SPECweb99 Result

Fujitsu Siemens Computers:	PRIMEPOWER 900
Zeus Technology:	Zeus WebServer 4.2r2

SPECweb99 = 15114

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	15115
2	15078
3	15114
Median	15114

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jun-2003
HTTP Software	Mar-2003
Operating System	Feb-2003
Supplemental System	--

Hardware

Vendor Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Model PRIMEPOWER 900

Processor 1350 MHz SPARC64

# Processors 10 cores, 10 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 128KBI+128KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 2MB(I+D) on chip

Other Cache None

Memory 64GB

Disk Subsystem 12 x 72 GB

Disk Controllers Dual Channel Ultra SCSI

Other Hardware Switches: See notes

Software

Operating System Solaris 8 2/02

File System VxFS (for non-root disks)

Other Software NCA

HTTP Software

Vendor Zeus Technology

HTTP Software Zeus WebServer 4.2r2

API Zeus PEPP 0.6 ISAPI

Server Cache SNCA

Log Mode SNCA Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	May-2003
Tested By	Fujitsu Siemens
SPEC License	22

Network

# of Controllers 16

Network Controllers Gigabit Ethernet X1141A-U

# of Nets 16

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/sec

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 82

Model 9xPRIMEPOWER 650 (PW) + 10xPRIMERGY 470 (PY)

Processor 810MHz SPARC64 (PW) / 400MHz Pentium II (PY)

# of Processors 6 (PW) / 2 (PY)

Memory 4 GB (PW) / 256 MB (PY)

Network Controller FastEthernet X1093A-U (PW) / Intel PRO1000 (PY)

Operating System Solaris 8 2/02 (PW) / Solaris 7 (PY)

Compiler GCC 2.95.2 (PW and PY)

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 15140

Fileset Size (MB) 48565.76

Notes

Operating System Notes

Operating System settings in /etc/system
__General settings:
__set sq_max_size=0 (unlimited messages allowed on each IP queue)
__set segmap_percent=90 (def: 12, Size of kernel segmap segment)
__set rlim_fd_max=450000 (def: 1024 file descriptors)
__set rlim_fd_cur=450000 (def: max (256,rlim_fd_max))
__set autoup=60 (def: 30, seconds before dirty page buffers are sync'd)
__set maxphys=65536 (def: 131072, maximal size of physical I/O requests)
__set maxpgio=128 (def: 40, maximal number of page I/O requests that can be queued)
__Specific modules:
__set ge:ge_intr_mode=1 (bypass normal communication layer queuing)
__set ge:ge_nos_tmds = 8192 (def: 512, transmit descriptors)
__set ge:ge_tx_fastdvma_min = 95 (def: 1024, min packet size to use fast dvm a interface)
__set ge:ge_tx_bcopy_max = 96 (def: 256, Maximum packet size to use copy of buffer)
__set ge:ge_nos_txdvma = 8192 (def: 512, transmit descriptors)
__set ge:ge_pci_intr_blank_time=24 (def: 6, Number of clock ticks to wait since last receive interrupt asserted)
__set pcipsy:pci_stream_buf_enable = 0 (disable PCI cache streaming)
__set nca:nca_conn_req_max_q=10240 (def: 256, Max number of TCP conns to listen to)
__set nca:nca_conn_req_max_q0=10240 (def: 1024, Max number of 3 way handshakes open)
__set nca:nca_ppmax=7500000 (def: 25% of physical memory, Max amount of physical memory, in pages. used by NCA)
__set nca:nca_vpmax=7500000 (def: 25% of virtual memory, Max amount of virtual memory, in pages, used by NCA)
__set nca:nca_conn_hash_size=393209 (def: 383, hash table size)
__set nca:ncaurihash_sz = 289669 (def: 8053, URI hash table size)
__set nca:ncavnodehash_sz = 289669 (def: 12281, Controls the vnode hash table size in the NCA module)
__set nca:ncappthresh = 128 (def: 4, threshold in pages to control when to stop using the default kernel memory allocator)
__set vxio:vol_maxio=128
__
Settings in NCA control files (/etc/nca)
__nca.if: ge0 ge1 ge2 ge3 ge4 ge5 ge6 ge7 ge8 ge9 ge10 ge11 ge12 ge13 ge14 ge15 hme1
__ncalogd.conf: status=enabled, logd_file_size=2000000000
__ncalogd.conf: logd/path_name=/logs/log0 ... /logs/log15
__
Dynamic Settings after reboot
__ndd set /dev/nca nca_use_segmap 1 (def: 0, controls whether NCA uses the kernel segmap to share physical pages for Unix files)
__
Disk usage:
__1 disk (internal): OS, Paging, Zeus, and /export/home
__10 disks (striped): /logs (Zeus Webserver binary CLF files, NCA log files)
__10 disks (striped): /web99 except file_set (r/w portion of docroot, e.g. post.log)
__10 disks (striped): /web99/file_set (r/o portion of docroot)
__1 disk unused
__File Systems, Striping with Veritas Volume Manager
__Mount /web99/file_set with noatime option
Tuning disclosure: Fujitsu-Siemens-20011126.txt

