SPECweb99 Result

Hewlett-Packard Company:	HP ProLiant DL580 G2
Red Hat:	RHCA 3.2.14-1

SPECweb99 = 8500

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	8500
2	8500
3	8500
Median	8500

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Jul-2004
HTTP Software	Jul-2004
Operating System	Jul-2004
Supplemental System	Jul-2004

Hardware

Vendor Hewlett-Packard Company

Model HP ProLiant DL580 G2

Processor 3000MHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 4 cores, 4 chips, 1 core/chip

Primary Cache 12K micro-ops I + 8KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 512KB(I+D) on chip

Other Cache 4096KB(I+D) on chip L3

Memory 32GB

Disk Subsystem 4x146GB SCSI (15K rpm)
(1 Hardware RAID 0 drive)
28x36.4GB SCSI (15K rpm)
(1 Hardware RAID 0 drive)

Disk Controllers HP Smart Array 5i Plus
HP Smart Array 6402

Other Hardware HP ProCurve 2848

Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 3.0 Update 2

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTP Software

Vendor Red Hat

HTTP Software RHCA 3.2.14-1

API RHCA user API

Server Cache None

Log Mode Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Aug-2004
Tested By	Hewlett-Packard Company
SPEC License	3

Network

# of Controllers 4

Network Controllers 4 NC7170

# of Nets 8

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 16

Model HP ProLiant DL360 G3

Processor 3.06GHz Intel Pentium III

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

Memory 512MB

Network Controller 2 Integrated NC7781

Operating System Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 3.0 Update 1

Compiler gcc 3.23

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 8500

Fileset Size (MB) 27318.24

Notes

SUT Notes

Hyper-Threading enabled
HP Proliat DL580 G2 - System ROM: P27 05/02/2004
HP Smart Array 5i Plus Firmware: 2.58
1 partition for OS and logs
Disk Controller Cache set to 100% write, default 50% read and 50% write
HP Smart Array 6402 Firmware: 1.92
Disk Controller Cache option: 256MB
Disk Controller Cache set to 100% read, default 50% read and 50% write
1 partition for fileset

Operating System Notes

Tuning parameters:
ulimit -n 10000, set number of open files to 10000, default 8192
net.core.hot_list_length=300000, maximm number of skb-heads to be cached, default 128
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000, set TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1, allows processes to bind to non-local IP adresses
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0, turn SACK support off, default on
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0, turn TCP window scaling support off, default on
net.core.optmem_max=10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 10240
net.core.rmem_default=131071, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_max=131071, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default=10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max=10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000, number of unprocessed input packets before kernel starts dropping them, default 300
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP read-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP write-buffer space allocatable, default 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem=10000000 10000000 10000000, maximum TCP buffer space allocatable, default 195584 196096 196608
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default on
timer irq tied to CPU4 & CPU5
cciss0 irq tied to CPU4
cciss1 irq tied to CPU5

HTTP Software Notes

net.tux.cgiroot=/, cgi root check; default /var/www/tux/cgiroot/
net.tux.cgi_uid=99, userid for cgi scripts; default -1
net.tux.cgi_gid=99, groupid for cgi scripts; default -1
net.tux.mode_allowed=255, allowed file permission bits, default 4
net.tux.mode_forbidden=2, forbidden file permission bits, default 0
net.tux.documentroot=/web, document root for web server, default /var/www/tux
net.tux.logging=1, enable logging, default off
net.tux.max_backlog = 3000, maximum per-listening-socket TCP backlog size, default 2048
net.tux.generate_last_mod = 0
net.tux.generate_etags = 0

HTTP API Notes

Dynamic API: HP-20040724.zip
Flag description in HP-20030317-APIFlags.txt

Network Notes

txqueuelen=20000, transmit queue length, default 100
1 NIC irq tied to one processor

Client Notes

net.ipv4.ip_local_range=1024 65535
The alternate performance neutral source "specweb99_1.02_virtual_client" was used
Virtual clients per client machine used: 1

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See Above
The alternate performance neutral manager "manager.rcp" was used

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	8500	100.0%	24698.9	344.1	2.91	346.5
2	8500	100.0%	24720.9	343.8	2.91	346.9
3	8500	100.0%	24704.2	344.0	2.91	346.7

Tue Aug 17 12:20:16 2004

First published at SPEC.org on 17-Aug-2004