SPECweb99 Result

Dell:	PowerEdge 2500
Red Hat:	TUX 2.0

SPECweb99 = 3222

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	3218
2	3222
3	3224
Median	3222

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Apr-2001
HTTP Software	Jan-2001
Operating System	Sep-2000
Supplemental System	Jan-2001

Hardware

Vendor Dell

Model PowerEdge 2500

Processor 1000MHz Pentium III

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 16KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 256KB ATC

Other Cache None

Memory 4 GB

Disk Subsystem 1 9GB 10K, 5 18gig 15K RPM drives

Disk Controllers Onboard Adaptec 7899

Other Hardware 4 Alteon ACEswitch 180

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux 7.0 Threaded Web Server Add-On

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software TUX 2.0

API TUX user API

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Mar-2001
Tested By	Dell
SPEC License	55

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers Alteon AceNIC 1000SX

# of Nets 4

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 20

Model Dell Precision 410

Processor 450MHz Pentium II

# of Processors 2

Memory 128MB

Network Controller Alteon AceNIC 1000SX

Operating System Windows 2000 Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 3225

Fileset Size (MB) 10438.32

Notes

SUT Notes

1 disk for OS and logs
5 disk software RAID1 mirror for fileset.

Operating System Notes

Two NIC IRQs bound per CPU.
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 10000 via ifconfig, default 1000
File systems mounted with "noatime,check=none"; no inode access time updating, no check on mount
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turns SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/default/max TCP read buffer, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP write buffer, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
net.core.hot_list_length = 10000, maximum number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
See .config file for kernel build information

HTTP Software Notes

Each TUX thread's listening address bound to 2 NICs' associated networks
net.tux.logging = 1, turns on logging of requests, default 0
net.tux.logentry_align_order = 0, sets alignment of log entry records in logfile, default 5
net.tux.mode_allowed = 255, allowed file-permission bits, default 00004
net.tux.mode_forbidden = 2, forbidden file-permission bits, default 00000

Client Notes

Tcpip/Parameters/MaxUserPort = 0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534.

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	3218	99.8%	9023.4	357.0	2.80	334.2
2	3222	99.9%	9040.7	356.3	2.80	335.1
3	3224	100.0%	9021.9	357.0	2.80	334.6

Wed Apr 13 16:35:02 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 03-Apr-2001