HTTP Software Notes

Zeus 4.2r2 global.cfg performance parameters
__For explanation and default values,
__refer to: http://support.zeus.com/faq/entries/tuning.html
__
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!accelerator!nca!enabled yes
tuning!num_children 20
tuning!num_cgid 20
tuning!cache_files 419999
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!cache_small_file 4096
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!sendfile yes
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!so_rbuff_size 0
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 1048576
tuning!sendfile_reservefd 299993
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!softservers no
__
Other Zeus 4.2r2 global.cfg parameters
__
gid root
uid root
controlport 9080
controlallow 127.0.0.1
__
Other Zeus 4.2r2 virtual_server performance parameters
__(only those relevant for performance)
__in %zeushome%/web-4.2r2/runningsites/websvr:
__dnslookup no
__docroot /web99
__modules!cgi!enabled yes
__modules!isapi!enabled yes
__modules!log!enabled no

HTTP API Notes

Zeus API toolkit 0.6 used for dynamic content
Archived in Fujitsu-Siemens-20011126-API.tar.gz
PW code compiled with Sun Studio 7
./Configure --sendfile=no --locking=semop
Compilation options:
-I$INCLUDES -xarch=v8plus -Kpic -dalign -fns -fsimple=2 -ftrap=%none -xlibmil -xO5

Client Notes

Network Tuning parameters (/usr/bin/ndd):
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 2048 (def: 32768)
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000 (def: 240000 ms = 4 mins.)
Client code generated with "Configure OPTIMIZE="-O2 -Wall"; export OPTIMIZE
and with ./configure --enable-posix-threads --enable-gethostbyname_r --enable-pthread_scope_system
--enable-rlimit --enable-nanosleep --enable-safe-usleep=no
Clients and Server connected via a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch (PW clients to server)
plus 2 BayStack 450-24T switches (PY clients to server)
19 physical clients (9xPW plus 10xPY), 82 virtual clients (one per Ethernet line)
Server system board 0, slot 0 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 1, plus 2 from PW client 9
Server system board 0, slot 1 (33 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 1
Server system board 0, slot 2 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 2, plus 2 from PW client 6
Server system board 0, slot 5 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 2, plus 1 from PW client 6
Server PCI box 0, slot 0 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 3, plus 2 from PW client 9
Server PCI box 0, slot 1 (33 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 3
Server PCI box 0, slot 3 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 4, plus 2 from PW client 8
Server PCI box 0, slot 7 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 4, plus 1 from PW client 8
Server system board 1, slot 0 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 5, plus 2 from PW client 9
Server system board 1, slot 1 (33 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 5
Server system board 1, slot 2 (66 MHz) connected to 5 PY clients
Server system board 1, slot 5 (66 MHz) connected to 5 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 6
Server PCI box 1, slot 0 (66 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 7, plus 2 from PW client 9
Server PCI box 1, slot 1 (33 MHz) connected to 4 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 7
Server PCI box 1, slot 3 (66 MHz) connected to 5 PY clients
Server PCI box 1, slot 7 (66 MHz) connected to 5 quad Ethernet lines from PW client 8
Used prime client separate from the load generators:
__PRIMERGY 470, 2 x 400 MHz Pentium II, Solaris 7

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	15115	99.8%	41981.6	360.3	2.77	332.6
2	15078	99.6%	41820.3	361.6	2.76	331.2
3	15114	99.8%	41939.0	360.6	2.77	332.2

Thu Apr 14 11:43:56 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 27-May-2003