SPECweb99_SSL Result

IBM:	BladeCenter Telco HS20
Zeus:	Zeus V4.2r4

SPECweb99_SSL = 1400

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	1400
2	1400
3	1399
Median	1400

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jul-2004
HTTPS Software	Jul-2003
Operating System	Dec-2003
Supplemental System	May-2002

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model BladeCenter Telco HS20

Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB

Other Cache 1MB L3

Memory 8GB

Disk Subsystem 1 40GB IDE Drive internal
2 73GB U320 15K RPM SCSI Drives

Disk Controllers Onboard IDE and Onboard LSI 53C1030 SCSI

Other Hardware Nortel Networks GbE Switch
IBM SCSI Storage Expansion Unit

Software

Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus

HTTPS Software Zeus V4.2r4

API Zeus PEPP 0.8 ISAPI used for Dynamic content

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus Binary Log File

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Feb-2004
Tested By	IBM
SPEC License	11

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Integrated Gigabit Ethernet

# of Nets 2

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 6

Model IBM eServer xSeries 330

Processor 1133Mhz Pentium III

# of Processors 1

Memory 256MB

Network Controller IBM Netfinity Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.3

Compiler gcc version 2.96

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 1400

Fileset Size (MB) 4601.84

Notes

SUT Notes

1 IDE disk for OS and 2 disks configured with software RAID0 for fileset and logs
ETH0 Network adapter interrupts bound to physical processor 0
ETH1 Network adapter interrupts bound to physical processor 1

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
- net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, default 0
- net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
- net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 255000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240
- net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
- net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
- net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
- net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
Kernel is standard default Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0(2.4.21-elsmp)

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
- tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
- tuning!softservers no
- tuning!cbuff_size 65536
- tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
- tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 4051
- tuning!sendfile_minsize 1
- tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
- tuning!keepalive_timeout 20
- tuning!keepalive_max 1500
- tuning!maxaccept 64
- tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
- tuning!bind_any no
- tuning!unique_bind yes
- modules!cgi!enabled yes
- modules!isapi!enabled yes
See IBM-Zeus-tuning-20021224.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters
ISAPI Source code is available in the SPECweb99_SSL support docs as HP-20020724-API.tar.gz
Virtual Server configuration information is contained in IBM-20040315-Zeus-vs.cfg

Client Notes

Client code generated with ./configure --enable-posix-threads
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 65535

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	1400	100.0%	3858.3	363.1	2.76	331.4
2	1400	100.0%	3860.4	363.0	2.76	331.3
3	1399	99.9%	3861.3	362.8	2.76	331.6

Fri Aug 6 12:30:45 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 06-Aug-2004