SPECweb99_SSL Result

Sun Microsystems:	Sun Fire V40z
Zeus Technology Ltd.:	Zeus Web Server 4.3r1 (64 bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 8832

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	8832
2	8832
3	8832
Median	8832

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Oct-2005
HTTPS Software	Jan-2005
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	May-2005

Hardware

Vendor Sun Microsystems

Model Sun Fire V40z

Processor AMD Opteron 880, 2.4 GHz

# Processors 8 cores, 4 chips, 2 cores/chip

Primary Cache 64KBI + 64KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 1MB per core on chip

Other Cache none

Memory 32 GB DDR400

Disk Subsystem 3 x 73GB Internal ULTRA320 SCSI

Disk Controllers Onboard SCSI

Other Hardware 2 Cisco Systems Catalyst 3750G-24T Switch

Software

Operating System SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86_64 SP1

File System ext2

Other Software SuSE kernel patch-9962 Release 2030321

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Ltd.

HTTPS Software Zeus Web Server 4.3r1 (64 bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for Dynamic content

Server Cache none

Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Sep-2005
Tested By	Sun Microsystems
SPEC License	6

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Intel Pro/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter

# 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 24

Model Sun Fire V240

Processor 1280MHz UltraSPARC IIIi

# of Processors 2

Memory 8192MB

Network Controller Sun GigaSwift Ethernet

Operating System Solaris 9 09/04

Compiler Sun Workshop 6 update 2 C 5.3

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 8832

Fileset Size (MB) 28382.08

Notes

SUT Notes

2 U320 10K 73GB SCSI disk for OS, swap, and access log
1 U320 10K 73GB SCSI disk for fileset and post log
Intel PRO/1000 Quad port NICs installed in slots 4 and 6.

Operating System Notes

One NIC irq bound per CPU, default round-robin
irqbalancer disabled
powersaved disabled
Bound each Zeus process to CPU corresponding to NIC irq binding with taskset
timer irq bound to CPU 1
ulimit -n 500000, sets number of open files, default 1024
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000 via ifconfig, default 1000
Each NIC's RX descriptor size set to 4096, default 256
log, & fileset mounted with 'noatime, nodiratime, noacl', no inode access time updating, no access control lists
For information on SuSE patch-9962 Release 2030321(2.6.5-7.151-smp) refer to
"http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/psdb/2558830537429cdedb543926fd6344a8.html:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, kernel should not attempt to forward packets. Off by default, default 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enables source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0, turns TCP timestamp support off, default 1
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 210, time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, default 60
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
vm.max_map_count = 131072, maximum number of active map areas, default 65536
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default receive socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 65535
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, default 10240
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 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, maximum TCP buffer space, default 31744 32256 32768
fs.file-max = 1100000, maximum number of open files, default 1024

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus Configuration
runningsite/wstest: bindaddr IP addr. 1 - IP addr. 8
global.cfg:
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!unique_bind yes
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 597585
tuning!cache_flush_interval 31536000
tuning!cache_small_file 4096
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 27769803776
tuning!cache_stat_expire 31536000
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!keepalive_timeout 3600
tuning!listen_queue_size 10240
tuning!maxaccept 4096
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!num_cgid 8
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 2617
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
See SUN-20050815-Zeus-tunings.txt for a description of the Zeus tuning parameters.

HTTP API Notes

Zeus PEPP configured with command: ./Configure --ssl=yes
Zeus PEPP compiled with default gcc (v3.3.3-43.28)

Client Notes

set sq_max_size=0, set hires_tick=1
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 2048
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000
Client code generated with: CFLAGS=-xO4 -xchip=ultra -xarch=v8plusa
./configure --enable-posix-threads --enable-gethostbyname_r --enable-pthread_scope_system --enable-rlimit --enable-safe-usleep=no

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above.
Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
Client Tuning Disclosure: Sun-20020610.txt
2 Cisco Systems Catalyst 3750G-24T Switch used for 8 networks

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	8832	100.0%	25192.1	350.4	2.85	342.0
2	8832	100.0%	24989.2	353.2	2.83	339.2
3	8832	100.0%	24891.6	354.6	2.82	338.1

Tue Oct 11 13:52:07 2005