SPEC SFS 1 Baseline Summary

097.LADDIS (Volume 6, Issue 4, December 1994)

Sun Microsystems Inc.


SPARCcenter 2000E (10 CPUs)
Throughput: 

     NFS         Average       
     Throughput  NFS           
     SPECnfs_A93 Response Time 
     Ops/Sec     Milliseconds  
     ----------- ------------- 
     400         14.1          
     792         15.9          
     1199        18.7          
     1595        19.1          
     2001        20.3          
     2411        22.6          
     2814        24.6          
     3220        27.3          
     3625        30.5          
     4028        33.7          
     4385        40.8
SPEC SFS 1 Baseline Result: 
   4385 SPECnfs_A93 Ops/Sec @ 40.8 msec ==> 439 SPECnfs_A93 Users

Server Hardware 
CPU, Memory, & Power

Model Number:               SPARCcenter 2000E

CPU:                        60MHz SuperSPARC

Number of CPUs:             10

Primary Cache:              20KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache:            2MB(I+D) off chip per CPU

Other Cache:                None

Memory:                     1GB

UPS:                        None

Other Hardware:             None



Server Software

OS Version:                 Solaris 2.4

Other Software:             None

File System:                UFS



Load Generators(LGs)

Number of Load Generators:     40

Processes Per Load Generator:  4

Biod_Max_Reads:                2

Biod_Max_Writes:               3



Disk Subsystem & Filesystems (Full Configuration Follows)

# of Disk Controllers:      15

# of Disks:                 81

# of File Systems:          82



Network Subsystem (Full Configuration Follows)

# of Net Controllers:       5

# of Networks:              20

Type of Network:            Ethernet



Server Tuning (Also see Notes/Tuning below)

Buffer Cache Size:          Dynamic

# of NFS Daemons:           300

Fileset Size:               26.4GB



Hardware Availability:      Sep-94

Software Availability:      Aug-94



License #:  6

Tested :    Sep-94

By:         Sun

Of:         Mountain View, CA
Notes/Summary Of Tuning Parameters 
The adb tool was used to enable UDP checksumming on the load generators.

adb -w /vmunix /dev/kmem

udp_cksum/W 1

udp_cksum?W 1



UDP checksums are enabled by default on the server running Solaris 2.x

maxusers=32                    ufs_ninode=64000

ncsize=64000               bufhwm=35000

autoup=600                 tune_t_fsflushr=600

IGNORE_KERNEL_PREEMPTION=1 npts=8192
Detailed Server Description 
Network Subsystem

5 SBus Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC)

20 Ethernets (N01-N20): 2 LGs each





Disk Subsystem & Filesystems

Ctl 01: FSBE Ethernet/SCSI controller

                Disk:  Sun 2.1GB

        Contents:  OS, swap (2 file systems)

Ctl 02-15:  DWIS (SBus Diff/Fast/Wide Intelligent SCSI-2 HA)

                All Disks:  Sun 2.9GB

Ctl 02: Disks 01-06, F01-F06    Ctl 03: Disks 07-12, F07-F12 

Ctl 04: Disks 13-18, F13-F18    Ctl 05: Disks 19-24, F19-F24 

Ctl 06: Disks 25-30, F24-F30    Ctl 07: Disks 31-36, F31-F36 

Ctl 08: Disks 37-42, F37-F42    Ctl 09: Disks 43-48, F43-F48 

Ctl 10: Disks 49-54, F49-F54    Ctl 11: Disks 55-60, F55-F60 

Ctl 12: Disks 61-66, F61-F66    Ctl 13: Disks 67-72, F67-F72 

Ctl 14: Disks 73-78, F73-F78    Ctl 15: Disks 79-80, F79-F80 





Detailed Load Generator (LG) Description

 Load Generator Type:  LG1

Model:            SPARCstation 2

# of CPUs:        1

Main Mem          32MB

OS:               SunOS 4.1.3

Compiler:         /bin/cc

     

 Load Generator Type:  LG2

Model:            SPARCstation 10/40

# of CPUs:        1

Main Mem          48MB

OS:               SunOS 4.1.3

Compiler:         /bin/cc





Testbed Configuration

       Load Generator Load Generator         Target         Filesystem
       Number         Type           Network Filesystems    Mount Options
       -------------- -------------- ------- -------------- -------------
       7/27           LG1/LG1        N04/N14 F62,F68,F74,F80 Default
       8/28           LG1/LG1        N04/N14 F03,F09,F15,F21 Default
       9/29           LG1/LG1        N05/N15 F27,F33,F39,F45 Default
       10/30          LG1/LG1        N05/N15 F51,F57,F63,F69 Default
       11/31          LG1/LG1        N06/N16 F75,F04,F10,F16 Default
       12/32          LG1/LG1        N06/N16 F22,F28,F34,F40 Default
       13/33          LG1/LG1        N07/N17 F46,F52,F58,F64 Default
       14/34          LG1/LG1        N07/N17 F70,F76,F05,F11 Default
       15/35          LG1/LG1        N08/N18 F17,F23,F29,F35 Default
       16/36          LG1/LG1        N08/N18 F41,F47,F53,F59 Default
       17/37          LG1/LG1        N09/N19 F65,F71,F77,F06 Default
       18/38          LG1/LG1        N09/N19 F12,F18,F24,F30 Default
       19/39          LG1/LG1        N10/N20 F36,F42,F48,F54 Default





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