SPECweb2005 Result: IBM: BladeCenter HS21

SPECweb2005 Result
Copyright © 2005 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

IBM: BladeCenter HS21
Accoria Networks: Rock Web Server (x86-64) 1.3.3
Apache Software Foundation: Apache Tomcat 5.5.9

SPECweb2005 = 9407

SPECweb2005_Banking = 14750

SPECweb2005_Ecommerce = 13900

SPECweb2005_Support = 9000

Tested By: IBM

SPEC License #: 11

Test Date: Jun-2006

Performance and Configuration Section
Performance Section
Configuration Section

Details Section
Banking Details
Ecommerce Details
Support Details

Notes Section
Banking Notes
Ecommerce Notes
Support Notes

Errors Section
Banking Errors
Ecommerce Errors
Support Errors

Performance

Banking

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

14750

100.0%

0.0%

136

99.8%

99.9%

0.1%

126

99.8%

99.9%

0.1%

136

Ecommerce

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

13900

98.8%

100.0%

0.0%

98.1%

100.0%

0.0%

95.7%

99.8%

0.2%

Support

Simultaneous
User Sessions

Test
Iteration

Aggregate QOS Compliance

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Validation Errors

9000

99.3%

100.0%

0.0%

99.5%

100.0%

0.0%

99.5%

100.0%

0.0%

Configuration

Availability Dates
SUT Hardware	Jun-2006
Backend Simulator	Nov-2003
Web Server Software	May-2006 (Accoria Rock Web 1.3.3) Dec-2004 (Apache Tomcat 5.5.9)
Operating System	Aug-2004
Other Components	Apr-2006 (JVM)

System Under Test (SUT)

# of SUTs 1

Vendor IBM

Model BladeCenter HS21

Processor 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon 5160

Processor Speed (MHz) 3000

# Processors 4 cores, 2 chips, 2 cores/chip

Primary Cache 32KB(I) + 32KB(D) on chip, per core

Secondary Cache 4096 KB, shared

Other Cache N/A

Memory 16 GB (DDR2 FBD 667MHz)

Disk Subsystem 36GB 15K Ultra320 SAS, 70 x 18GB Fibre Channel

Disk Controllers QLogic Fibre Channel QLA2342

Operating System SUSE SLES 9 SP2 (2.6.5-7.191-smp x86-64)

File System ext2

Other Hardware None

Other Software Sun Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.5.06

SUT Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 PT

# of Networks 4

Network Type Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU Size 1500

Web Server Software
Vendor	Accoria Networks
Name/Version	Rock Web Server (x86-64) 1.3.3
Dynamic Scripts	JSP
Server Cache	N/A
Log Mode	Common Log Format

Script Engine

Vendor Apache Software Foundation

Name/Version Apache Tomcat 5.5.9

Dynamic Scripts JSP

Server Cache N/A

Log Mode Common Log Format

Clients

# of Clients 27

Model eServer xSeries x336

Processor Xeon

Processor Speed (MHz) 2800

# Processors 2

Memory 2 GB

Network Controller IBM NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

Operating System SUSE Linux 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24-smp)

JVM Version Java 2 Runtime Environment, Std Edition (build 1.4.2_01-b06)

JIT Version Java HotSpot Client VM (build 1.4.2_01-b06, mixed mode)

Other Hardware N/A

Other Software N/A

Backend Simulator (BESIM)

# of Simulators 1

Model eServer xSeries x336

Processor Xeon

Processor Speed (MHz) 2800

# of Processors 2

Memory 2 GB

Network Controller IBM NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

Operating System SUSE Linux 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24-smp)

