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Sun Microsystems, Sun Fire X4275 and Sun Java System Messaging Server 6 JES4 SPECmail2009 sessions/hour = 38,348
SPEC license # 6 Tested by:
Sun Microsystems
Test date:
Jun-2009
Hardware Avail:
May-2009
Software Avail:
Sep-2006

38,348 SPECmail2009 sessions per hour is equivalent to 8,000 SPECmail_Ent2009 users.

Detail Summary | General Notes
System configurations: IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server | Load Generator | Benchmark Manager+Load Generator+SMTP Sink | Configuration diagram


Summary Results
Function Response
time limit
(seconds)
Required
Percentage
Compliant
Percentage Compliant
100%
SMTP Connect 5 >95% 100.00%
SMTP Data 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP APPEND 5 >95% 99.99%
IMAP Connect 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP EXPUNGE 5 >95% 99.98%
IMAP FETCH_NUM_BODYALL 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP FETCH_RANGE_ENVELOPE_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_INTERNALDATE_RFC822SIZE_UID 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP LIST 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP LSUB_NULL_WILDCARD 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP SELECT_FOLDER 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP SELECT_INBOX 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_DELETED 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP UID_FETCH_RANGE_UID_BODYPEEK_HEADERFIELDS_FLAGS_RFC822SIZE 5 >95% 100.00%
IMAP UID_STORE_NUM_SET_FLAGS_SEEN 5 >95% 100.00%
Error Rate NA <1% 0.00%

IMAP+SMTP+LDAP Server (1 system)
Software
IMAP, SMTP and LDAP Software: Sun Java System Messaging Server 6 JES4 Operating System: Solaris 10 X86
Availability: Jan-2006 File System: ufs and zfs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: Intel Xeon X5570
Model Name: Sun Fire X4275 Intel Xeon X5570 CPU MHz: 2933
Availability: May-2009 CPUs Enabled: 2(4 cores each,2 HW threads on each core)
Disk Subsystem: 12x300GB SAS 10Krpm Internal disks, 2xXTA7110 (16x143GB, 10Krpm SAS disks) Sun Unified Storage NAS systems Primary Cache: 32KB(I) + 32KB(D) on chip, per core
Memory (MB): 73720 Secondary Cache: 256KB(I)+256KB(D) on chip, per core
Network: 1 Sun[TM] Gigaswift Ethernet onboard Controller 1Gb/s for the private network switch connection to the clients E2900 and X4600, 2xNorthstar UTP Dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs for total 4Gb/s network connection to the 2xX7110 NAS Other Cache: 8MB(I)+8MB(D) on chip per chip
# of Systems: 1 Other: Hyper-threading enabled
Notes / Tuning Information
This Mailserver host is the single node LDAP+IMAP+SMTP server
Notes/Tuning Information
*LDAP+IMAP+SMTP Tuning only, not any installation steps
**Dispatcher Tunings
MIN_PROCS=100
MAX_PROCS=150
MIN_CONNS=30
MAX_CONNS=50
MAX_HANDSOFFS=100
**Job Controller Tuning
IMS_POOL job_limit=12
MAX_MESSAGES=1000000
service.imap.numprocesses=6
store.dbcachesize=640000000
store.dbtmpdir=/tmp/mboxlist
nsslapd-dbcachesize=3221225472
service.authcachesize=500000
service.authcachettl=7200
ALLOW_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=1500
ALLOW_TRANSACTIONS_PER_SESSION=1500
REJECT_RECIPIENTS_PER_TRANSACTION=2500

