SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard:	hp server rp8400
Zeus Technology Limited:	Zeus 3.4r3 64bit

SPECweb99 = 9186

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	9186
2	9197
3	9170
Median	9186

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Sep-2001
HTTP Software	Oct-2001
Operating System	Dec-2001
Supplemental System	Aug-2001

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard

Model hp server rp8400

Processor PA-8700 750MHz

# Processors 8 cores, 8 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 768KBI+1536KBD on chip

Secondary Cache None

Other Cache None

Memory 64 GB

Disk Subsystem 15x18GB 15Krpm, 1x18GB 10Krpm

Disk Controllers 1xHP A5158A FC Card

Other Hardware HP VA7100 Disk Array

Software

Operating System HP-UX 11i (64-bit) + patches

File System HFS - Largefiles

Other Software HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Limited

HTTP Software Zeus 3.4r3 64bit

API ISAPI

Server Cache See Zeus parameters

Log Mode Binary Log Format

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Sep-2001
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 8

Network Controllers HP A4926A PCI Gigabit Ethernet

# 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 90

Model HP 9000/A180C

Processor 180MHz PA-7300LC

# of Processors 1

Memory 128MByte

Network Controller HP A5230A, PCI 100BaseT

Operating System HPUX 11.0 ACE

Compiler B3901BA B.11.11.02 HP C/ANSI C

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 9200

Fileset Size (MB) 29558.16

Notes

SUT Notes

Each Zeus instance bound to processor corresponding to its NIC
Bound Zeus cgi process to CPU that services the fewest clients
Processor binding performed by: mpsched -c <cpu> -p <pid>

Operating System Notes

HP-UX Internet Operating Environment with following patches:
PHCO_23094 - libc cumulative header file patch
PHCO_23772 - libc cumulative patch
PHNE_24506 - cumulative ARPA transport patch
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
dbc_max_pct=80 Max buffer cache size as percent of RAM (50)
dbc_min_pct=80 Min buffer cache size as percent of RAM (5)
maxfiles=60000 Soft file limit per process (60)
maxfiles_lim=60000 Hard file limit per process (1024)
maxssiz_64bit=0x40000000 Max stack size for 64-bit procs (0x00800000)
maxswapchunks=16384 Max number of swap chunks (256)
maxuprc=512 Max number of user processes (75)
maxusers=512 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)
nfile=1000000 Max number of open files (790)
ninode=1000000 Max number of inodes (444)
nkthread=8000 Max number of kernel threads (499)
nproc=512 Max number of processes (276)
tcphashsz=16384 Relative scaling factor for TCP & IP int. tables (2048)
semmnu=256 Number of semaphore undo structures (10)
vps_ceiling=4096 Max system selected page size [KB] (16)
vps_pagesize=64 Default user page size [KB] (4)
Filesystem for logs created with following options:
behind - Queue writes for flusing when page is full
largefiles - Enable creation of files greater than 2 gigabytes in size
64KB block size (def. 8KB) and 8KB fragments (def. 1KB)

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus Global Parameters:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 59990
tuning!cache_flush_interval 86400
tuning!cache_large_file 50000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 0
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 1024
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 57000
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!timeout 600
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!modules!isapi!enabled yes
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no

HTTP API Notes

Zeus ISAPI interface used
Zeus PEPP Toolkit (0.6) used for SPECweb99 dynamic content
./Configure --sendfile=yes --checkconfig=yes --locking=semop

Network Notes

8 HP Procurve 1600M Switches
Network Tunable Parameters:
tcp_xmit_hiwater_def=2000000 Max unsent data triggers flow control(32768)
tcp_conn_request_max=1024 Max outstanding connection reqs (20)
tcp_conn_strategy=1 Selects TCP connection strategy (0)
Gigabit Tunable Parameters:
send_max_bufs=32 Number of send buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (16)
recv_max_bufs=12 Number of send buffers consumed to trigger interrupt (1)
recv_coal_ticks=10000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (0)
send_coal_ticks=1000 Number of ticks to wait to trigger interrupt (1000)

Client Notes

7 networks with 12 clients each, set load generator speed to 2
1 network with 6 clients, set load generator speed to 1
HP-UX Tunable Parameters:
max_thread_proc=800 Number of threads per process (64)
maxusers=256 Value of MAXUSERS macro (32)

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: HP-20010917.txt
Dynamic API: HP-20010917-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	9186	99.8%	25804.1	357.4	2.80	335.1
2	9197	100.0%	26023.0	354.3	2.83	337.8
3	9170	99.7%	25769.5	357.8	2.80	334.7

Wed Apr 13 16:55:12 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 02-Oct-2001