SPECweb99_SSL Result

IBM:	IBM eServer p5 570 (1900 MHz, 4 CPU, Linux)
Zeus Technology Ltd.:	Zeus 4.2r3(32bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 4970

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	4970
2	4970
3	4970
Median	4970

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Aug-2004
HTTPS Software	Jul-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Aug-2004

Hardware

Vendor IBM

Model IBM eServer p5 570 (1900 MHz, 4 CPU, Linux)

Processor 1900 MHz POWER5

# Processors 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip (SMT on)

Primary Cache 64KBI+32KBD (on chip)/core

Secondary Cache 1920KB unified (on chip)/chip

Other Cache 36MB unified (off-chip)/DCM, 2 DCMs/SUT

Memory 32 GB (16 x 2GB)

Disk Subsystem 2x36GB (15 KRPM) SCSI

Disk Controllers PCI-X Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller

Other Hardware See SUT notes

Software

Operating System SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWER

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Ltd.

HTTPS Software Zeus 4.2r3(32bit)

API ISAPI

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

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

Network

# of Controllers 8

Network Controllers 8 IBM 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI-X Adapter

# of Nets 8

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 8

Model IBM eServer xSeries 335

Processor 2000 MHz Xeon

# of Processors 2

Memory 1GB

Network Controller 1 x BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet

Operating System RedHat 9.0

Compiler gcc 3.2.2

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 4970

Fileset Size (MB) 16025.92

Notes

SUT Notes

1 SCSI 15K 36GB SCSI disk for OS
1 SCSI 15K 36GB SCSI disk for logs and fileset
2 x External IO Drawer 7311-D20 used for 6 Gigabit adapters (3 adapters per drawer)
2 Gigabit adapters installed in Internal CEC
2 IBM Crypto 2058 accelerator cards (1 card per drawer)
1 x Cisco 3750-T24 switch

Operating System Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 20000 via ifconfig, default 100
Each NIC's ITR set to 1800 via insmod InterruptThrottleRate=1800, default=dynamic
log, & fileset partitions mounted with 'noatime,nodiratime,nobh', no inode access time updating, no attach-
-buffer_head to file pagecache
One NIC irq bound per logical CPU
One Zeus webserver process bound per logical CPU via taskset
- 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 = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
- net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
- 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.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
- net.core.somaxconn=20480, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
- net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, defaul 300
IBM Crypto 2058 driver and openCryptoki software come with SuSe SLES 9 distribution
DCM: Acronym for "Dual-Chip Module" (one dual-core processor chip + one L3-cache chip)
SMT: Acronym for "Simultaneous Multi-Threading". A processor technology that allows the simultaneous execution of -
- multiple thread contexts within a single processor core. (Enabled by default)

HTTPS Software Notes

Starts 4 instances of Zeus sharing a common docroot
Zeus 4.2r3 global.cfg:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_files 35023
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_small_file 102400
tuning!cache_stat_expire 180000
tuning!cache_flush_interval 180000
tuning!cache_max_bytes 0
tuning!num_children 2
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_keepalive yes
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 5003
tuning!keepalive_timeout 1200
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!listen_queue_size 10240
tuning!cbuff_size 1048576
tuning!multiple_accept yes
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!so_rbuff_size 32768
tuning!softservers no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!use_poll no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!modules!cgi!cbuff_size 921632
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!maxaccept 256
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
tuning!modules!ssld!library libZica.so
tuning!modules!ssld!ica_lib /usr/lib/pkcs11/PKCS11_API.so
tuning!modules!ssld!nworkers 256
tuning!modules!ssld!queuelen 10240
tuning!modules!ssld!failurecount 0 (the number of successive zeus.ssld failures the web server-
-will tolerate before fall back to software permanently, set to 0 so the web server will never-
-fall back to software permanently, and always try to contact zeus.ssld first. default 5)

HTTP API Notes

Zeus PEPP configured with command: ./Configure --ssl=yes
Zeus PEPP compiled with default gcc (v3.3.3)

Client Notes

Client binary from SPEC SPECweb99_SSL package
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 65535

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above
Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
Server kernel config: Standard default SuSe Linux Ent. Server 9 config config-2.6.5-7.97-pseries64

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	4970	100.0%	13770.0	360.9	2.77	332.0
2	4970	100.0%	13726.7	362.0	2.76	331.0
3	4970	100.0%	13732.1	361.9	2.76	331.0

Wed Oct 13 09:26:00 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 13-Oct-2004