File System ext2

Web Server Apache 2.0.53

Server Scripts SPEC-FCGI v1.0

Other Hardware N/A

Other Software N/A

Banking Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

870569

870565

19,452.4

0.626

34494

account_summary

613747

10,906.0

0.285

27431

check_detail_html

344157

5,296.1

0.248

23756

bill_pay

559621

9,194.4

0.261

25363

add_payee

45212

770.5

0.268

26308

payee_info

32392

917.9

0.449

43743

quick_pay

268413

5,740.4

0.341

33015

billpay_status

89371

1,914.3

0.339

33066

chg_profile

49170

1,373.8

0.441

43130

post_profile

35427

841.4

0.377

36663

req_checks

49016

2,791.5

0.976

87916

post_chk_order

35328

35192

755.4

0.340

33009

req_xfer_form

69925

995.9

0.227

21985

post_fund_xfer

50375

798.2

0.253

24459

logout

248474

12,109.8

0.982

75237

check_image

688346

4,765.3

0.108

10687

Total

4049543

4049403	4	0

78,623.1

0.381

29,972

869258

868308

427

523

18,438.7

0.636

34501

account_summary

612821

611168

396

1257

10,335.3

0.314

27431

check_detail_html

343412

342478

212

722

5,016.1

0.279

23757

bill_pay

558719

557221

384

1114

8,712.5

0.289

25363

add_payee

45153

45026

105

730.3

0.302

26305

payee_info

32350

32263

870.0

0.476

43743

quick_pay

267754

266803

191

760

5,434.5

0.378

33012

billpay_status

89101

88876

165

1,811.5

0.367

33068

chg_profile

49226

49095

106

1,305.3

0.469

43129

post_profile

35456

35333

799.3

0.412

36666

req_checks

49025

48888

102

2,650.0

1.006

87919

post_chk_order

35360

35136

717.9

0.368

33022

req_xfer_form

69754

69555

141

942.7

0.257

21980

post_fund_xfer

50146

50025

753.9

0.279

24452

logout

248094

247439

187

468

11,475.7

1.007

75234

check_image

686841

686504

148

189

4,514.1

0.113

10689

Total

4042470

4034118	2271	5955

74,507.7

0.402

29,978

870686

868559

1808

319

18,886.0

0.635

34488

account_summary

613964

612321

589

1054

10,590.4

0.299

27426

check_detail_html

344083

343065

381

637

5,140.9

0.265

23756

bill_pay

558987

557524

494

969

8,916.6

0.275

25362

add_payee

45157

45040

747.2

0.282

26308

payee_info

32327

32242

889.3

0.465

43739

quick_pay

267941

267103

268

570

5,563.4

0.361

33014

billpay_status

89075

88834

148

1,852.4

0.354

33066

chg_profile

49301

49160

101

1,337.4

0.456

43133

post_profile

35521

35431

819.2

0.391

36669

req_checks

49062

48896

2,712.7

0.991

87912

post_chk_order

35398

35165

734.9

0.354

33012

req_xfer_form

69898

69712

128

966.1

0.241

21976

post_fund_xfer

50229

50094

772.6

0.268

24458

logout

248503

247855

242

406

11,755.0

0.991

75212

check_image

688187

688080

4,625.9

0.110

10687

Total

4048319

4039081	4274	4828

76,309.8

0.392

29,970

Notes for Banking Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Driver used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is supported by Covalent Technologies

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Banking Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client1 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client4 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client5 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client6 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client7 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client8 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client9 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

10 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 1 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client1 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client5 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client6 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client7 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client8 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client9 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

1 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

11 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 2 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client1 - post_chk_order

9 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client4 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client5 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client6 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client7 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client8 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client9 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client10:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client11:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client12:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client13:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client14:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client15:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client16:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client18:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client19:1098 - post_chk_order

2 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client23:1098 - post_chk_order

6 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client24:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client25:1098 - post_chk_order

7 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client26:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client28:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client29:1098 - post_chk_order

3 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client30:1098 - post_chk_order

4 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client31:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client32:1098 - post_chk_order

8 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client33:1098 - post_chk_order

