SPECweb96 Result

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

SPECweb96 = 5278

Performance

Throughput (ops/sec)	Response (msec)
529	4.6
1058	4.9
1587	5.3
2117	5.8
2645	6.5
3175	7.3
3703	8.1
4228	9.6
4761	11.7
5278	34.5

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 4

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 Drive

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 12

# of Processes Each 16

Model Hewlett-Packard Kayak XU

Processor Pentium II 300MHz

# of Processors 2

Memory 64MB

Network Controller Fore ForeRunner 200E ATM

Operating System Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0

Benchmark Configuration

Maximum Requested Load 5285

Maximum Fileset Size (MB) 1591

Notes

Network Notes

Each Fore ASX-200BX switch has 6 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=0x4da30 ---Increases the TCB timewait table to 318000 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 and 1, NIC 2 to CPU 2 and 3.

Test Run Details

Detailed Statistics
Load	Throughput	Class	Target Mix	Actual Mix	Error Percent	Mean Response	Std Dev Response
528	529	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.18	13.99
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	3.68	14.48
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	8.53	8.62
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	44.50	45.00
1057	1058	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.44	12.50
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	3.92	7.08
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	9.00	20.95
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	45.62	46.23
1585	1587	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	3.79	6.87
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	4.37	17.51
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	9.50	20.26
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	47.06	47.79
2114	2117	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	4.33	17.40
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	4.83	17.01
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	10.11	16.83
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	49.09	50.04
2642	2645	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	4.99	18.62
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	5.44	15.97
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	11.11	22.53
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	51.87	52.88
3171	3175	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	5.68	15.52
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	6.15	15.54
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	12.09	19.86
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	55.09	56.27
3699	3703	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	6.41	12.53
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	6.88	15.25
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	13.24	18.05
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	58.71	59.91
4228	4228	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	7.79	17.34
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	8.20	14.03
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	15.33	19.73
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	64.59	67.75
4756	4761	0	35.0%	35.0%	0.00%	9.59	13.32
		1	50.0%	50.0%	0.00%	10.04	15.61
		2	14.0%	14.0%	0.00%	18.24	25.27
		3	1.0%	1.0%	0.00%	72.36	73.94
5285	5278		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 3:35:27 1998

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