Amazon EC2 m8a.metal-24xl 353793 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM max-jOPS
121063 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM critical-jOPS
Tested by: Infobell IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Test Sponsor: Infobell IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Test location: Bengaluru,India Test date: November 25, 2025
SPEC license #: 6723 Hardware Availability: October-2025 Software Availability: October-2025 Publication: Thu Jan 15 15:46:05 EST 2026
Benchmark Results Summary
 
Overall Throughput RT curve
Overall SUT (System Under Test) Description
VendorAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Vendor URLhttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m8a/
System SourceSingle Supplier
System DesignationServer Rack
Total Systems1
All SUT Systems IdenticalYES
Total Nodes1
All Nodes IdenticalYES
Nodes Per System1
Total Chips1
Total Cores96
Total Threads96
Total Memory Amount (GB)384
Total OS Images1
SW EnvironmentNon-virtual
 
Hardware hw_1
NameAmazon EC2 m8a.metal-24xl
VendorAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Vendor URLhttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m8a/
AvailableOctober-2025
Modelm8a.metal-24xl
Form FactorNone
CPU NameAMD EPYC 9R45 96-Core Processor (Max frequency 4.5 GHz)
CPU Characteristics96 core, 2.6 Ghz, 384MB L3 Cache
Number of Systems1
Nodes Per System1
Chips Per System1
Cores Per System96
Cores Per Chip96
Threads Per System96
Threads Per Core1
Version1.0
CPU Frequency (MHz)2600
Primary Cache32KB(I) + 48KB(D) per core
Secondary Cache1MB (I+D) per core
Tertiary Cache384MB (I+D) on chip per chip
Other CacheNone
Disk1x 500GB NVMe PCIe Gen5.0
File Systemxfs
Memory Amount (GB)384
# and size of DIMM(s)1 x 384GB
Memory DetailsDDR5 6400 MT/s
# and type of Network Interface Cards (NICs)None
Power Supply Quantity and Rating (W)None
Other HardwareNone
Cabinet/Housing/EnclosureNone
Shared DescriptionNone
Shared CommentNone
Notes
  • NA: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
  • Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
  • Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
Other Hardware network_1
NameNone
VendorNone
Vendor URLNone
VersionNone
AvailableNone
BitnessNone
NotesNone
Operating System os_1
NameRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 (Plow)
VendorRHEL
Vendor URLhttps://www.redhat.com/
Version5.14.0-570.41.1.el9_6.x86_64
AvailableMay-2025
Bitness64
NotesNone
Java Virtual Machine jvm_1
NameOracle Java SE 25.0.1
VendorOracle
Vendor URLhttp://oracle.com/
VersionJava HotSpot 64-bit Server VM, version 25.0.1
AvailableOctober-2025
Bitness64
NotesNone
Other Software other_1
NameNone
VendorNone
Vendor URLNone
VersionNone
AvailableNone
BitnessNone
NotesNone
Hardware
OS Images os_Image_1(1)
Hardware Description hw_1
Number of Systems 1
SW Environment non-virtual
Tuning None
Notes None
OS Image os_Image_1
JVM Instances jvm_Ctr_1(1), jvm_Backend_1(12), jvm_TxInjector_1(12)
OS Image Description os_1
Tuning

  • tuned-adm profile throughput-performance
  • ulimit -n 1024000

  • echo 96000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
  • echo 20000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns
  • echo 40000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_migration_cost_ns
  • echo 810000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
  • echo 200000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns
  • echo 9000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_nr_migrate
  • echo 10000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
  • echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
  • echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
  • echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
  • echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
  • echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing
  • echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat
  • echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
  • echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag

Notes None
JVM Instance jvm_Ctr_1
Parts of Benchmark Controller
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms2g -Xmx2g -Xmn1536m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=1 -XX:CICompilerCount=2

Tuning

Used numactl to interleave memory on all CPUs

  • numactl --interleave=all

Notes None
JVM Instance jvm_Backend_1
Parts of Benchmark Backend
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms26g -Xmx26g -Xmn24g -XX:AllocatePrefetchInstr=2 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=8 -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=2m -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+UseLargePages -XX:SurvivorRatio=12 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=95 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:InlineSmallCode=11k -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100 -XX:LoopUnrollLimit=200 -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:TLABAllocationWeight=2 -XX:ThreadStackSize=140 -XX:CompileThresholdScaling=120 -XX:CICompilerCount=4 -XX:AutoBoxCacheMax=32 -XX:OnStackReplacePercentage=100 -XX:TLABSize=1m -XX:MinTLABSize=1m -XX:-ResizeTLAB -XX:TLABWasteTargetPercent=1 -XX:TLABWasteIncrement=1 -XX:YoungPLABSize=1m -XX:OldPLABSize=1m

Tuning

Used numactl to affinitize each Backend JVM to 8 Core/ 8 Threads

  • Group1: --physcpubind=0-7 --localalloc
  • Group2: --physcpubind=8-15 --localalloc
  • Group3: --physcpubind=16-23 --localalloc
  • Group4: --physcpubind=24-31 --localalloc
  • Group5: --physcpubind=32-39 --localalloc
  • Group6: --physcpubind=40-47 --localalloc
  • Group7: --physcpubind=48-55 --localalloc
  • Group8: --physcpubind=56-63 --localalloc
  • Group9: --physcpubind=64-71 --localalloc
  • Group10: --physcpubind=72-79 --localalloc
  • Group11: --physcpubind=80-87 --localalloc
  • Group12: --physcpubind=88-95 --localalloc

