters/MaxFreeTcbs=0x3a980 ---Increases the TCB timewait table to 240000 entries, default is 2000.
Added Registry Entry Tcpip/Parameters/MaxHashTableSize=0x10000 ---Sets TCB hash table size to 65,536 entries, default is 512.
Added Registry Entry Tcpip/Parameters/TcpTimedWaitDelay=0x3c ---Sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122), default is 240.
Set NDIS/Parameters/ProcessorAffinityMask to 0 ---Forces processor that handled interrupt to also handle that DPC, default is any processor.
One disk for OS, 4 4GB 10KRPM disk for web pages, logs and pagefile
Network interrupts affinitized as follows: NIC 1 to CPU 0, NIC 2 to CPU 1.

Test Run Details

Detailed Statistics
Load	Throughput	Class	Target Mix	Actual Mix	Error Percent	Mean Response	Std Dev Response
360	360	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.02	12.04
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	3.60	19.94
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	8.50	20.55
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	45.11	44.58
720	721	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.32	14.92
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	3.79	7.98
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	8.89	20.65
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	46.02	45.62
1080	1082	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.74	10.42
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	4.35	20.20
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	9.37	9.39
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	47.36	47.15
1440	1442	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	4.22	13.87
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	4.71	12.97
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	9.97	16.52
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	49.02	53.16
1800	1803	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	4.77	14.88
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	5.27	17.89
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	10.70	16.00
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	50.61	50.45
2160	2163	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	5.41	15.58
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	5.86	15.69
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	11.65	24.52
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	53.10	53.00
2520	2524	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	6.02	14.02
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	6.47	15.44
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	12.38	17.47
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	55.48	55.50
2880	2885	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	6.75	13.92
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	7.19	16.30
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	13.41	18.80
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	58.54	63.89
3240	3245	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	8.15	21.50
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	8.53	20.94
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	15.03	25.34
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	61.65	70.99
3600	3439		0.0%	0.0%	0.00%
			0.0%	0.0%	0.00%
			0.0%	0.0%	0.00%
			0.0%	0.0%	0.00%

Tue Dec 8 3:35:21 1998

First published at SPEC.org on 10-Nov-1998