Load Generator (1 system)
Software
JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04) ((no JIT)) Operating System: Solaris 10
Availability: Sep-2006 File System: ufs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: UltraSPARC IV+
Model Name: Sun Fire E2900 US IV+ CPU MHz: 1950
Availability: Jul-2006 CPUs Enabled: 11(2 cores each)
Disk Subsystem: 2 x 73GB 7.2Krpm SATA Internal disks Primary Cache: 16KBI + 16KBD on chip
Memory (MB): 90112 Secondary Cache: 16MB external cache
Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface Other Cache: 32MB shared External cache
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information
X4600 system is the benchmark manager, load generator and the SMTP Sink, E2900 system is the load generators. Both X4600 and E2900 clients are communicationg with the X4275 SUT via a private net Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Benchmark Manager+Load Generator+SMTP Sink (1 system)
Software
JVM: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04) ((no JIT)) Operating System: Solaris 10 X86
Availability: Sep-2006 File System: ufs
Hardware
Vendor: Sun Microsystems CPU: AMD Opteron 8356
Model Name: Sun Fire X4600 AMD Opteron 8356 CPU MHz: 2300
Availability: Dec-2006 CPUs Enabled: 8(2 cores each)
Disk Subsystem: 3 x 73GB 10Krpm SAS Internal disks Primary Cache: 64KBI + 64KBD on chip, per core
Memory (MB): 64960 Secondary Cache: 512KB(I)+512KB(D) on chip, per core
Network: Onboard 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Interface Other Cache: 2MB(I)+2MB(D) on chip per chip
# of Systems: 1 Other: N/A
Notes / Tuning Information

   

General Notes / Tuning Information
*Following are the OS Tunings only for all the Servers and Clients, not any installtion steps
**set rlim_fd_max=1048576: Hard limit on the open file descripters for a single process
**set autoup=36000000: Controls the frequency in seconds of entire physical memory to be scanned for dirty pages
**set tune_t_fsflushr=600: Reduces fsflush daemon overhead
**set rlim_fd_cur=1048576: Defines a "soft" limit on file descriptors that a single process can have open
*Following are the NETWORK Configurations and Tunings
**All the network connections and the routing are resolved using UNIX hosts file
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 400000
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 400000
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 16384
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 16384
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_max_buf 4194304
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_cwnd_max 2097152
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 8192
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval 60000
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_naglim_def 1
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_mss_min 108
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast 0
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_directed_broacasts 0
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_strict_dst_multihoming 1
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 0
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_src_routed 0
**/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000
**All total 8 Java load generator instances were configured on the X4600
***and E2900 Clients at the 1200-1207 ports for all IMAP users,
***1 Java load generator instance was configured on the 1100 port for the
***SMTP sink. Following Java options were used for all the load generators:
***java -d64 -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:+AggressiveHeap
**The Benchmark runs through a private network between the Load Generators
***and the SUT via a Gigabit Ethernet Switch
***The Mailserver is configured with 2xXTA7110 Sun's
***Unified Storage NAS systems, 14x143GB disks on each system
***are configured as one RAID1 volume with 2 NFS File systems LUNs
***on each, accessed via the SUT using NFSV4 protocol
***mounted on the mailstore volumes, built with Sun's ZFS and ZPOOL
***Mailstore nfs mount options on SUT are nointr,hard,xattr
***Availability of the mailstores maximizes with 8GB battery
***backed up cache on each storage system.
***Other 2x143GB disks on each XTA7110 are used for the NAS storage system Admin and house keepings.
***Total 4Gb/s Network connection between the SUT and 2xXTA7110 NAS storage
***using total 4 Northstar dual 1GB/s ports.
***12x300GB internal SAS disks on the SUT are configured as 4 ZPOOLs mapped to 4 ZFS
***file system volumes for LDAP, log, store-metadata and queue
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Sun Fire X4275
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Sun Java[TM] System Messaging Server 6 JES4
Errors
Warnings

QoS Warnings:

These warnings do not invalidate the result but are included as additional information.

  • IMAP UID_COPY_RANGE_FOLDER: 345 out of 2,455 transactions (14.05%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
  • IMAP UID_COPY_SERIES_FOLDER: 78 out of 361 transactions (21.61%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.
  • IMAP UID_FETCH_RANGE_UID_BODYPEEK_RFC822SIZE: 15 out of 178 transactions (8.43%) failed the 5 second response time requirement.


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First published at SPEC.org on 04-Jul-2009

Benchmark run on Sun Jun 28 17:38:32 EDT 2009 by SPECmail2009 v0.12 (200901292126)
Report generated on Sat Jul 04 19:06:36 EDT 2009 by SPECmail2009 v1.0.1 (200906230800)