SPEC virt_sc ® 2013 Patches

Patch P1a replaces Patch P1. It addresses an issue encountered when applying Patch P1, which used the Linux utility xdelta, and is no longer compatible with newer versions of the utility. Any submissions using TLSv1, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2 encryptions for the webserver workload must use this patch.

To apply this patch, download the patch archive on every tile's client into its SPECweb2005 directory (for example, /opt/SPECweb2005) then:

cd /opt/SPECweb2005
tar -xzvf SPECvirt_sc2013V1.1_p1a.tgz

This patch fixes the Smarty_Compiler.class.php file used by the SPECweb2005 workload. It replaces functions that have been obsoleted in PHP versions 5.5 and newer which could cause the workload to fail. If you are using older versions of PHP, you don't need to apply this patch.

To apply this patch, download the patch archive on every tile's client into its SPECweb2005 directory (for example, /opt/SPECweb2005) then:

cd /opt/SPECweb2005
tar -xzvf SPECvirt_scV1.1_p2.tgz

Finally, redeploy the updated Smarty code to your web server installation according to the instructions in the SPEC VIRT_SC 2013 User's Guide, section 2.3 Webserver VM workload setup", step 6.

This patch fixes an error that caused the validator to mark a test run as non-compliant when it uses any of the TLS protocols with webserver. If you use SSLv3, you don't need to apply this patch.

To apply this patch, download the patch archive on every tile's client into its SPECweb2005 directory (for example, /opt/SPECweb2005) then:

cd /opt/SPECweb2005
tar -xzvf SPECvirt_sc2013V1.1_p1.tgz
./SPECvirt_scV1.1_p1_update.sh
            
Be sure to apply the patch to each tile's client. You either can run the patch script on the clients or use a secure copy command to put the patched .jar and .class files on the other clients.