SPEC SFS 1 Baseline Summary

097.LADDIS (Volume 5, Issue 3, September 1993)


Sun Microsystems Inc.

SPARCserver 1000 (8 CPUs)

Throughput:

       NFS         Average       
       Throughput  NFS           
       SPECnfs_A93 Response Time 
       Ops/Sec     Milliseconds  
       ----------- ------------- 
       31          7.7           
       129         13.2          
       225         13.6          
       323         14.4          
       420         15.0          
       516         15.8          
       614         16.7          
       710         17.4          
       806         17.7          
       899         18.7          
       1000        20.1          
       1097        21.4          
       1195        23.1          
       1260        24.6          
       1325        27.8          
       1400        31.2          
       
SPEC SFS 1 Baseline Result:
   1400 SPECnfs_A93 Ops/Sec @ 31.2 msec ==> 140 SPECnfs_A93 Users

Server Hardware
CPU, Memory, & Power
Model Number: SPARCserver 1000
CPU: 50MHz SuperSPARC
Number of CPUs: 8
Metadata Cache: 20KBI+16KBD on chip
Other Cache: 1MB(I+D) off chip
Host Processor: None
Memory: 512MB
UPS: See Disk Subsystem (page 2)
Other Hardware: FDDI
Server Software
OS & Version: Solaris 2.3 Alpha
File System: UFS
Other Software: SUNWbf FDDI/S 2.0 w/ #101099-01

Load Generators(LGs)
Number of Load Generators: 4
Processes Per Load Generator: 8
Biod_Max_Reads: 3
Biod_Max_Writes: 3

Disk Subsystem & Filesystems (Full Configuration Follows)
# of Controllers: 9
# of Disks: 34
# of File Systems: 32 (F1 thru F32)

Network Subsystem (Full Configuration Follows)
# of Controllers: 2
# of Networks: 2 (N1 thru N2)
Type of Network: FDDI

Server Tuning (Also see Notes/Tuning below)
Buffer Cache Size: Dynamic
# of NFS Daemons: 79
Fileset Size: 7.8GB

Hardware Availability: May-93
Software Availability: Oct-93

License #: 6
Tested : May-93
By: Sun
Of: Mountain View, CA

Notes/Summary Of Tuning Parameters
maxusers=32, nhbuf=256, bf_nbufs=2048
ufs_ninode=32768, p_nbuf=2048, bf_nrmds1=256
ncsize=32768, bufhwm=20480, disk write cache=on
nsegkp=1024, second level prefetch=off

Detailed Server Description
Network Subsystem
FDDI/s Sbus Interface Card
1 Synoptics Model 2914 FDDI Concentrator
1 FDDI (N1) : 2 Load Generators
FDDI/s Sbus Interface Card
1 Synoptics Model 2914 FDDI Concentrator
1 FDDI (N2) : 2 Load Generators

Disk Subsystem & Filesystems
Controller 1: On Board Controller
Disk: 535 MB Internal
Contents: OS, code
Disk: 535 MB Internal
Contents: Swap
Controller 2-4: On Board Controller
Disks: 3 Sun 4.2GB Multi-Disk Pack (four disks each)
Contents: F1-F12
Controller 5-9: FSBE Lance Enet/SCSI Controllers
Disks: 5 Sun 4.2GB Multi-Disk Pack (four disks each)
Contents: F13-F32
UPS 1: Costco 250VA UPS (filesystems F1-F16)
UPS 2: Costco 250VA UPS (filesystems F17-F32)

Detailed Load Generator (LG) Description
       Load Generator Type: LG1                          
       Model:                   SPARCstation 10 Model 41 
       # of CPUs:               1                        
       Main Mem.:               32MB                     
       OS:                      SunOS 4.1.3              
       Compiler:                /bin/cc                  
       

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       Load Generator Type: LG6  
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Testbed Configuration
       Load Generator Load Generator         Target      Filesystem    
       Number         Type           Network Filesystems Mount Options 
       -------------- -------------- ------- ----------- ------------- 
       1              LG1            N1      F1-F8       Default       
       2              LG1            N1      F8-F16      Default       
       3              LG1            N2      F17-F24     Default       
       4              LG1            N2      F25-F32     Default       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                      

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