Notes None
JVM Instance jvm_TxInjector_1
Parts of Benchmark TxInjector
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms2g -Xmx2g -Xmn1536m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=1 -XX:CICompilerCount=2

Tuning

Used numactl to affinitize each Backend JVM to 8 Core/ 8 Threads

  • Group1: --physcpubind=0-7 --localalloc
  • Group2: --physcpubind=8-15 --localalloc
  • Group3: --physcpubind=16-23 --localalloc
  • Group4: --physcpubind=24-31 --localalloc
  • Group5: --physcpubind=32-39 --localalloc
  • Group6: --physcpubind=40-47 --localalloc
  • Group7: --physcpubind=48-55 --localalloc
  • Group8: --physcpubind=56-63 --localalloc
  • Group9: --physcpubind=64-71 --localalloc
  • Group10: --physcpubind=72-79 --localalloc
  • Group11: --physcpubind=80-87 --localalloc
  • Group12: --physcpubind=88-95 --localalloc

Notes None
max-jOPS = jOPS passed before the First Failure
Pass/Fail Pass Pass Pass Fail Fail
jOPS 345565 349679 353793 357907 362021
critical-jOPS = Geomean ( jOPS @ 10000; 25000; 50000; 75000; 100000; SLAs )
Response time percentile is 99-th
SLA (us) 10000 25000 50000 75000 100000 Geomean
jOPS 76107 103434 124238 149274 178130 121063
  Percentile
  10-th 50-th 90-th 95-th 99-th 100-th
500us 12342 / 16455 4114 / 8228 - / 4114 - / 4114 - / 4114 - / 4114
1000us 57594 / 61708 16455 / 20569 8228 / 12342 8228 / 12342 4114 / 8228 - / 4114
5000us 213921 / 218035 94619 / 98733 65822 / 69936 57594 / 61708 45253 / 49366 4114 / 8228
10000us 226263 / 230377 176896 / 181010 119302 / 123416 106961 / 111074 74050 / 78164 16455 / 12342
25000us 238604 / 242718 226263 / 230377 193352 / 197466 172783 / 168669 106961 / 82277 16455 / 12342
50000us 238604 / 242718 230377 / 234491 209807 / 213921 193352 / 197466 127530 / 111074 16455 / 12342
75000us 242718 / 246832 234491 / 238604 218035 / 222149 205693 / 209807 156327 / 131644 16455 / 12342
100000us 246832 / 250946 238604 / 242718 226263 / 230377 218035 / 222149 189238 / 152213 16455 / 12342
200000us 287971 / 267402 250946 / 255060 238604 / 242718 238604 / 242718 230377 / 197466 123416 / 28797
500000us 345565 / 349679 287971 / 292085 271515 / 275629 267402 / 271515 259174 / 255060 230377 / 82277
1000000us 353793 / - 349679 / 353793 337337 / 341451 329110 / 333223 316768 / 320882 250946 / 226263
Probes jOPS / Total jOPS
Request Mix Accuracy
Note
(Actual % in the Mix - Expected % in the Mix) must be within:
'Main Tx' limit of +/-5.0% for the requests whose expected % in the mix is >= 10.0%
'Minor Tx' limit of +/-1.0% for the requests whose expected % in the mix is < 10.0%
There were no non-critical failures in Response Time curve building
Delay between status pings
IR/PR Accuracy
This section lists properties only set by user
Property Name Default Controller Group1.Backend.beJVM Group1.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group10.Backend.beJVM Group10.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group11.Backend.beJVM Group11.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group12.Backend.beJVM Group12.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group2.Backend.beJVM Group2.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group3.Backend.beJVM Group3.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group4.Backend.beJVM Group4.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group5.Backend.beJVM Group5.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group6.Backend.beJVM Group6.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group7.Backend.beJVM Group7.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group8.Backend.beJVM Group8.TxInjector.txiJVM1 Group9.Backend.beJVM Group9.TxInjector.txiJVM1
specjbb.comm.connect.client.pool.size 256 150 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170 256 170
specjbb.comm.connect.selector.runner.count 0 10 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 5
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.connect 60000 900000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.read 60000 800000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.write 60000 800000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000
specjbb.comm.connect.worker.pool.max 256 150 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200 256 200
specjbb.comm.connect.worker.pool.min 1 16 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
specjbb.controller.maxir.maxFailedPoints 3 1
specjbb.customerDriver.threads 64 {probe=130, saturate=300, service=160}
specjbb.forkjoin.workers 96 {Tier1=650, Tier2=35, Tier3=120}
specjbb.group.count 1 12
specjbb.mapreducer.pool.size 96 10
specjbb.txi.pergroup.count 1 1
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Level: COMPLIANCE
Check Agent Result
Check properties on compliance All PASSED
 
Level: CORRECTNESS
Check Agent Result
Compare SM and HQ Inventory All PASSED
High-bound (max attempted) is 411387 IR
High-bound (settled) is 368791 IR