5 Validation Errors for Iteration 3 : client34:1098 - post_chk_order

Ecommerce Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

index

300203

297242

2954

10,785.7

1.806

138172

150777

150742

7,484.4

2.068

190902

browse

269442

265968

3471

11,024.9

1.960

157361

browse_productline

230240

230185

11,614.8

2.115

194008

productdetail

183903

183831

2,548.7

1.176

53299

customize1

386747

386664

16,595.4

1.830

165025

customize2

205381

205341

8,773.7

1.823

164290

customize3

141469

126797

14468

204

6,471.0

2.242

175914

cart

121682

119162

2508

2,302.9

1.259

72784

86637

83966

2608

1,080.0

0.799

47940

shipping

81481

907.5

0.648

42834

billing

77394

77392

656.0

0.672

32597

confirm

58021

58020

473.0

0.565

31349

Total

2293377

2266791	26297	289

80,717.9

1.676

135,357

index

299087

292609

6465

10,544.4

1.861

138144

151174

151058

116

7,365.2

2.089

190903

browse

268380

261444

6934

10,774.8

2.009

157314

browse_productline

229462

229301

161

11,361.5

2.128

194013

productdetail

183214

183122

2,495.1

1.199

53362

customize1

384697

384464

233

16,201.3

1.855

165021

customize2

204472

204363

109

8,572.9

1.847

164286

customize3

140951

120664

19789

498

6,327.6

2.318

175904

cart

120962

116715

4211

2,240.2

1.340

72567

86114

82521

3404

189

1,059.4

0.844

48207

shipping

81104

886.6

0.675

42834

billing

77074

77047

641.2

0.723

32597

confirm

57677

57669

461.5

0.603

31349

Total

2284368

2242081	41549	738

78,931.5

1.715

135,391

index

295499

274578

20603

318

9,770.3

2.042

138163

149188

148484

704

6,815.7

2.163

190904

browse

265094

243226

21480

388

9,980.5

2.182

157322

browse_productline

226554

225470

1064

10,518.1

2.192

194001

productdetail

180991

180447

525

2,309.1

1.319

53312

customize1

380567

379240

1327

15,029.0

1.942

165021

customize2

202417

201656

761

7,958.2

1.936

164288

customize3

139394

104766

32106

2522

5,867.9

2.571

175904

cart

119628

109849

9366

413

2,078.2

1.596

72592

85251

79739

4852

660

981.1

0.993

48088

shipping

80237

80172

822.5

0.774

42834

billing

76184

76006

172

594.3

0.897

32597

confirm

57092

56996

428.3

0.742

31349

Total

2258096

2160629	93121	4346

73,153.3

1.850

135,372

Notes for Ecommerce Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Driver used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is supported by Covalent Technologies

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Ecommerce Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

No Validation Errors Found

Support Run Details

Test results for each iteration

Iteration

Request Type

Total Reqs

QOS

Good	Tolerable	Fail

Weighted
ABR

Avg Resp
Time (sec)

Average
Bytes/Req

home

125558

124275

1236

844.8

0.922

60320

195634

195604

594.6

0.551

27247

catalog

181211

181174

692.3

0.585

34253

product

384124

381382

2650

2,870.8

1.312

67006

fileCatalog

349825

346535

3258

4,126.7

1.640

105761

file

209772

206614

3134

2,902.7

1.821

124058

download

104655

104591

80,034.4

68.563

6856377

Total

1550779

1540175	10383	221

92,066.2

5.781

532,265

home

125517

125430

840.3

0.896

60312

195192

195096

590.3

0.550

27246

catalog

180915

180831

687.7

0.582

34245

product

382460

379994

2234

232

2,845.2

1.312

67018

fileCatalog

348198

345394

2736

4,088.6

1.641

105780

file

209279

206571

2661

2,882.0

1.822

124058

download

104517

104461

80,240.8

69.162

6916228

Total

1546078

1537777	7866	435

92,175.0

5.826

537,084

home

125554

125505

841.4

0.893

60321

194941

194914

589.9

0.544

27239

catalog

180834

180815

688.0

0.578

34245

product

382371

380423

1940

2,846.5

1.305

67008

fileCatalog

348224

345506

2700

4,092.1

1.640

105776

file

209340

206654

2670

2,885.5

1.820

124069

download

104551

104498

80,282.1

69.117

6911776

Total

1545815

1538315	7446	54

92,225.5

5.822

537,022

Notes for Support Workload

SUT Notes

36GB Driver used for OS/SWAP/Logs
Each Fibre Channel enclosure represents a single volume and mount point, IBM EXP400 Enclosures
Files are evenly distributed across the 5 RAID 0 volumes
Boot drive contains soft links to the content directories
IBM BladeCenter H Chassis used for benchmark
IBM BladeCenter Copper Pass-thru Module 73P6100
2 NICs integrated, 2 NICs on expansion card
Integrated disk controller used for OS
2 Fibre Channels used

Operating System Notes

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1, enable ignoring broadcast requests, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1,enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1, enable IP forwarding, 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.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
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 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 12000, default 1024
fs.file-max = 5000000, sets number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 904396
net.core.somaxconn = 10000, size of the listen queue for accepting new TCP connections, default 128
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=400000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_dsack=0, turns DSACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0, turns TCP window scaling suport off, default on
Each NICs txqueuelen set to 60000, default 1000
irqbalancer service was disabled during run
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 70656
No modifications to default kernel configuration

