Performance
Mail Server Performance
SPECmail_Ent2009
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
1.7x
Sun Java Messaging Server
Baseline 1.0x
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM, a 4-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter, a SmallTree 6-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter and 5 Promise VTrak E-class RAID arrays, each with 16 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server. Apple testing produced results of 28,887 SPECmail_Ent2009 sessions per hour. Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 produced results of 17,316 SPECmail_Ent2009 sessions per hour. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECmail2009 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. For the latest SPECmail2009 results, visit www.spec.org/osg/mail2009. Benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple and Sun testing and were published on www.spec.org from March 2009 to June 2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
File Server Performance (SMB)
SPECsfs2008_cifs
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
2.3x
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard
Baseline 1.0x
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM, a 4-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter, a SmallTree 6-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter and 4 Promise VTrak E-class RAID arrays, each with 16 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running a shipping version of Leopard Server v10.5.7 and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server. Testing with Leopard Server v10.5.7 reported 19,313 SPECsfs2008_cifs ops per second with an overall response time of 1.89 ms and testing with Snow Leopard Server reported 44,347 SPECsfs2008_cifs ops per second with an overall response time of 1.89 ms. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECsfs2008 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
File Server Performance (NFS)
SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
2.0x
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard
Baseline 1.0x
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM, a 4-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter, a SmallTree 6-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter and 4 Promise VTrak E-class RAID arrays, each with 16 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running a shipping version of Leopard Server v10.5.7 and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server. Testing with Leopard Server v10.5.7 reported 9189 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 ops per second with an overall response time of 2.18 ms and testing with Snow Leopard Server reported 18,784 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 ops per second with an overall response time of 2.67 ms. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECsfs2008 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
File Server Performance (AFP)
AFPBench
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
1.3x
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard
Baseline 1.0x
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a preproduction 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 24GB RAM, a 2-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter, a Promise VTrak E-class RAID array with dual controllers and 16 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running a shipping version of Leopard Server v10.5.7 and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server. Results are based on the AFPBench benchmark, using up to 32 physical client systems and making requests simulating typical home directory usage. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
Java Server Performance
SPECjbb2005
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard
1.3x
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard
Baseline 1.0x
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM running a shipping version of Leopard Server v10.5.7 (SPECjbb2005 bops = 205,224, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 51,306) and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server (SPECjbb2005 bops = 269,977, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 67,494). SPEC and SPECjbb2005 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