Web Server Software Notes

server_log httpd.log
validate_static -1, disables static file modification validation, default 0
validate_httpmod -1, disables HTTP module modificatoin validation, default 0
header_etag_on 0, disables etag header in HTTP replies, default 1
header_server_on 0, disables server header in HTTP replies, default 1
tcp_send_buf_size 1048576, sets socket send buffer size, default OS default
log_buf_size 1048576, sets access log buffer size, default 65536
direct_io 1, uses direct IO when possible
connection_timeout 200, connection inactivity timeout, default 60
worker 192.0.1.100/80 192.0.1.100/443 192.0.1.100/9090
worker 192.0.2.100/80 192.0.2.100/443
worker 192.0.3.100/80 192.0.3.100/443
worker 192.0.4.100/80 192.0.4.100/443
keepalive_max 100000, max. keepalive requests on a connection, default 100
cache_memory_size 8192, (support), cache manager memory, default 0
cache_file_max_size 4194304 (support),
servlet_session_count 57917, (bank/ecom) estimate number of servlet sessions, default 23191
servlet_session_timeout 800, (bank/ecom) servlet session timeout, default 600
cache_replacement lru, (sup/ecom) least recently used policy for file replacement, default random
direct_io_size 1048576 (support) read buffer size for direct IO, default 65536
write_chunk_size 1048576 (support) max. number of bytes to send to a client at one time, default 65536
disk_worker_count 68, (support) number of threads to read data from disk for large files, default 21
fast_read 1, (support) enable better read when IO wait time is long, default 0
;host; testserver:80
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
access_log access_port80.log
error_log error_port80.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:443
document_root /root/sw2005/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/webapps
ssl_key_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.key
ssl_cert_file /root/sw2005/httpd/etc/key-cert/sample1024.certificate
ssl_session_max 74931
ssl_session_timeout 0
access_log access_port443.log
error_log error_port443.log
access_log_format commonlog
;file; /
cgi_type gateway
cgi_regex .*jsp
cgi_listener localhost/8080
;/file;
;/host;
;host; testserver:9090
admin_server yes
;file; /
home_page home.cgi
auth_type basic
auth_name Administrative Web Server
auth_user_file /root/sw2005/httpd/conf/password
cgi_type module
cgi_where internal
cgi_regex .*cgi
;/file;
;/host;
1024-bit SSL key and cert generated by Rock Webserver admin console and used for this workload

HTTP Script Notes

SPEC-provided JSP scripts used without modification
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is used as JSP engine
JAVA_OPTS = -Xms4000m -Xmx4000m -Xss512k -Xcompactexplicitgc -server -d64, optimize garbage collection for applications and set JVM heap size to 4000MB, set stack size to 512KB
server.xml tuning:
maxThreads=15000, max number of sessions, default 150
minSpareThreads=2048, number of threads created when connector starts, default 25
maxSpareThreads=2048, max number of unused threads allowed, default 75
acceptCount=10000, max queue length for connection requests, default 100
maxHttpHeaderSize=8192, max size of HTTP header, default 4096
connectionTimeout=0, msec connector will wait for request URI line to be presented, default 20000
maxKeepAliveRequest=-1, allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests, default 100
disableUploadTimeout=true, allow servlet container to use a longer connection timeout, default false
Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 is supported by Covalent Technologies

Client Notes

ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -Xss256k -Xcompactexplicitgc specwebclient

BESIM Notes

BESIM is a physically separate machine
ulimit -n 1000000, sets number of open files, default 1024
ulimit -u 1000000, sets max user processes, default 7168
Apache using mod_fastcgi
Apache httpd.conf:
StartServer 100, specifies the number of child server processes that will be created by Apache on start-up, default 5
MinSpareServers 250, specifies the minimum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 5
MaxSpareServers 1500, specifies the maximum number of idle child server processes for Apache, which is not handling a request, default 10
MaxClients 1500, sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that can be supported, no more than this number of child server processes will be created, default 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 0, specifies the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle (0 unlimited), default 0
KeepAlive on, if set to On, specifies enabling persistent connections on this web server, default off
KeepAliveTimeout 600, specifies how much time, in seconds, Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection, default 15
ServerLimit 1500, sets max configured value for MaxClients, default 16
No additional fcgi tuning is implemented

Other Notes

Errors for Support Workload

Quality of Service Errors

No QOS Errors Found

Validation Errors

No Validation Errors Found

For questions about this result, please contact the submitter: IBM

First published at SPEC.org on 18-Jul-2006